The Self Quotes

Without a rigorous, self-critical discourse, one risks lapsing into pious platitudes and unexamined generalizations.

In our personal lives, if we do not develop our own self-awareness and become responsible for first creations, we empower other people and circumstances to shape our lives by default.

Self-consciousness, that's what it is. Always my abiding vice. I keep seeing myself. Me watching myself watching others watch me. How do you lose that? What's the trick?

The boundary condition of the universe is that it has no boundary.

Until we have the right knowledge of God, the knowledge of self and our need for grace remains distorted.

You have untold strengths and resources inside. You have your glorious self.

Human attempts to construct moral order are always precarious: If righteousness too often leads to self-righteousness, the demand for justice can lead to one guillotine or another.

The very basis of true peace of mind is a benevolent wish to see all the world as happy as one's self.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.

Indecision is a form of self-abuse - be ready to step up!

A book is solitude, privacy; it is a way of holding the self apart from the crush of the outer world.

This is the great lesson that we are here to learn through myriads of births and heavens and hells - that there is nothing to be asked for, desired for, beyond one's spiritual Self (atman).

Self-forgetfulness in creativity can lead to self-transcendence.

A little thing, like children putting flowers in my hair, can fill up the widening cracks in my self-assurance like soothing lanolin.

We call ourselves a "capacity building" organization; self-motivated and self-initiated capacity building. For example, in 30 years, I don't think I have signed a check for the company.

When we see the secret beauty of anyone, including ourselves, we see past our judgment and fear into the core of who we truly are - not an entrapped self but the radiance of goodness.

It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.

Only in the crucible of self-mastery can freedom be smelted

The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.

Discipline is the virtue that begins in obedience and flowers in self-control.

This is the nature of going forward into being: A series of self-transforming ascents of level.

History is like self-reflection through the medium of language propelling itself into self-recognition.

Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it.

I think that Americans find the Australian humour and the energy of Australians very refreshing - we are quite self-deprecating, we're light-hearted and can have a laugh.

It is silly to call fat people "gravitationally challenged", a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom of political frustration.

I think in particularly with young kids who don't have a lot of positive influences, pop culture almost becomes a larger part of that self-discovery and how you define yourself.

Democracy is direct self-government over all the people, for all the people, by all the people.

With self-discipline, all things are possible

Man is the only living being who has a developed self-awareness and death-awareness.

I often steal sandwiches, eat them, and put the container's back., with a signed autograph of my self in its place. It's my way of giving back to society.

No confict is so severe as his who labors to subdue himself.

Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.

The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.

Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero.

Private fortunes, in the present state of our circulation, are at the mercy of those self-created money lenders, and are prostrated by the floods of nominal money with which their avarice deluges us.

May it be to the world... to assume the blessings and security of self-government.

I deem no government safe which is under the vassalage of any self-constituted authorities, or any other authority than that of the nation, or its regular functionaries.

Subjective time flows forward, the phenomenal self is embedded into this flow, an inner history unfolds. That it is why it is not a bubble, but a tunnel: There is movement in time.

Self-discipline is a rigorous process at best; too many of us want it to be effortless and painless.

The wise treat self-respect as non-negotiable, and will not trade it for health or wealth or anything else.

Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.

The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

So soon as the possession of property becomes the basis of popular esteem, therefore, it becomes also a requisite to that complacency which we call self-respect.

The first thing I would do for anyone who's trying to lose body fat, for instance, would be to remove foods from the house that he or she would consume during lapses of self-control.

Truth without love is imperious self-righteousn ess. Love without truth is cowardly self-indulgence .

Careful obedience to God’s law may serve as a strategy for rebelling against God

Self-managing is Job One. Have a vision and a mission. Surround yourself with talented people. Rely on effective coaching, not managing of employees.

If you add the value, you will become the brand. Find a way to add more value than anyone else does

Let fear be a counselor and not a jailer.

Sometimes I wish that I could go into a time machine right now and just look at my self and say, 'Calm down. Things are gonna be fine. Things are gonna be all great. Just relax.