Self Quotes

A difference in self loathing? Please. The only difference between a gun and a rope is the time it takes to tie the knot.

The real key to health and happiness and success is self knowledge

Even back then, I exuded self-confidence, and that drives women crazy.

There's no one so self-righteous as someone policing someone else's morality.

I wish adults would spend less energy freaking out about the cutting itself and work harder to understand what drives kids to self-harm.

The spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger.

Whoever has the most energy wins. Energy gives one confidence, power, self-esteem and new possibilities.

True self is the part of us that does not change when circumstances do.

According to the brain-centered model of exercise performance, a runner achieves his race goal when his brain calculates that achieving the race goal is possible without catastrophic self-harm.

Procrastination is the seed of self destruction.

When our inner self connects to our work and our work to our inner self, the work knows no limit, for the inner self knows no limit.

Loneliness is caused by an alienation from life. It is a loneliness from your real self.

I was a kid who didn't have a lot of self-esteem.

I like to begin every screenplay with a burst of delusional self-confidence. It tends to fade pretty quickly, but for me, at least, there doesn't seem to be any other way to start writing a script.

People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty. It robs people of self-esteem.

Man is the weak being who, in spite of all his self-importance and pride of wealth and capital, is vanquished by the smallest microbe.

As you grow in self-esteem, your face, manner, way of talking and moving will tend naturally to project the pleasure you take in being alive.

Self-esteem is not a luxury; it is a profound spiritual need.

If you have high self-esteem, you might still know times of emotional suffering, but less often and with faster recovery-your resilience is greater.

If another person only had in his storehouse of deserved self-esteem what you had put there, what would he have to draw upon and to sustain him?

I'm a self-made woman. I've never compromised myself.

The real rub is finding that authentic self and it's not something that's going to come to you overnight.

I like storytelling. We all have an active thing that we do that gives us self-esteem, that makes us proud; it's necessary. I have to tell stories because that's the way the wiring went in.

The cause of all sins in every case lies in the person's excessive love of self.

Only make decisions that support your self-image, self-esteem, and self-worth.

A taste of righteousness can be easily perverted into an overweening sense of self-righteousness and judgmentalism.

The real religion is not imitation of anybody else, it is a search to find out your own authentic self, who you are.

It seems to be a common denominator with a lot of comics, this low self-esteem thing.

Few are humble, for it takes a self-esteem few possess.

To be born again means that we must be changed from a negative to a positive self-image - from inferiority to self-esteem, from fear to love, from doubt to trust.

I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I figure that's part of the territory.

The authentic self is the soul made visable.

Once you accept and rejoice in your authenticity, you begin to see things as YOU are. You begin to see the authentic self is the Soul made visible. Godspeed on your journey to wholeness.

Self-confidence means thinking all the time, "God is in me... God is doing every­thing . . . without God I cannot be . . . all this is God . . . I only want to think of God."

I think, head up and shoulders back. Not only does it make you look taller and thinner but it gives you confidence and boosts your self-esteem.

But I really believe that when you give people authentic identity, which is what Facebook does, and you can be your real self and connect with real people online, things will change.

Self-confidence is the most important thing, and this comes from identifying your goals, knowing your limits and roping in all the help you can get.

A successful man has the following qualities: A smile that doesn't die; patience; fearless mind; love; self- confidence; love for everybody.

Lack of Confidence, low Self-Esteem, and depleted Mojo are symptoms of inadequate Strength Training.

The highest in God's esteem are the lowest in their own.

Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish.

The biggest research of all when I do a character is self-examination. You look at yourself and you ask, 'How am I similar to this person and how am I different?'

Self-esteem is the result of recognizing our personal power; awe and wonder come from recognizing our lack of it. Both are true, and in an exceptional life there is no conflict between them.

Mental toughness is Spartanism, with all its qualities of self-denial, sacrifice, dedication, fearlessness, and love.

There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance

India.. a perfectly wonderful country, may have been motivated by a lack of self-esteem.

Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier.

Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.

To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself worth preserving.