Self Quotes

If you happened to be born on third base, you didn't rub it in the face of the guy who wasn't even born in the stadium. Self-interest was generally checked at the door with your coat and hat.

If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.

I do entertain a lot of negative thoughts and I haven't got any self-belief. But I haven't done bad for someone without any self-belief.

Work, ah! that talisman to guard one against one's self.

But poetry is not to be lived, except for the few to whom it is more important than self-preservation.

Most of the time, writing is a lot of fun, and not a small amount of self-medication.

Self-awareness can't be built on looking at our pluses and minuses before we look at the most basic essence of what we are.

The slavery of identity comes from our refusal to face ourselves. So we must begin the exploration to self-awareness. Where do we start?

We can use doubt to self analyze. A measure of doubt can help us to attain self-honesty. But, like too much water, too much doubt will also destroy us.

If we cover a court case involving a murderer, we would still seek out the side of that murderer, even as we realize that what people say is going to be self-serving.

If thou has not seen the devil, look at thine own self.

I don't have a publicist. I don't go to events or self-promote, or endorse things, or whatever it is people are meant to do in that world.

I don't want to own her, but I can't let her have it both ways. There is one too many of us.

I don't have an ego that makes me believe the world revolves around me. I am not self-absorbed.

It's not usually anybody else's false when you don't get what you want. Sometimes it is. There's exceptions to everything. It's usually the self-limitations that we attach to ourselves.

Just like self-interest is not selfishness, well, confidence is not a negative. Confidence is not an off-putting thing. It's, in fact, necessary for all good leaders.

Self-deception can be more comforting than self-knowledge. We like to fool ourselves.

Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty under the guidance of his widowed grandmother.

If you strip away self-effacement, charm and the spirit of mischief-qualities that make determination and ambition tolerable- you're left with a right ar**hole.

Thus another friendship was dashed on the cruel rocks amid the storm of my self-destruction.

Compassion is the ultimate expression of your highest self

Peace means loyalty to self. ... And loyalty to one's self means never a gap between thought, speech, act.

... oh, I long to prove myself by writing! The best seems to die in me when I give it up. It is the self I love--not this efficient, philanthropic self.

Not surprisingly, the chief way self-published authors get the word out about their books is through the Internet.

Like a lot of people, I've got a self-loathing streak that's alive and well. It acts as a de facto engine when I'm working, but it also has its extraordinary pitfalls, too.

By 17, I was modeling and had bought myself a flat. I've always tried to be self-sufficient.

I will plant my feet on that step where my parents put me as a child, until self-evident truth comes to light.

In this cash-rich, time-poor culture of ours, the most precious commodity we have is time...volunteering our precious time, is in this brutally self-involved world, the most truly selfless act

Many people must have looked at my life and thought I was quite fortunate. But I felt lousy about myself - and as you now know, I didn't come from a place where I had a lot of self-confidence.

I dont have the self-discipline for diets; I break rules I set for myself, so I try and eat more healthily, juice more, and avoid sugar.

We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about violent reactions.

[My work] is a love song to our mongrel selves.

A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.

Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.

I think a lot of American poets are swimming-pool Soviets. A lot of them have taken the comfortable, self-protective route too often. I know that I certainly have. That's easy to do.

I think it's increasingly hard to have deep self-knowledge without entering the darkness in some way.

What's interesting is to see us as we really are; only in this way we could arrive to the truly knowledge of one-self.

I learned that hard work and self-discipline can overcome many obstacles.

The reality of the individualis an incoherent reality and must be expressed incoherently.

I have nothing but wastes and wilds of self-translation before me for many miserable months to come.

Lick your neighbor as yourself!

All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.

No man can have much kindness for him by whom he does not believe himself esteemed, and nothing so evidently proves esteem as imitation.

Every man is of importance to himself.

Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.

The wife of a self-admirer must expect a very cold and negligent husband.

What the unpenetrating world call Humanity, is often no more than a weak mind pitying itself.

Too liberal self-accusations are generally but so many traps for acquittal with applause.

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.

I think Bush is amateurish and self-serving, and frankly, it's disgusting.