The Self Quotes

If people are innately saddled with certain sins and flaws, like selfishness, prejudice, sort-sightedness, and self-deception, then political reform would seem to be a waste of time.

Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.

I bought a self learning record to learn Spanish. I turned it on and went to sleep; the record got stuck. The next day I could only stutter in Spanish.

While fighting for acceptance, we must remember that our own self worth is not determined by whether or not we get it.

I don't like self-righteous people," I say. "What's to like?" says Haymitch, who begins sucking the dregs out of the empty bottles.

Yes I think I'm okay, walked into the door again.

Man can become like God and acquire control over the whole universe if he multiplies infinitely his centre of self-consciousness.

All is the Self or Brahman. The saint, the sinner, the lamb, the tiger, even the murderer, as far as they have any reality, can be nothing else, because there is nothing else.

I feel self-repressed again. The old fall disease. Where is my willpower? The idea of a life gets in the way of my life...I dream too much, work too little.

I'd like to be my old self again but I'm still trying to find it

Alcoholism isn't a disease. It's a failure of self-image.

People need to be re - sometimes we need to reinvent ourselves and then get reacquainted with our better selves.

Laws are essential emanations from the self-poised character of God; they radiate from the sun to the circling edge of creation. Verily, the mighty Lawgiver hath subjected himself unto laws.

If you can win complete mastery over self, you will easily master all else. To triumph over self is the perfect victory.

[We should be] determined... to sever ourselves from the union we so much value rather than give up the rights of self-government... in which alone we see liberty, safety and happiness.

The law of self-preservation is higher than written law.

For pride, which is the inordinate attribution of goods and values and glories to one's own contingent self, cannot exist where there is no contingent self to which anything can be attributed.

Politics and self-interest have been so uniformly connected, that the world, from being so often deceived, has a right to be suspicious of public characters.

There is something therapeutic about doing for others that lifts a person out of the rut of self-thought.

Chris Chandler reminds me of my own self way back when - listen to him Now!

The whole philosophy of modern times is to dissolve distinctions between individuals and deal with them as large collections of people. It's essentially self-interested on the part of authority.

got a little red line that tells you, boy where the razor's been.

As for the people who say tackling problems through clothes is superficial, I think they say that because they have their own issues about self worth.

Self, service, substance is the Divine order and nothing counts until we give ourselves.

I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?

There are both things in international law: the principle of territorial integrity and right to self-determination.

I happen to think we’ve set our ideal on the wrong objects; I happen to think that the greatest ideal man can set before himself is self-perfection.

The paleoclimate record shouts to us that, far from being self-stabilizing, the Earth's climate system is an ornery beast which overreacts even to small nudges.

Melancholy betrays the world for the sake of knowledge. But in its tenacious self-absorption it embraces dead objects in its contemplation, in order to redeem them

Grief is selfish. It is indulged in for self-gratification, not for love. Cosmic man knows the beauty and unreality of death.

Virtually every spiritual tradition teaches that your higher self is the presence of God within you.

Refuse to ever use the term 'failure' again about yourself or anyone else. Remind yourself that wehn things didn't go as planned you didn't fail, you only produced a result.

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

Success in business is seldom owing to uncommon talents or original power which is untractable and self-willed, but to the greatest degree of commonplace capacity.

Never before have self-suffiency and education been so important, and they are virtually inseparable from survival.

The self is like a pimping blackmailing chauffeur who gets you from here to there on word lines.

You can treat experience as a set of surprises on which to exercise your quirky self.

The stigma of self-inflicted death is for some people a hateful blot that demands erasure at all costs.

Flatter yourself critically.

Any beauty you see in me is only a reflection of Him, any ugliness, a reflection of my self.

The profile of a wealthy person is this hard work, perseverance, and most of all, self-discipline.

I would love to meet Martin Luther King. His fearless attitude, leadership, and self-awareness changed our world.

What is assumed to be the materialisation of the inner truth of the self is in fact an idealisation of the material - objectified - traces of consumer choices.

The gods help them who help themselves.

I'm mostly self-taught. I didn't learn much in school.

But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that refuse to melt away in the sunshine of a smile.

Self is the opaque veil that hides the Face of God from us. It can be removed only in spiritual experience, never by mere instruction.

Our self-trust is such a subtle thing that it still comes around whispering to us even after we are sure it is gone.

I am so glad people have started making films n martial arts and self-defense, which is actually the need of the hour.

If there is any characteristic that is distinctly human, it is the capability for reflective self-consciousness.