Self Quotes

The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.

Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity.

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.

Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.

Quite possibly, the purpose of the universe is to provide a congenial home for self-conscious creatures who can ask profound questions and who can probe the nature of the universe itself.

If you are not yourself people will look right through you and see the pale shadow of someone else

I've never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for weeks on end, and I'd keep myself amused.

You need to remember that. If you’re to have decent lives, you have to know who you are and what lies ahead of you, every one of you.

If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.

And don't you let your guard down for a second because you think anything's inevitable.

There is nowhere you need go to find God, for God is within you. There is no one you need ask if you are good enough, for He has already established He is exceedingly well pleased.

Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others.

Let go of self-condemnation and guilt!

People simply feel better about themselves when they’re good at something.

To be enlightened is to know oneself and not run away.

There's more to clothing than just adornment. It does more than merely change how the world perceives us. It changes how we perceive ourselves.

I guessed life was like that. You gained and you lost, and if you saved anything from the ruins, even if only a shred of self-respect, it was enough to take you through the next bit.

Everything has been created twice once on a mental plain and once on a physical plain.

He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.

Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.

Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.

The basic experience of everyone is the experience of human limitation.

All men love themselves.

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.

Let your customers and prospects recommend you to each other and let you competition wish they were you. That is our mission.

Let women be provided with living strength of their own.

Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives

I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.

Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else.

Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.

I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.

It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.

True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.

If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.

Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.

As someone who grew up in the Bronx, I certainly learned my share of four-letter words, but none are more powerful than nice.

Pulse proximity is not intimacy.

The wind of God is always blowing... but you must hoist your sail.

You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.

I don't entirely approve of some of the things I have done, or am, or have been. But I'm me. God knows, I'm me.

Believe in yourself up here and it will make you stronger than you could ever imagine.

If four of you are playing hide and seek you'll only ever find the other three. For you are already right here. So what on earth is it that you're looking for? You are the very thing that you seek.

Aging in women is 'unbeautiful' since women grow more powerful with time, and since the links between generations of women must always be broken.

Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

When we struggle to change ourselves we, in fact, only continue the patterns of self-judgement and aggression. We keep the war against ourselves alive.

Problems are just businesses waiting for the right entrepreneur to unlock the value.

A career is just a longer trip with a whole lot more baggage.

Crowdsourcing is the ultimate disruptor of distribution because in a most Zen-like fashion, the content is controlled by everyone and no one at the same time.