Self Quotes

For self-realization, a rebel demands a strong authority, a worthy opponent, God to his Lucifer.

You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing.

It is not a sign of weakness, but a sign of high maturity, to rise to the level of self-criticism.

The Hokey Pokey. Think about it. At the end of the song, what do we learn? What is it all about?... You put your whole self in!

He who spends more than he earns is sowing the winds of needless self-indulgence from which he is sure to reap the whirlwinds of trouble and humiliation.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same.

Faith in the self-attesting Christ of Scripture is the beginning, not the end result of wisdom.

It's such a profound alienation for a person not to be at home in their own body.

Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.

Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.

I have self-actualized. Pardon me whilst I adjust my glowing halo.

Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves.

I am the most fortunate self-taught harpist and non-speaking actor who has ever lived.

Self-discovery means learning to live free!

There's a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It's not something you can give; it's something they have to build.

No matter how hard you pursue pleasure and success, there are times when you fail. No matter how fast you flee, there are times when pain catches up with you.

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being. -Henri

Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.

In 1999, I said that in about a decade we would see technologies such as self-driving cars and mobile phones that could answer your questions, and people criticized these predictions as unrealistic.

True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.

The truth is, I can’t read anything with any distance. Every book is a self-help book to me. Just having them makes me feel better.

Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.

It is a doctrine of war not to assume the enemy will not come, but rather to rely on one's readiness to meet him; not to presume that he will not attack, but rather to make one's self invincible.

Some of us have become so addicted to pointing fingers at others for all the wrong that happens in our lives that self-assessment has become synonymous with blaming the victim.

In a way, a certain amount of self-criticism is a good thing, because it keeps you humble. Realizing that no matter what success you've achieved, you can still make enemies makes you humble, too.

The subject does not belong to the world; rather, it is a limit of the world.

And she's feeling like her worth is between her legs.

About all you can do in life is be who you are.

Finding oneself was a misnomer; a self is not found but made.

Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself.

Within alpinism's narrow framework we seek transcendence and relentlessly pursue what remains hidden from us on flat ground: our true selves.

Self-awareness gives you the capacity to learn from your mistakes as well as your successes. It enables you to keep growing.

Nothing that lived and breathed was truly objective—even in a vacuum, even if all that possessed the brain was a self-immolating desire for the truth.

The Qur'an does not ask for human perfection, but rather asks that we persevere in striving for self-improvement and that we never become complacent or despondent about our progress.

I've never felt a push to be stick thin. I work out and eat healthy, so mostly it's about being in shape and having energy.

In photography we must learn to seek, not the 'picture,' not the aesthetic of tradition, but the ideal instrument of expression, the self-sufficient vehicle for education.

Love the whole world as if it were your self; then you will truly care for all things.

This is...self-knowled ge-for a man to know what he knows, and what he does not know.

I live near a remedial school. There is a sign that says, slow... children. That can't be good for their self esteem. But look of course on the positive side, they can't read it.

They say love thy neighbor as thy self , what am I supposed to do jerk him off too?

Any self-respecting entrepreneur has borrowed money from their mother at some point.

God does not lead all His servants by one road, nor in one way, nor at one time; for God is in all things; and that man is not serving God aright, who can only serve Him in his own self-chosen way.

When you are just you, without thinking or trying to say something special, just saying what is on your mind and how you feel, then there is naturally self-respect.

If somebody tells you you have ears like a donkey, pay no attention. But if two people tell you, buy yourself a saddle.

Your highest obligation to other people is to be your highest self.

When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, that's kind of a dead-end road. So I think it's a combination of self-entrapment and entrapment by society.

Be led by your talent, not by your self-loathing; those other things you just have to manage.

We hit a stride where all self-consciousness disappeared.

The best fighter is never angry.