The Self Quotes

Every year without knowing it I have passed the day When the last fires will wave to me

People who are tremendously concerned about their identification, their individuality, their self-expression, or their sense of humor, always seem to be missing the very things they pursue.

To know when one's self is interested, is the first condition of interesting other people.

One gains by losing self for others and not by hoarding for oneself.

Once you see a child's selfimage begin to improve, you will see significant gains in achievement areas, but even more important, you will see a child who is beginning to enjoy life more.

What might once have been called whining is now exalted as a process of asserting selfhood; self-absorption is regarded as a form of self-expression.

Part of being an actor is almost self-hypnosis during those brief moments when the cameras are rolling. You want to actually believe you're Chris Gardner or Muhammad Ali.

All hatred driven hence, The soul recovers radical innocence And learns at last that it is self-delighting, Self-appeasing, self-affrighting, And that its own sweet will is Heaven's will

The threat to globalization is not the wasted American dollars but Washington's readiness to mix US commercial interests with its self-appointed role as global protector.

One's complete sentences are attempts, as often as not, to complete an incomplete self with words.

Those who can command themselves command others.

We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.

Who likes not his business, his business likes not him.

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.

I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.

Beneath the dingy uniformity of international fashions in dress, man remains what he has always been; a splendid fighting animal, a self-sacrificing hero, and a blood thirsty savage.

As for my ideal type, I like girls who don't have powerful presence, and not self-centered. I'd like her to have a light skin, and a calm personality.

Only those few who are able to surpass their fear of death completely can fully experience the highest forms of life; not the mundane life of the mortal, but the godly life of the resurrected.

Don't you love nobody better'n you do yo'self. Do, you'll be dying befo' yo' time is out.

It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control.

Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?

Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners.

The never-ending task of self improvement.

I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.

public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.

Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.

I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.

I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever only rejoices me, and the heart appoints

No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.

The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.

Being sorry for myself is a luxury I can't afford.

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

No man may make another free.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

Discover your deep inner-self and from that place spread love in every direction.

There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person's heart.

In the heart or every caregiver is a knowing that we are all connected. As I do for you, I do for me.

The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.

It is painful to face the self we know we have never had the integrity to honor and assert.

I am part of everyone I ever dated on OK Cupid.

Do your best, and be a little better than you are.

No one can save me except myself.

Plans are easy to make, dreams are easy to dream. But putting your back into it? A little bit of hard graft and discipline? That is just too scary and far too much effort for the masses

Men constantly miscalculate what they can do in a day, and grossly underestimate what can be achieved in a year.

Remember this. We are always looking for problems to solve, and to solve problems we need to be ready for clues. And you will never be in the receiving frame of mind if you – never – shut - up!

No person may enjoy outstanding success without good health.

I'm as proud of my inconsistencies as I am my consistencies.

I want to be two people at once. One runs away.

Fortune does favor the bold and you'll never know what you're capable of if you don't try.

Those who say life is knocking them down and giving them a tough time are usually the first to beat themselves up. Be on your own side.