The Self Quotes

I was always rather outspoken. I worried about what people thought of me but there really wasn't room for a lot of self-doubt.

There has to be some self-denial.

Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.

Attitude ... is the vanguard of your true self.

Get still, get calm, and let your true self out.

Self-government requires qualities of self-denial and restraint.

Man is emphatically self-made.

[My novels] introduce levels of intelligence ... moral doubt [and] self-doubt, which may not pertain [to real-world espionage].

There's a real self-serving element to hip-hop that threatens its life span.

Comparison is the death of true self-contentment.

Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one.

...no gift will ever buy back a man's love when you have removed his self-love.

Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.

Nourishing the soul is the process of drinking at the life stream, coming back to one's true self, embracing the whole of one's experience - good, bad, or ugly; painful or exalted; dull or boring.

I promote my own self-hatred.

But the day I can't shrug off a twinge of self-pity, is the day I'm washed up for keeps.

There is no real joy that does not involve self-denial and self-discipline

Nothing Exposes our true self more than how we treat each other in the home.

Self Pity is the most miserable party to go to, because, in case you haven't noticed, you're the only one who is there.

I get literally a physical sensation of low self-esteem that is a result of not engaging the world and getting comfortable that way.

We cannot love others as others unless we possess suficient self-love, a love we learn from being loved in infancy.

People - and I include myself - get fat because they choose pleasure over self-denial.

What was so miraculous about a relationship that was based more on my gratitude than on mutual self respect?

Brands are selling our self-esteem back to us, through association. We need to own our brands.

There are few things less stylish than a boring, self absorbed twit.

You were firing questions at me today, trying to get inside my head. You asked if I believe in God. I told you of course I do - I've always had a strong sense of self

I'm not a 21-year-old angsty self-destructive rapscallion anymore.

I'm very comfortable as a singer. In fact, I think it's more - I identified my self-esteem, my self more in those ways when I was growing up. I really - it was kind of my calling card as a kid.

I feel like I've been able to be my true self and discover what I can honestly bring to the table by working with other women.

I'm not a perfectionist by a long shot, but self-doubt is a large part of my creative process.

No day-to-day mishaps or indignities can really compromise your sense of self after you've survived a deep tragedy.

Ladies, your self-worth is like your price tag. If he's not offering what your worth, he can't have you. No bargains, no sales.

Deep down you know you can be remarkable. You shouldn't settle for anything less than your best self, reaching ever closer to your potential -- whether as a leader or in any other part of your life.

When it comes to content, the best marketers know that self promotion is good!

The number one goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintain their self-esteem. You don't hit a man on the head when you've got your fingers between his teeth.

I'm not a woman whose self-worth comes from her dress size.

To be an actor, a lot of times it's a strange combination of high confidence and low self-esteem. Which is a weird combination to have, but I think it's sort of very common among actors.

The transformation toward eternal life is gradual. The heavy gross energy of body, mind, and spirit must first be purified and uplifted. When the energy ascends... then self mastery can be sought.

I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there. When AIDS happened, I was treated like an outcast. And I don't like that feeling.

What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.

We all get self-centered.

Magic, if that was the right word, often rises and falls on your own belief in your abilities. I've seen very powerful people completely crippled by self-doubt.

There is no pain compared to that of loving a woman who makes her body accessible to one and yet who is incapable of delivering her true self -- because she does not know where to find it.

Keep your sense of self; don't get caught up in what people want you to be.

I think that social networking makes people more connected, yet more distant, so there are people with less ties to real friend groups and less a sense of self.

Self-confidence can be crippling.

Being famous gives you a lot of illusions of false self, of self-importance, a grandiosity, it becomes difficult to stay humble and real. You see so many people who don't succeed.

Self-preservation and self-denial: the basis of all political economy.

I don't think I am narcissistic. I think I have low self-esteem.

What impels every man to the utmost exertion in the service of his fellow man. Is, in the market not compulsion on the part of gendarmes, hangmen and penal courts, it is self interest.