Self Quotes
How can both Nics, the loving and considerate and generous one, and the self-obsessed and self-destructive one, be the same person?
When you realize that life isn't fair, you don't act out, you don't get overly wasted, you don't get self-indulgent. You just move forward.
With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject quite so worthy of my attention.
Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.
There is abundant reason to believe that optimism - big, little, and in between - is useful to a person because positive expectations can be self-fulfilling.
A man is ever apt to contemplate himself out of all proportion to his surroundings.
I've always been drawn to solitude, felt a kind of luxurious relief in its self-generated pace and rhythms.
The self-portrait is an act of objectifying the self and in that regard is a unique form of portraiture.
Self-knowledge is the basis of jeet kune do because it is effective not only for the individual's martial art but also for his life as a human being.
We should devote ourselves to being self-sufficient and must not depend upon the external ratings by others for our happiness.
When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don't back down and don't give up - then you're going to mystify a lot of folks.
A person full of the Holy Spirit cannot be full of self. Pride never accompanies power in the fully yielded life.
Nothing is true in self-discovery unless it is true in your own experience. This is the only protection against the robot levels of the mind.
I would step in the way of a bullet if it were aimed at my husband. It is not self-sacrifice to die protecting that which you value: If the value is great enough, you do not care to exist without it.
I do not care about my own appearance, but I would hope that people could see into my soul, and that is presented better in these photographs than in others. (On his self-portraits)
When a new truth enters the world, the first stage of reaction to it is ridicule, the second stage is violent opposition, and in the third stage, that truth comes to be regarded as self-evident.
The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement.
It's a little mad, but I believe I am many people. When I am writing a poem, I feel I am the person who should have written it.
The pure heart is one that is entirely cut away from self. To be selfless is to be pure.
For me, clothes mean self-expression. You need to have an audience and connect with people. Fashion is shared. It connects people. And we share an experience beyond the clothes.
I knew that was really the only purpose of life: to be our self, live our truth, and be the love that we are.
The rose does not have a why; it blossums without reason, forgetful of self and oblivious to our vision.
It is trying to be other than one's self that unmans one. Be your own natural self and go ahead.
Science is the only self-correcting human institution, but it also is a process that progresses only by showing itself to be wrong.
Liberty is the luxury of self-discipline, that those nations historically who have failed to discipline themselves have had discipline imposed by others.
Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.
I think KISS has always been about celebrating self-empowerment. Celebrating the idea that anything is possible with determination and hard work.
No one is self-sufficient. And it's not a one-way thing- -the generosity of spirit from one side provokes a response in kind from the other side.
Every parent's deepest wish is that their children are self sufficient, happy, and able to live a full life.
To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.
The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves.
How can love survive in such a graceless age? The trust and self assurance that lead to happiness, they're the very things we kill.
You don't have to say you love me, just be close at hand. You don't have to stay for ever, I will understand.
A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it in return from them.
Life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. What you believe about Life will be your experience of Life.
Responsible people work, earn, save, invest, make things better for self & family. Lefties call that "greed."
Icebergs behoove the soul (both being self-made from elements least visible) to see themselves: fleshed, fair, erected, indivisible.
The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self- dependence must give each individual the right to choose his own surroundings.
I would warn my brethren and sisters to never flatter persons because of their ability; for they cannot bear it. Self is easily exalted, and in consequence, persons lose their balance.
All other love is extinguished by self-love; beneficence, humanity, justice, philosophy, sink under it.