Self Quotes

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.

Transformation also means looking for ways to stop pushing yourself so hard professionally or inviting so much stress.

He who knows himself best esteems himself least.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths.

Oh blind! Oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity which spurs us so in the short mortal life and steeps us so through all eternity!

If you understand the independent worker, the self-employed professional, the freelancer, the e-lancer, the temp, you understand how work and business in the U.S. operate today.

More endearingly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self control and pride.

Limitless like the ocean are your excellent qualities.

If we ourselves remain angry and then sing world peace, it has little meaning. First, our individual self must learn peace. This we can practice. Then we can teach the rest of the world.

Some people think self-employment is risky, but the real risk lies in deriving your security from an external source.

There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is the test of their value.

self-interest usually brings injustice with it.

A company that cannot self-correct cannot thrive.

Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?

The symbols of the self arise in the depths of the body, and they express its materiality every bit as much as the perceiving consciousness. The symbol is thus a living body

The self is our life's goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality.

That fierce imprisonment in the self is but the obverse of the self-giving which is absolute reality.

Take what's useful, discard what is not.

If you ain't got socks, you ain't got much. But if you got 'em, you might as well pull 'em up. It's a statement of self-sufficiency. We should all be more self-governed.

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it's about earning approval and acceptance.

The favor of God does not bless self-promotion

Regardless of the problem, as long as our solution requires someone else to change, we will never know the power and promise of self-determination.

Righteousness cannot be born until self-righteousness is dead.

What is best for people is what they do for themselves.

I'm quite sensitive to people noticing me. There are times when I'm relaxed, then others when it does make me self-conscious.

Pride is over-estimation of oneself by reason of self-love.

There is such wonderful balm in self-imposed sacrifice.

Apocalypse can mean the unveiling of the deeper self of humanity.

There are so many ways in which we learn about life and the self. Each day opens paths to this exploration. For many of us, books play a major role in that adventure

Every truth passes through 3 stages before it is recognized 1)ridicule 2) opposition 3) accepted as self-evident.

We are not passive exhibitors of visual or auditory or tactile images. We have selves. We have a Me that is automatically present in our minds right now.

I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.

The way we live our days, is the way we live our lives.

The movement of grace toward gratitude brings us from the package of self-obsessed madness to a spiritual awakening.

Self appointed expectations lead to self induced frustrations.

You don’t need to marry a man with millions. You only need to be your exquisite self.

Confidence is something you acquire in yourself by believing in self ability with courage and conviction.

Unless we learn the lesson of self-appreciation and practice it, we shall spend our lives imitating other people and deprecating ourselves.

The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.

Abortion, for many women, is more than an experience of suffering beyond anything most men will ever know, it is an act of mercy, and an act of self-defense.

Self-plagiarism is style.

True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

For if I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it, it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers.

Our greatest weakness is lack of self-confidence.

The world is governed by love,--self-love.

I lack self-confidence. I don't know whether I shall ever get it. Perhaps it is better to be unsure of your self, as I am. But it is very tiring.

What is greatness? I will answer: it is the capacity to live by the three fundamental values of John Galt: reason, purpose, self-esteem.

Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it.

Intuition is natural by-product of flowering of a mature self-esteem and a sense of empowerment – not power over, but power to be