Self Quotes

Confidence is one of the sexiest things.

My mom raise me so wonderfully. She gave me self esteem and made me appreciate my flaws, as well as my strengths.

People settle for so much less because they find their identities in the world's fickle and untrue opinions. God made you royal with His blood. Live.

All of us can improve the quality of our lives if we practice the art of self-care and train our minds to think thoughts that make us feel good.

Gently resist the temptation to chase your dreams into the world; pursue them in your heart until they disappear into the Self, and leave them there.

To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their oneness.

There is always the fear of self-righteousness possessing us, the fear of arrogating to ourselves a superiority that we do not possess.

To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self.

We're here to make people feel like a million dollars, not two cents.

We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.

Whatever man loves, that is his god. For he carries it in his heart; he goes about with it night and day; he sleeps and wakes with it, be it what it may - wealth or self, pleasure or renown.

Goddess is the deep Source of creating integrity and the Self-affirming be-ing of women.

Your most important sale in life is to sell yourself to yourself.

Attention pays attention to a lot of things, but when attention pays attention to attention, then there is a stillness, and that stillness introduces you to your Self.

I don't know if there is any specific way to handle emotional pain. Loved ones, music, and self-medicating seem to help me.

If you want to become successful, seek to become a person of value

I am so hip even my errors are correct

New Orleans is one of the two most ingrown, self-obsessed little cities in the United States. (The other is San Francisco.)

A vital part of the happiness formula is self-discipline. Whoever conquers himself knows deep happiness that fills the heart with joy.

Self-realization is, in fact, the only religion. For it is the true purpose of religion, no matter how people define their beliefs.

I was addicted to amphetamines at the time I got busted, but I tend to think I was on a determined, self-destruct course that had little to do with the effect of Benzedrine.

I've never seen anyone more messed up over success than Richard Pryor. For him, it's a constant battle between success in the white world and keeping it real for his black self.

Marriage teaches you loyalty, forbearance, self-restraint, meekness, and a great many other things you wouldn't need if you had stayed single.

Your lower self sees you as the center of the universe- your higher self sees you as a cell in the body of humanity.

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.

Anger is self-immolation.

How can life be worth living, if devoid Of the calm trust reposed by friend in friend? What sweeter joy than in the kindred soul, Whose converse differs not from self-communion?

You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity and the sour sound of whining.

Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.

Nationalism and extremism ... are spreading today like a cancerous growth in the fabric of people's national self-awareness.

Valor consists in the power of self recovery.

These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.

Turn the mind inward and cease thinking of yourself as the body; thereby you will come to know that the self is ever happy. Neither grief nor misery is experienced in this state.

Happiness is not to be sought in solitude or in busy centers. It is in the Self.

Dive deep into the chambers of your heart. Find out the real, infinite 'I'. Rest there peacefully for ever and become identical with the Supreme Self.

Happiness doesn't come from money and material things, but from the self-expression they can offer you.

The ill effects of thought come about when we forget that thought is a function of our consciousness.. an ability that we as human beings have. We are the producers of our own thinking.

[The Player is] not a truthful indictment of Hollywood. It's much uglier than I portrayed it, but nobody would've been interested if I'd shown just how sadistic, cruel and self-orientated it is.

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.

The only person who is going to give you security and the life you want is you.

I am daily making myself what I am.

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.

Times of upheaval require not just more leadership but more leaders. People at all organizational levels, whether anointed or self-appointed, must be empowered to share leadership responsibilities.

That way of life against which my generation rebelled had given us grim courage, fortitude, self-discipline, a sense of individual responsibility, and a capacity for relentless hard work.

Once you conquer your selfish self, all your darkness will change to light.

It was almost as if I had a right to win. Thinking like that often seems to turn into sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Seeing into one's self-nature is seeing into nothingness. Seeing into nothingness is true seeing & eternal seeing

Efforts to ease regulations and reform the nation's tax system have helped put this self-sustaining recovery on track, The numbers prove our policies have not been wrong.