Self Quotes

I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.

I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.

I don't really need to stand out, there's room for everyone. Although I haven't built a niche yet, I'm just writing love songs.

Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.

The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.

Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.

Self - development should be a perpetual process. In life you are either growing or rotting. You're moving forward or backwards; there is no standing still.

I'm just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.

I'm sorry to myself, for treating me worse than I would anybody else.

To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.

My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

Land health is the capacity for self-renewal in the soils, waters, plants, and animals that collectively comprise the land.

Plasticene and self-expression will not solve the problems of education. Nor will technology and vocational guidance; nor the classics and the Hundred Best Books.

A lover is never a completely self-reliant person viewing the world through his own eyes, but a hostage to a certain delusion.

Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.

God is displeased at the diffidence of souls who love Him sincerely and whom He Himself loves.

I'd love to teach a self-defense class for ladies, specifically about running away from psychos in masks chasing them with chainsaws.

Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.

Balance is not to be sought by association with others; it must exist within one's self.

The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

The Finn is the most watery person in Europe... Here people take baths that last three or four hours and steep their bodies in water right down to their most secret selves.

What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.

Radical self-care is what we've been longing for, desperate for, our entire lives-friendship with our own hearts.

If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.

You have a deeper, wiser, loving self that you can always ask for help.

The ego is a self-justifying historian which seeks only that information that agrees with it, rewrites history when it needs to, and does not even see the evidence that threatens it.

The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.

I have not taken my good looks seriously from the beginning. When I would be teased by my friends about my looks, I would just make a self-deprecating remark and let it pass.

If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.

Golf is a game of inches. The most important are the six inches between your ears.

I don't possess a lot of self-confidence. I'm an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit the stage.

We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves.

My own self-consciousness cries out to me coldly: how does one love zero?

Love is our response to our highest values. Love is self-enjoyment. The noblest love is born out of admiration of another's values.

For the spread and endurance of an idea the originator is dependent on the self-development of the receivers and transmitters.

I came to a clear internal realization that there was nothing I could do as a separated self that would ever fulfill me.

Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

From aquaintances we conceal our real selves. To our friends we reveal our weaknesses.

Of all the definitions of love that abound in our universe, a special favorite of mine is... “the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.”

Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?

We can know nothing of humankind without knowing something of ourselves. Self-knowledge is the property of those people whose passions have their full play, but who ponder over their results.

The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.

Once beyond the self, however, holiness is no longer possible, because now, there is nothing left to give and no-one left to do the giving.

Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.

Journalism is the closest thing I have to a religion, because I believe deeply in the role and responsibility the journalists have to the people of a self-governing community.

It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball's wounds are self-inflicted.

Self-conceit is the enemy of progress.

Persistence is self-discipline in action.

Humour has always been a self-defence mechanism for me.