The Self Quotes

Girls' inner critics are starting to reveal themselves at a younger and younger age. And body image issues are an aspect of their lives which is causing them low self esteem and day-to-day suffering.

I'm hugely self-critical in the morning.

I believe the process of going from confusion to understanding is a precious, even emotional, experience that can be the foundation of self-confidence.

I see the American experience as being defined by the immigrant paradigm of rupture and renewal: rupture with the old world, the old ways, and renewal of the self in a bright but difficult New World.

Sticking to a diet required me to have a permanently low self-esteem. But happily, I developed other skills beyond a fluctuating weight, eventually building up a different source of self-worth.

I've always turned my anger inwards towards self-destruction.

People don't resent having nothing nearly as much as too little.- Ivy Crompton

Henry Miller may write about revelers self-woven into a human hooked rug, because his ecstasy is solemn.

I was once naïve enough to ask the late Duke of Devonshire why he liked the town of Eastbourne. He replied with a self-deprecating shrug that one of the things he liked was that he owned it.

Autobiographies tell more lies than all but the most self-indulgent fiction.

American ladies are known abroad for two distinguishing traits (besides, possibly, their beauty and self-reliance), and these are their ill-health and their extravagant devotion to dress.

Luckily, I's learned at an early age that self-preservation was the only way to survive with your soul intact.

For a justice of this ultimate tribunal [the U.S. Supreme Court], the opportunity for self-discovery and the occasion for self-revelation is great.

It is easiest to "be all things to all men," but it is not honest. Self-respect must be sacrificed every hour in the day.

Truly know thyself, and to thine own self be true.

I like eating fine foods and drinking nice wine. Even if I had a really good figure, I don't think I'd get my t**s and a** out for no one.

The [National Socialist] Party...is convinced that our nation can achieve permanent health only from within on the basis of the principle: The common interest before self-interest.

I'm a self-taught musician, so I never really had the restrictions of any one instrument. I would always just sort of pick up instruments and make noise with 'em.

The supreme blossoming of character lies (or reside) in renounciation (or renuncement) and abnegation of self ("abnégation de soi", Fr.)

Unbinding the Heart means to really look at the areas in our lives where we withhold our own love from our self and others.

Self-preservation's a man's first duty. And natives don't mind dying, you know. They don't feel about it as Europeans do.

You agree - I'm sure you agree that beauty is the only thing worth living for.

The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need a mirror.

Artists are the worst [people]. They are selfish, self-centred; they don't care what happens.

Hardly anything else reveals so well the fear and uncertainty among men as the length to which they will go to hide their true selves from each other and even from their own eyes.

The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed.

There's an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we're morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that's a bit dangerous.

I remain optimistic that ultimately free speech and a free press where individuals have access to the dialogue will have a self-correcting quality.

It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I've ever done, so it's a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit.

Kindness to self will put you in the perfect attitude and position to be kind to others.

Beer is a gift from the goddesses, a soothing balm given our species to bring joy and comfort in compensation for the curse of self-awareness, the awful realization of our mortality

My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.

For some musicians it becomes self-reflexive to think, "I have to write some of my kind of songs now."

Why should self-indulgent nonsense - whatever its professed political orientation - be lauded as the height of scholarly achievement?

Any systems approaching perfect self-control also approaches perfect self-frustration.

I have no other self than the totality of the things of which I am aware.

Self-knowledge leads to wonder, and wonder to curiosity and investigation, so that nothing interests people more than people, even if only one's own person.

Once I know who I'm not, then I'll know who I am.

I sabotage myself for fear of what my bigness could do.

The joke that you laid in the bed that was me.

I would not have discredited every one of their compliments. It was your approval I wanted, your congratulations.

To whom do I owe the first apology? No one's been crueler than I've been to me.

When I pray, I'm just talking to what some people might call our higher selves: God, myself, my intuition, my heart. Whatever that is, that's where I go.

Autocratic governments are masters of self-contradiction. They say one thing, do another.

Self efficacious children tend to attribute their successes to ability, but ability attributions affect performance indirectly through perceived self-efficacy

Given a sufficient level of perceived self-efficacy to take on threatening tasks, phobics perform them with varying amounts of fear arousal depending on the strength of their perceived self-efficacy

That's the way man is, cher monsieur. He has two faces: he can't love without self-love.

We [Jews] have no other means of self-defense than our solidarity

Only in mathematics and physics was I, through self-study, far beyond the school curriculum, and also with regard to philosophy as it was taught in the school curriculum.

Therapy is the boat across the river, but most don't want to get off. Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing