Self Quotes

Self-respect to be nourished in the mind of the pupil, is one of the most valuable results of a well conducted education.

When self-important people and powerful institutions are governed by illusion, history has a way of biting back.

Self government is no less essential to the development, growth, and happiness of the individual than to the nation.

The roughest part is showing up. Once you throw yourself into the scene, it's just great fun to let it all go and not be self-conscious, and stop questioning whether you're sufficient.

What actors are good at doing is walking into a situation that should make you incredibly self-conscious and frightened and doing it anyway. That's the gig, pretending that you are comfortable.

True friendship is self-love at second-hand.

No man would, I think, exchange his existence with any other man, however fortunate. We had as lief not be, as not be ourselves.

That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.

What I mean by living to one's self is living in the world, as in it, not of it.

Golf is like life in a lot of ways - All the biggest wounds are self-inflicted.

The established order has too many self-protecting economic entities, and not enough people who yet understand what it takes to change.

I try to be self-analytical, both to outline the mistakes I made in my life and try to explain why I did, and the things that on balance I did pretty well on.

We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.

Choose a self and stand by it.

We all have a lifelong habit of inferiority to our full self..."

To give the theory plenty of 'rope' and see if it hangs itself eventually is better tactics than to choke it off at the outset b abstract accusations of self-contradiction

So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.

The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.

You can't out-perform your self-image.

If our life is not a course of humility, self-denial, renunciation of the world, poverty of spirit, and heavenly affection, we do not live the lives of Christians.

Emotions talked to you before you had words, so listen to them ... they are often more honest than the mind's remarkable ability to self deceive.

Selfishness draws men into a spiritual vacuum where, absorbed in self service, they shut out all others.

You cannot slay yourself in me, Nor I to all eternity Destroy my truest self in you.

Nobody, but nobody, is going to tell me I'm not the most. I am. I was the most when everybody else was struggling bitterly to become a little.

In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and by black night doth take away Death's second self, that seals up all in rest. -Sonnet 73

Self-love is the most inhibited sin in the canon.

So now I have confessed that he is thine, And I my self am mortgaged to thy will, My self I'll forfeit, so that other mine, Thou wilt restore to be my comfort still.

Oh! that you could turn your eyes towards the napes of your necks, and make but an interior survey of your good selves.

A scar nobly got is a good livery of honor.

It is thyself, mine own self's better part; Mine eye's clear eye, my dear heart's dearer heart; My food, my fortune, and my sweet hope's aim, My sole earth's heaven, and my heaven's claim.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared

But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel, Making a famine where abundance lies, Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel.

Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none. This above all: to thine own self be true. No legacy is so rich as honesty. Brevity is the soul of wit

The thing of courage As rous'd with rage doth sympathise, And, with an accent tun'd in self-same key, Retorts to chiding fortune.

When self-interest inclines a man to print, he should consider that the purchaser expects a pennyworth for his penny, and has reason to asperse his honesty if he finds himself deceived.

Nothing reveals character more than self-sacrifice. So the highest knowledge we have of God is through the gift of His Son.

Music study presents a natural, here-and-now route to selfknowledge and self-integration.

Men who can hear the Decalogue, and feel To self-reproach.

Not every oak has to be gnarled, every detective hard-bitten. The adjective that exists solely as a decoration is a self-indulgence for the writer and an obstacle for the reader.

No matter how I might feel about myself or my self-image, there is still a part of me that wants to fight to the end.

I hope I pass on my dad's good humor, work ethic and lack of self-seriousness. Our house was always a fun place where you'd get knocked around quickly if you took yourself too seriously.

I was always a self-proclaimed poor slider.

I don't mind being artificial sometimes, because I like veiling myself. I mean, I'm not honest or sincere: I am self-centered and narcissistic. I just want to be this entity.

Care for yourself enough to listen carefully to what you say to yourself.

The good oxymoron, to define it by a self-illustration, must be a planned inadvertency.

I try not get too self-aware when writing lyrics.

An affected laugh shows lack of self-respect in a man and lewdness in a woman. It is carelessness to go about with one's hands inside the slits in the sides of his hakama.

Overall there may be less censorship in America than in China, but censorship and self-censorship are not only from political pressure, but also pressures from other places in a society.

If I didn't self-censor, I would be in jail, and then I wouldn't be effective at all.

Novel-writing is a settling, lovely space. I call it self-indulgent - I feel mildly guilty about it.