The Self Quotes

Self-defense...is the only honourable course where there is unreadiness for self-immolation.

Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all.

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.

For a firm believer in swadeshi, there need be no Pharisaical self-satisfaction in wearing khadi.

There is nothing so depressing as a constant contemplation of one's self, and the greatest moral cowardice in the world's opinion comes from consulting one's own personal convenience.

We have these impossibly high standards and we'll probably never live up to our perfect fantasies of our future selves. But I feel like that's okay.

Peace has been variously defined, but perhaps we might think of it as 'harmony within one's self, and with God and man.'

Note to self: If you can't hear God when you pray, shut up.

As a Christian, there is no other part of the New Right ideology that concerns me more than its self-serving misuse of religious faith.

Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people.

If there is one thing that will make a man peculiarly and insufferable self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day at sea, when nearly all his comrades are seasick.

The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be. Because of all I may become, I will close my eyes and leap.

The Soul debases her self, when she sets her affections on any thing but her creator.

Always guarding one's real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks. Life itself had become a secret affair.

You can be pleased with nothing if you are not pleased with yourself.

The self-righteous feel no need to be charming, and thus double their offensiveness.

Self-hatred and self-love are equally self-centered.

If you run for mayor, people say you're being egotistical. If you decide you won't run for mayor, people say you're being self-centered and egotistical.

Our self-expression is meant to be a manifestation of the silence of our hearts.

Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there.

Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

He is conscious only of God...To be conscious of knowing God is to know about God and self.

To be completely stripped bare of any image power or my hair. To step onstage and get the response that I got blew any problems I had about self-image out the door.

We are all more similar than we usually realize. So much of the suffering we do in our life is because of obsession with self.

Who you think you are is only a thought.

If you only know something one way, then you don't really know it.

The way you think either stands in your way or assists you in achieving your goals.

Happiness and joy are inner qualities that can't be shaken by outer circumstances because they are inherent within the core Self.

It's true that necessity is the mother of invention. But for those of us without fathers, there is a deeper truth - necessity is the mother of self-invention.

I’m self-entertaining. My dialogue is with myself.

Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that.

If you copy then it is not self-expression.

I would rather be old for a shorter time than be old before my time.

If others surpass you in knowledge, in charm, in strength, in fortune, you have other causes to blame for it; but if you yield tothem in stoutness of heart you have only yourself to blame.

We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along.

We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.

Self-rejection is the biggest sin that you can commit.

It is by becoming increasingly complex that the self might be said to grow.

The entitlement mentality so carefully cultivated by liberal academics, politicians, clergymen, and journalists continues to corrode the self-sufficiency that once defined the American character.

The man of least capacity is the one who shows himself incapable of self-correction.

Brokenness is the shattering of my self-will - the absolute surrender of my will to the will of God.

Cosmetic surgery and the ideology of self-improvement may have made women's hope for legal recourse to justice obsolete.

One of the most significant characteristics of healthy self esteem is that it is the state of one who is not at war either with himself or with others.

...self-consciousness is a man's worst enemy.

God loves you and everything about you, so why beat up on your precious self.

..the self-knowledge that I am talking about is concrete, verifiable and is tangible like science itself and completely understandable in rational terms.

Think positively about yourself.... ask God who made you to keep on remaking you.

Where self-interest is violently suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control which dries up the wellsprings of initiative and creativity.

True memoir is written, like all literature, in an attempt to find not only a self but a world