Self Quotes

It is not the body, nor the personality that is the true self. The true self is eternal. Even on the point of death we can say to ourselves, "my true self is free. I cannot be contained."

Once a depressed person becomes active and hopeful, self-esteem always improves. Bolstering self-esteem without changing hopelessness, without changing passivity, accomplishes nothing.

Self-esteem is as necessary to the spirit as food is to the body.

Keep thinking, keep interested, keep praying, keep dreaming. Be mentally sensitive at all times so that the magic word that motivates you may one day speak to your deep inner self.

Sexy at the millennium means having a solid sense of self but never taking yourself too seriously.

We hold ourselves back in ways both big and small, by lacking self-confidence, by not raising our hands, and by pulling back when we should be leaning in.

Perhaps the most important vision of all is develop a sense of self, a sense of your own destiny, a sense of unique mission and role in life.

But not forgiving yourself often becomes the root of severe self-loathing extreme self hatred and intense inhibitions. It will be next to impossible to truly start over when you feel unforgivable.

We cannot outperform our level of self-esteem.

Self worth cannot be verified by others. You are worthy because you say it is so. If you depend on others for your value it is other-worth.

It's so hard for women to be happy for one another, like genuinely happy. Once you find that, you know you've found true SELF happiness.

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.

It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.

I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.

When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

Control thought-forms are the basis of our deepest moral crisis.

No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer.

The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.

You cannot solve a problem in the same frequency in which it was created.

In the darkest hours we must believe in ourselves.

To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.

I don't believe in fashion. I believe in costume. Life is too short to be same person every day.

There are so many more important things to worry about than how you're perceived by strangers.

It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.

A wise man travels to discover himself.

Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path.

There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.

Humility is attentive patience.

Shyness is just egotism out of its depth.

I always thought I should be treated like a star.

This is the gist of what I know: Give advice and buy a foe.

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.

Humor comes from self-confidence.

It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.

It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.

The human spirit will not invest itself in a compromise.

People who repeatedly attack your confidence and self-esteem are quite aware of your potential, even if you are not.

Don't try to tell me what I am because I know what I am not

LOVE of others is the appreciation of one's self. MAY your egotism be so gigantic that you comprise mankind in your self-sympathy.

Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.

Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!

As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

There is nothing more irreligious than self-absorbed religion.

Live your life, sing your song. Not full of expectations. Not for the ovations. But for the joy of it.

I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.