The Self Quotes

New Labour was the most short-sighted, self-serving, incompetent, useless, and ineffective government that Britain has ever known.

Styles, like everything else, change. Style doesn't.

Writing is self employment, so you can make your own schedule.

Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being.

Self praise is no praise at all.

Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.

Man is dragged hither and thither, at one moment by the blind instincts of the forest, at the next by the strange intuitions of a higher self whose rationale he doubts and does not understand.

The feelings which seek expression in words are mostly egotistical, since they seek to express what flatters our self-love and can show us, as we imagine, in the best light.

In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way.

You build a successful life a day at a time.

None of our hearts are pure, we always have mixed motives. Are self deceivers, but the worst of all Deceits is to murmur 'Lord, I am not worthy' And, lying easy, turn your face to the wall.

I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queen's on thrones, without self-respect and peace.

See God in every person, place, and thing, and all will be well in your world.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

There is something beautiful about photography; it allows the self to be reunited with the world.

While Socrates empties the cup of poison with unshaken soul,Christ exclaims,'If it is possible, let this cup pass from me'.Christ in this respect is the self- confession of human sensibility.

If people could understand how much pleasure they could have by themselves, I think everyone would be a lot saner. I think that people really need a dose of quality time with one's self.

The feeling of being valuable - 'I am a valuable person'- is essential to mental health and is a cornerstone of self-discipline.

Make up your mind that you will become the seeker of your own higher self.

Volunteer activities can foster enormous leadership skills. The nonprofit professional volunteer world is a laboratory for self - realization.

Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love.

Patience means self-suffering.

Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke.

We must learn to be self-reliant and independent of schools, courts, protection and patronage of a Government we seek to end, if it will not mend.

Nanda broke down every barrier and won his way to freedom not by brag, not by bluster, but by the purest form of self-suffering.

My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak in body, is the guardian of his or her self-respect and liberty.

Muhammad teaches us the knowledge of our own selves, and of our own people. He cleans us up-morally, mentally and spiritually

I think the inner and outer aspects of the self together make one person.

We stand for self-reliance. We hope for foreign aid but cannot be dependent on it; we depend on our own efforts, on the creative power of the whole army and the entire people.

I didn't want to whisper and giggle about [puberty] anymore. I felt incredibly self-conscious. I felt like I was losing myself, and I was losing who I was. And that really scared me.

Vegas is purposefully constructed as a self-enclosed and isolated biosphere, sort of what a recreational colony built on the moon might be like.

I look at every book as a self-help book.

A sort of egotistical self-evaluation is unavoidable in those joys in which erudition and art mingle and in which aesthetic pleasure may become more acute, but not remain as pure.

How ridiculous not to flee from one's own wickedness, which is possible, yet endeavor to flee from another's which is not.

Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.

Think nothing profitable to you which compels you to break a promise, to lose your self respect, to hate any person, to curse, to act the hypocrite.

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor.

An interesting piece of work, freely chosen, which has the virtue of inducing concentration rather than fatigue, adds to the child's energies and mental capacities, and leads him to self-mastery.

The real preparation for education is the study of one's self.

God heard us. He sent help. He sent you.

Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit.

I think we all need to be looking to the better angels of our own selves. We don't need to be looking for great people so much as becoming great people.

Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

If there be a faith that can move mountains, it is faith in one's own power.

Criticism is just someone's opinion you don't agree with!

They'll just cut our wrists like Cheap coupons and say that death Was on sale today.

I'm one of the world's most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.

Be in the habit of experimenting with your clothing so that you don't get stuck for life with a self-image developed over the course of high school.