The Self Quotes

Everything that I bear within me bound, is to be found somewhere else free.

If I could write a letter to my teenage self I'd probably say something like: "You ain't gonna believe what will become of you."

In terms of formal education, I may somewhat lacking. I never finished school. I am a self-taught entrepreneur, that's the best kind there is, trust me

There's a certain truism that you can't be self-conscious in comedy. If I'm in it and if there's a scene that has a great set-up, I will go as far as somebody will let me.

It is easier to overcome people's judgments than to overcome our own self-judgment.

One thing that blocks flow is self-consciousness.

For me, self-gratification eventually took a backseat to trying to do something collaborative with other people, to trying to make something new.

It's been said to me that I'm self-destructive because I'll walk away from things that are good.

Self-love is so monogamous that no one is going to take the trouble to break the affair up for you.

A healing journey into the inner conflicts and contradictions that separate spirit from self.

One thing Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't is self-effacing. Everything has to be the biggest. His money, his muscles, his movies and his machines.

... I felt like a new man; but I was disappointed with the photographic documentation because I still saw always the old self.

Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction.

Your ears are yours alone. Tell others what you alone can hear. Your voice is yours alone. Tell others what only you can say. Your eyes are yours alone. Show others what only you can see.

Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware.

one of the tests of a theory is that, once grasped, it appears self-evident.

the self-assertive tendency is the dynamic expression of the holon's wholeness, the integrative tendency, the dynamic expression of its partness.

Self-righteousness in retrospect is easy--also cheap.

As the components of your life are stripped away, after all the ambitions and hopes vaporize, you reach a self-reflective starkness-- the repetitious plucking of a single overwound string.

There are three stages in the revelation of truth. The first is to be ridiculed, the second is to be resisted and the third is to be considered self-evident.

The self in a toroidal Universe can be both separate and connected with everything else.

Caution! Be very careful of false, meaningless, self-contradictory, and not even very funny warnings, like this one.

With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was becoming the world's first writer of self-contained ready-made quotations.

Fashion is ultimately a form of self-expression. Thats why I love trying out new things.

Admiration from my readers inspire me, and the only 'formula' I believe in towards making a good writer is: 'to thine own self be true!'

Who I am is what fulfills me and fulfills the vision I have of the world.

Guilt is altruism's stock in trade, and the inducing of guilt is its only means of self-perpetuati on.

The word which can never die on this earth, for it is the heart of it and the meaning and the glory. The sacred word: EGO.

You'd let the whole world perish rather than soil that immaculate self of yours with a single spot of which you'd have to be ashamed.

It is easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement.

I seek advice from my wife, who has been with me for 20 years and knows me better than I even know my own self.

There's no such thing as a self-made man. I've had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you.

If the foundation is firm the building can withstand calamities. The practice of yoga is the foundation so that the self is not shaken under any circumstances.

As long as you do not live totally in the body, you do not live totally in the Self.

Yoga is nothing if it is not perfect harmonyof the body, senses, mind and intellect, reason, consciousness and self. When all these are integrated that is true yoga.

The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator. To reach the goal he needs well developed and co-ordinated functioning of his body, senses, mind, reason and Self.

I probably couldn't have the same experience listening to that song because I'm self-conscious about some of my singing parts.

I agree that a lot of mainstream corporate sold hip-hop is self-hating.

[A]lthough the principle of equality has always been self-evident, it has never been self-executing.

For history tells us that while these truths may be self-evident, they've never been self-executing. That while freedom is a gift from God, it must be secured by his people here on earth.

We've gotta restore the American people's confidence in the ethics process by ensuring that political self-interest can no longer prevent politicians from enforcing ethics rules.

It is possible for leaders or regimes to be cruel, bigoted, twisted in their world views and still make rational calculations with respect to their limits and their self-preservation.

America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empire. Given our interdependence, any world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will inevitably fail.

I think a toxic message in a lot of Christianity has been that the self has to be annihilated in order for God to be found. I think that has been a toxic message.

war is, in some not yet entirely defined sense, a self-replicating pattern of behavior, possessed of a dynamism not unlike that of living things.

Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.

You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they're not self-sufficient.

Nothing looks as self-satisfied as a contented cat.

Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels.

Overall, one of the things that excites me most about self-publishing is that the highest-value use of my time in promoting the books will be found in writing more of them.