The Self Quotes

George smiles to himself, with entire self-satisfaction. Yes, I am crazy, he thinks. That is my secret; my strength.

Most of us don't live our lives with one, integrated self that meets the world, we're a whole bunch of selves.

If I spent my time worrying about what other people would think of my work, I would be too self-conscious to write.

Censorship, I believe, is the most dangerous enemy to all human communication, and piety of intention is probably the most dangerous, the most virulent and the most self-satisfying.

[Donald Trump] even quoted a tweet from a self-identified 16-year-old as a way to justify crazy unsupported claims about the popular vote.

The last three films I've done are about self-immolation.

The young Dickens was so alive, so self-confident, so funny.

Both of us, me and Friedrich Nietzsche being writers, if we weren't capable of some strategic self-deception, we would have moved on to more lucrative careers long ago.

The test of a civilized person is first self-awareness, and then depth after depth of sincerity in self-confrontation.

The minds that rise and become really great are never self-satisfied, but still continue to strive.

I do believe in self-help.

There's not a woman in the world who hasn't felt self-conscious about something! We as women all experience it but we never talk about it.

The self-surmounter can never put up with the man who has ceased to be dissatisfied with himself.

I was struggling with drugs, I had a lot on my plate, and you know, I was using unhealthy ways to kind of self-medicate and deal with a lot of heavy duty stuff in my life.

I think there's a weird self-affirmation thing that happens in popular music in general. It seems like every song I hear on the radio is like, "Listen to me roar!" or "This is my fight song!"

My feeling is that I think writers in general tend to be self-conscious and it takes a bit of a leap of faith or just not giving a sh-t to write something you know people are going to criticize.

One is least sure of one's self, sometimes, when one is most positive.

For in this walk, this voyage, it is yourself, the profound history of your 'self,' that now as always you encounter.

Although self-reported endorsement of sexist attitudes didn’t predict hiring bias, self-reported objectivity in decision making did.

I don't know an actor who hasn't let himself down at some point. I imagine it's the same in politics. There's always the potential to self sabotage.

Love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.

Music is the very cement that has not just held the black community together but holds black selves together in a fundamental sense.

The black church often has reinforced certain self images that are damaging to black peoples' beauty, black peoples' confidence.

To try deliberately for self-actualization is like trying very hard to fall asleep or to have a good time.

All reasoning ends in an appeal to self-evidence.

People don't care about being duped as long as they're happy, which is the shortest form of happiness; hence 'self-duprication' becomes a habit.

His [Sam Fuller] self-discipline was amazing. No matter what happened, he'd always go out to his Royal Upright typewriter and just keep working on his stories, his "yarns" as he called them.

The worst things weren't outside of you.

Our prayers may be an index of how small and self-centered our world is.

A geek is a person, male or female, with an abiding, obsessive, self-effacing, even self-destroying love for something besides status

Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions.

In my very own self, I am part of my family.

Let there be an end ... of all this welter of pity, which is only self-pity reflected onto some obvious surface.

For us to go to Italy and to penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery

It is no good casting out devils. They belong to us, we must accept them and be at peace with them.

Nobody can have the soul of me. My mother has had, and nobody can have it again. Nobody can come into my very self again, and breathe me like an atmosphere.

Self confidence plays an important part in every aspect of man's life.

When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves.

Self-rule means that China must stop its intensive effort to colonize Tibet with Chinese settlers and must allow Tibetans to hold responsible positions in the government of Tibet.

One of the most effective ways to overcome anxiety is to try to shift the focus of attention away from self and toward others.

We believe in self creation. That's why Buddhists believe in the Four Noble Truths.

Without changing one's self, without peace in one's self, world peace is not possible.

I must have dialogue with the Chinese government, and dialogue requires compromise. Therefore, I'm speaking for genuine self-rule, not for independence.

I remember walking out in front of that crowd, all the parents faces and the applause, and folding my little self in half and thinking, I could get used to this. And I just never stopped.

Education (the institution) has now adopted values, attitudes, and practices that make any rigorous understanding of the human self and life impossible.

I can have fairly crippling self-criticism. It doesn't really put me in a vulnerable state, I just get glum and intolerable, but it certainly is a vulnerability.

I'm just kind of lazy and messed up and self-managed - self-mismanaged.

Really good musicians don't think of "self-reflection."

I think we need to think about our physical activity as a reward, as something enjoyable and something we look forward to doing, not something that we regard as self-flogging.

I know a lot of people don't listen to music when they're writing because it distracts them, but for me it's almost a way to get into the self-hypnotic state that I need to be in to write.