The Self Quotes

Easy, Marks,' he whispered. 'One of us has to have some self-control, and it really should be you.

Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them.

…it is so much better to work for others than for one's self alone.

Self-love helps me make positive changes easily

Subjectivity is my middle name, a trick memory is my pack mule, and self-contradiction is my trusty old jackknife.

A genius is always a teacher, never a pupil; he is always self-made.

Self-love knows no impediment.

A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification.

Truth, purity, self-control, firmness, fearlessness, humility, unity, peace, and renunciation - these are the inherent qualities of a civil resister.

Do not believe in telling people of one's faith, especially with a view to conversion. Faith must be lived, and when it is, it becomes self-propagating

A courageous man prefers death to the surrender of self-respect.

Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint.

Self-restraint is the very keystone of the ethics of vow-taking.

Success means to wake up, grow up, and show up, living your unique self, giving your unique gifts to the larger evolutionary symphony of life which needs your music.

In reality, every reader is, while reading, the reader of his own self.

Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do. Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happen to you. Sanity means tying it to your own actions.

I'm more pompous and self-assured and determined that if - you know - if the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed.

It is often easier to justify one's self to others than to respond to the secret doubts that arise in one's own bosom.

As we give, so shall we receive. Service does not mean self-sacrifice. It means giving the needs of another person the same priority as our own.

I notice if I'm too fat or if I'm too ugly or there's skin hanging or whatever. When my clothes start not fitting, I get really self-conscious about what I eat.

If you recognize that self-driving cars are going to prevent car accidents, AI will be responsible for reducing one of the leading causes of death in the world.

We must stand up and say, "I'm black and I'm beautiful," and this self-affirmation is the black man's need, made compelling by the white man's crimes against him.

I find I always throw limbs here and there in my lyrics. I kind of put my physical self into the songs.

Shaking off restrictive chains requires action. They cannot be wished away. A declaration will never break chains. It requires commitment, self-discipline, and work.

Laughter is the great antidote for self-pity, maybe a specific for the malady, yet probably it does tend to dry one's feelings out a little, as if by exposing them to a vigorous wind.

To be at peace with self, to find company and nourishment in self-this would be the test of the free and productive psyche.

Self-sacrifice usually contains an unspoken demand for payment.

Self-deception is nature; hypocrisy is art.

My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived.

I create my social existence by earning and spending.

Self-analysis always cheats.

When I go out, I hope to leave the worst of myself at home.

I am the center of the world, but the control panel seems to be somewhere else.

Our vices are attempts to combine self-medication and enjoyment.

Self-pity makes people callous.

Self-righteous victims invite extra nails.

Self-hatred is sometimes appropriate.

Most self-laceration is more noisy than painful.

Too much involvement with one's feeling [is destructive]. If they have too much self-centered feelings, they get in trouble.

Montaigne [puts] not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence.

You can never separate yourself from who you are. You bring your whole self to everything that you do.

I feel people think I'm almost like a robot - like an android I just don't really get portrayed as someone who has feelings or who is sympathetic like a self-absorbed ice queen.

You do not have the right to take another human's life, unless it's in strict self-defense.

I've always been interested in plants because I'm a gardener, so I have a basic understanding of botany and things like that, but it's all self-taught.

We're on safe ground to presume that self-interest and hubris are at the core of the rebellion.

God defend me from myself.

Presumption is our natural and original malady. The most vulnerable and frail of all creatures is man, and at the same time the most arrogant.

There is no other industry that is more self-congratulatory and self-delusional than journalism. Well, maybe with the exception of Hollywood.

I know an awful lot of Hollywood people, who are so self-important, I can't understand it.

So I went to a club the other day, which is timely because my self esteem had been hovering right around 'normal' and I had been meaning to knock it down to negative 1000.