Self Quotes

You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear.

You don't have to do anything especially worthy to create or deserve self-esteem; all you have to do is turn off that critical, haranguing, inner voice.

I've never disliked myself, and my weight has had nothing to do with my self-esteem.

Art is not just ornamental, an enhancement of life. It is a path in itself, a way out of the predictable and conventional... a map to self discovery.

By His trials, God means to purify us, to take away all our self-confidence, and our trust in each other, and bring us into implicit, humble trust in Himself.

Leaders relentlessly upgrade their team, using every encounter as an opportunity to evaluate, coach, and build self-confidence.

I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.

Without the renewed mind, we will distort the Scriptures to avoid their radical commands for self-denial, and love, and purity, and supreme satisfaction in Christ alone.

An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect.

Believe in yourself and what you feel. Your power will come from that.

The foundation of the world lies in the nation. The foundation of the nation lies in the family. The foundation of the family lies in the individual.

Sports can do so much. It's given me confidence, self-esteem, discipline, and motivation.

Good! Hang in there! It's normal! [Low self-esteem] Often it's a sign of intelligence (but don't let that go to your head haha)

Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.

Remove the Ego and Avidya (Ignorance) is gone. Look for it, the ego vanishes and the real Self alone remains.

You are meant to understand the nature of your inner self, and to manifest it outward.

Self Realization is finding That which is beyond even superconsciousness itself, beyond the mind-timeless, causeless, spaceless.

When we weren't being transcendent we specialized in self-inflicted disaster.

Self-esteem is an inner feeling: Sometimes it corresponds with outer reality, and sometimes it doesn’t.

When we see others beginning to live their authentic selves, it drives us crazy if we have not lived out our own.

I know there are some voices calling for a punitive deal that punishes Britain. That would be an act of calamitous self-harm for the countries of Europe, and it would not be the act of a friend.

I think skateboarding is hugely challenging - it teaches you self-confidence, it teaches you self-motivation, and it can be something that helps you throughout your life.

Success is total self-acceptance.

People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-esteem, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning.

The experiencing self lives its life continuously. It has moments of experience, one after the other.

The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being, as a tree comes into full blossom, or a bird into spring beauty, or a tiger into lustre.

We have to be self-critical even in context that we might be critical of, even as we - our pieces appear in it.

In old days men studied for the sake of self-improvement; nowadays men study in order to impress other people.

Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It's up to you to decide to stay parked there or to turn around and drive out.

The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth

How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself!

The social self is simply any idea, or system of ideas, drawn from the communicative life, that the mind cherishes as its own.

The Church, however, is a self-governing society, distinct from the State, having its officers and laws, and, therefore, an administrative government of its own.

What is love? The need of coming out of one's self.

We should praise the qualities we would like to see in others, declare that others possess them already, and then watch how quickly these persons will respond.

Science is not perfect. It's often misused; it's only a tool, but it's the best tool we have. Self-correcting , ever changing, applicable to everything: with this tool, we vanquish the impossible.

The self as the essence of individuality is unitemporal and unique; as an archetypal symbol it is a God-image and therefore universal and eternal.

If nothing is self-evident, nothing can be proved. Similarly if nothing is obligatory for its own sake, nothing is obligatory at all.

Self-responsibility is the core quality of the fully mature, fully functioning, self-actualizing individual.

Whatever we can't love or accept in another, is a mirror of something we can't love or accept in ourselves.

A lot of people say there is no happiness in this life and certainly there's no permanent happiness. But self-sufficiency creates happiness.

None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.

I don't really believe in any fashion rules. I think fashion is a form of self-expression. I think you can wear whatever you want!

Whatever the time or circumstances, the feeling that I am a peasant gives me a rare self-sufficiency. Indeed, the land is always there. I can go back to it at any time.

Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror.

By self-analysis you can not change your character, but you may change your mentality.

You become really ugly when you become very superficial and self-obsessed.

Self-respect is the root of discipline