Self Quotes

Machines will follow a path that mirrors the evolution of humans. Ultimately, however, self-aware, self-improving machines will evolve beyond humans' ability to control or even understand them.

The mechanisms of vis medicatrix naturæ—the most healing power of nature—are so effective that most diseases are self-terminating.

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

The more one gives one's self in creative union with another, the more one becomes one's self.

Before my accident I was a little too... selfish and self-absorbed and for me, to now be at the place where I can kinda give back and inspire people. I'm blessed. I'm really blessed.

Fear is a self imposed prison that will keep you from becoming what God intends for you to be. You must move against it with the weapons of faith and love.

Metafiction says something. It has to do with taking a large fiction itself and writing within it; that kind of self-reflecting writing that emerges from it can be thought of as metafictional.

Unless you are happy with yourself, you will not be happy.

Being our Self is the wisest philosophy, the bravest action, the kindest consideration and the greatest act of healing imaginable.

A subject emerges from an interaction between my self, my I, and my medium.

Know yourself. Feel yourself. Love yourself. Respect yourself. Take good care of yourself. You are your most precious possession on Earth.

People have been so busy relating to how I look, it's a miracle I didn't become a self-conscious blob of protoplasm.

The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will

There is no such thing as time management; there is only self-management.

Examining your thoughts is an important part of the practice of self-reflections

Self-image, the concept we have of ourselves, must begin not by looking in the mirror but by looking into the face of God.

Self-control is only courage under another form. It may also be regarded as the primary essence of character.

Stressed souls need the reassuring rhythm of self-nurturing rituals.

Self-deceit is a most damaging trait. The remedy, for an artist, is to paint a self-portrait!

Again and again I find that my own inner counselor, my secret dreaming self, is not only wise and helpful but usually amusing as well.

A real pleasure is a pleasure that one enjoys by one's self, without a companion, and without a single argument.

I hate being forced to do things. I hate people telling me what to do, so I'll do the complete opposite. It's a bit self-destructive sometimes.

I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.

There is no second, or higher self to search for. You are the highest self, only give up the false ideas you have about your self.

The first steps in self-acceptance are not at all pleasant, for what one sees is not a happy sight. One needs all the courage to go further.

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.

Structure ignites spontaneity. Limits yield intensity. When we play... by our self-chosen rules, we find that containment of strength amplifies strength.

The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.

Self-hate is a form of mental slavery that results in poverty, ignorance, and crime.

The woman is perfected. Her dead Body wears the smile of accomplishment.

'Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind' was born out of my own journey of self-discovery within both my personal and professional life.

Inevitably out of the psychedelic experience emerges not despair, not self-indulgence, but wild-eyed idealism, that's the inevitable product of any psychedelically driven social process.

Wizard's Tenth Rule Willfully turning aside from the truth is treason to one's self.

Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.

Above all, anger needs to be felt so it can be talked through, understood and integrated, rather than acted out. In this way, it cleanses the self.

The desire for self-improvement is vital. There is no point in pushing children; they need to be the ones who want to learn new skills.

I didn't realize that I was in a self-made prison of human approval and human acceptance. Didn't even realize it. Most of the prisons we live in we are not conscious of.

Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.

An element of abstention, of restraint, must enter into all finer joys.

All great work artistic, poetic, intellectual or spiritual is produced at those moments when creators forget themselves altogether and are free from self-consciousness.

There are at least two distinct selves, the public and regal self, the private and human.

Hitler was undoubtedly a genius but he lacked self-control. He recognized no limits. Otherwise the thousand-year Reich would have lasted more than twelve years.

I now proceed to demonstrate that the Mexicans are wholly incapable of self-government, and that our liberties, our fortunes and our lives are insecure so long as we are connected with them.

Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego.

The biggest hindrance to learning is fear of showing one's self a fool.

Faith is an act of self-consecration, in which the will, the intellect, and the affections all have their place.

Writing is a form of self-flagellation.

Evidence is conclusive that your self-talk has a direct bearing on your performance.

But this revolutionary act of treating ourselves tenderly can begin to undo the aversive messages of a lifetime.

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.