Self Quotes

The Modern Self must confront the shadow of hubris.

Never appeal to a man's 'better nature.' He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage.

The basic of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual.

Men, unlike mockingbirds, have the capacity for systematic self-delusion. We echo each other with equal precision, equal eloquence, equal assurance.

Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits

For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit.

Self-discipline is the No. 1 delineating factor between the rich, the middle class and the poor.

The main cause of poverty is self-inflicted fear and ignorance.

The respect you give others is a dramatic reflection of the respect you give yourself.

I went to a massage parlor, it was self service.

The God worth worshipping is the one who pays us the compliment of self - regulation, and we might return it by minding our own business.

If you wish to shine like day, burn up the night of self-existence. Dissolve in the Being who is everything.

You have mourned over others; now sit down for a while and weep over your own self.

Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly.

Let's ask God to help us to self-control for one who lacks it, lacks his grace.

You have enemies. For who can live on this earth without them? Take heed to yourselves: love them. In no way can your enemy so hurt you by his violence, as you hurt yourself if you love him not.

We crave permission openly to become our secret selves.

...as far as self-discipline goes, it's still ultimately up to me how well I can push myself. Only I can do that. I just have to keep on going, keep on working, keep on improving.

There's no journey worth taking except the journey through one's self. That's the most important journey you take. I found that out as I went around the world many times: I was learning about me.

Amazement and wonder signify that one's concepts of self and of the world and of other people are ready to be re-formed.

Without self-discipline, a noncommissioned officer can never develop or maintain personal integrity.

May I consider the wise man rich, and may I have such wealth as only the self-restrained man can bear or endure.

Surrender to your own self, of which everything is an expression.

O abyss! O eternal Godhead! O deep sea! What more could you have given me than the gift of your very self?

Give a man or woman back his self-respect, and in most cases-not all, but most-you also give back that person's ability to think with at least some clarity.

I know you think that I have some kind of perfect, unyielding self-control, but that's not actually the case. - Edward Cullen

Your needs will be met once you can find a way of projecting energy and fulfilling someone else's need.

Invincibility depends on one's self; the enemy's vulnerability on him.

Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.

In the process of deeply accepting our own inner experience, instead of being identified with a story of a limited self, we realize the compassion and wakefulness that is our essence.

It's important to be self-aware about what people are saying about you, but even more so, be very aware of who you actually are, and to have that be the main priority.

[We assume] that the self is an actual living thing, but it's not. It's a projection which our clever brains create in order to cheat ourselves from the reality of death.

The self says, I am; The heart says, I am less; The spirit says, you are Nothing.

I don't know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who stayed home.

The real reason for a quest is always self-knowledge.

The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.

In humility is the greatest freedom. As long as you have to defend the imaginary self that you think is important, you lose your peace of heart.

Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a person deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost

With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper.

We completely deny the existence of a self-existent I, or a permanent, independent soul. Every aspect of your body and mind is impermanent: changing, changing, changing.

Careerism: the self-centered philosophy of governing to win the next election above all else.

I never could have dreamed that her heart was so wicked, but I keep coming back because it's so hard to kick it.

If you are going to succeed, you must deal with what caused you to fail

Self-awareness is one of the rarest of human commodities. I don't mean self-consciousn ess where you're limiting and evaluating yourself. I mean being aware of your own patterns.

When you believe it, it becomes self fulfilling.

Happy Tuesday! We are responsible for peace and order in our lives! When your world is CONSTANTLY filled with chaos, then it's time to take a look at SELF!

Here's the thing, you're not really ready for love until you have enough self-respect that if you met your exact self but in a guy you would totally, completely, absolutely want to be with him.

As incredible as it sounds, an unhappy man does not realize that happiness is better than unhappiness. Knowing only his own concealed anguish, he worships it, which is the same as self-worship.

I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another.

What Independence Has Come to Mean to Me: The Pain of Solitude. The Pleasure of Self-Knowledge