The Self Quotes

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?

One press account said I was an overnight success. I thought that was the longest night I've ever spent.

There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.

All motivation is self-motivation. Your family, your boss, or your co-workers can try to get your engine going, but until you decide what to accomplish, nothing will happen.

If there is such a person on the planet, then he or she-this self-appointed arbiter of “appropriateness”-deserves to be confronted with as many “inappropriate” transgressions as possible.

I suppose is very cathartic to do a show to the masses and you get to make magic in a manner that you can't do in regular life, but I suppose that self esteem effect is one of the most powerful.

We're very physical creatures, and we worry about how we look sometimes more than our spiritual selves

This is the miracle of life: that each person who heeds him or herself knows what no scientist can ever know: who he or she is.

Only one deception is possible in the infinite sense, self-deception.

Painting is a kind of call and response. During the act of painting one is listening, paying attention to a self, a voice simultaneously recognizable and foreign.

God can be seen Even by the poorest fool, But not by the self-styled, God-arguing Intellectual giants.

Meet you own self. Be with your own self, listen to it, obey it, cherish it, keep it in mind ceaselessly. You need no other guide.

The discussion of ideas as opposed to the American narcissistic obsession with what's going on with the self, that's the general thing people are talking about.

It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.

Laughter... is like a hurricane: once it reaches a certain point, it becomes self-feeding, self-supporting. You laugh not because the jokes are funny but because your own condition is funny.

When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution.

Self-mutilation is a frightening barrier that keeps us from seeing a person who is lost, in pain, and in desperate need of help.

It is the business of a general to be serene and inscrutable, impartial and self-controlled.

A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind.

I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their education, to their successful independence, to their sexual self-knowledge.

We shouldn't just think about mammograms and self-exams and self-care once a year. It should be an ongoing thing.

Self-sacrifice, not self-assertion, is the law of the highest universe.

Get away from all books and forms and let your soul see its Self. "We are deluded and maddened by books", Shri Krishna declares.

There is nothing so high as renunciation of self.

Think of yourself as a role model for others-showing that you can be kind, generous, loving, and rich!

History may be servitude. History may be freedom. See, now they vanish. The faces and places, with the self which, as it could, loved them, to become renewed, transfigured, in another pattern.

Well, guess what, I’m Cuban! And no self-respecting Cuban man of the era would let his wife work.

I don't believe anyone ever suspects how completely unsure I am of my work and myself and what tortures of self-doubting the doubt of others has always given me.

Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.

Nothing's done well when it's done out of self-interest.

Self-righteousness is the devil's masterpiece to make us think well of ourselves.

There is, therefore, a more perfect intellectual life in the angels. In them the intellect does not proceed to self-knowledge from anything exterior, but knows itself through itself.

What proposition is there respecting human nature which is absolutely and universally true? We know of only one,--and that is not only true, but identical,--that men always act from self-interest.

We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.

the qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. they are the result of habit and long training.

To worship our false selves is to worship nothing. And the worship of nothing is hell.

The self is not a thing, but a process.

The power to regulate the value of money does not involve a power to dilute the value of money by inflation, an absurd and self-serving rendering.

I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control.

But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God.

Those who condemn the self-righteous for the sake of self-discovery do so with ironic self-righteousness.

It is precisely our egoism, our self-centeredness and self-love that cause all our difficulties, our lack of freedom in suffering, our disappointments and our anguish of soul and body.

The advent of self-government for the Iraqi people is a watershed moment in their history.

Careers, children and homemaking all come above preserving your appearance. Self-preservation is at the bottom of the scale.

When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.

While our sin reaches far, God's grace reaches farther. God came after us not to strip away our freedom but to strip away our slavery to self, that we could become truly free.

They're all personal and self-created challenges that I think I've overcome within myself. Being confident enough to get on stage and play, things like that.

Often, the pretexts for starting a war are not real shortages of land, food or fuel, but rather perceptions - like fear, honor and perceived self-interest.

All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for rubbish.

I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves.