The Self Quotes

I think the sort of person you want at a party is someone who is self-aware, polite and has a basic knowledge of table manners. And that goes for both men and women.

Keep the people ignorant and afraid and control and power becomes a detail - a self generating byproduct of the people's hysteria.

She doesn’t think she’s worthy to live. But she doesn’t realize, she is life.

I think I'm incredibly self-aware to a fault.

We can enjoy a self-assurance that doesn't depend on the state of things outside ourselves, be it downturns or booms or whatever.

To forgive is indeed the best form of self-interest since anger, resentment, and revenge are corrosive of that summum bonum, the greatest good.

I think we need to grow in our self-assurance that is not scared of being challenged, that the truth we uphold can stand up to the closest possible scrutiny.

Tabloid photos capture people at their most self-conscious and disoriented; in real life, Paris Hilton is like an elegant paper crane.

You can't defend the indefensible. Anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical.

Disassociating, mindfulness, transcendence-whatever the label-it's a sort of loophole in our contract with reality, a form of self-rescue.

A self is a frightening thing to waste, it's the lens through which one's whole life is viewed, and few people are willing to part with it, in death, or even imaginatively, in art.

[Our self-image is] that gap between intention and effect

Our democracy if self-cleansing. If you don't like it, be a candidate, or support a candidate.

When Thales was asked what was difficult, he said, To know one's self. And what was easy, To advise another.

Being born was the worse and the first mistake I ever made. The doctor didn't spank me, he just slapped me in the face.

If you can read, you can find books on anything you want. You can self-educate even if you can't afford to go to school.

Personally I am not very self-reliant when it comes to internet and computers.

There are very few self-made millionaires, if any, who have not taken risks which would make the rest of us unable to sleep at night, or keep our food down.

I'd like to lose interest in myself.

World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. but nothing is self-contained.

Even when you self-destruct, you want to fail more, lose more, die more than others, stink more than others.

Rule of thumb: if you think something is clever and sophisticated beware-it is probably self-indulgence.

Self-criticism sessions were held, but these produced more criticism than could usefully be absorbed or accomodated.

Reichert offers us a Heracleitean stream of self-reflection into which we can step more than once, for we can see ourselves empathically mirrored in it: his interiority is our own.

[We need to ] select immigrants based on their likelihood of success in U.S. society and their ability to be financially self- sufficient.

The odd thing, my dear," said her father, "is that once one has ceased trying to protect self, one finds one's self in a very comfortable position." "Where?" asked Kale "In Wulder's care.

Living in a small town anywhere means preserving one's self behind a mask.

She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more bitterly, that young girl's genuine independence, largeness, scope, and courage.

If a child lives with criticism, he learns to condemn. If he lives with hostility, he learn s to fight. If a child lives with shame, he learn to fell ashamed.

New technologies are wreaking havoc on employment figures - from EZpasses ousting toll collectors to Google-controlled self-driving automobiles rendering taxicab drivers obsolete.

The best thing about bugs is their lack of self consciousness, also the ability to fly doesn't hurt.

The downside of aging is a slower metabolism and achy joints.The upside is a knowledge of self that prevents one from behaving like a baboon.

When maintaining a relationship means diminishing your self, it's time to walk.

Fake titties are inversely proportioned to their owners level of self esteem. This being said, part of me loves them.

Rest in peace to Heath Ledger but I'm no joker

I learned how to believe in myself. Learned how to set goals, you know, self help books man. I just read every single one I can get a hold of, and I still do.

Chess hasn't really influenced my literature. It's true, there's a character in Pigeon Post, an old chess player; but it's more of a wink, a self-portrait and not much more.

I'm proud to call myself a feminist and am proud to say I have two young boys who are self-proclaimed feminists as well.

The voice of the Constitution is the inescapably solemn self-consciousness of the people giving the law unto themselves.

There are moments when the inner life actually 'pays,' when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.

Self-pity? I see no moral objections to it, the smell drives people away, but that's a practical objection, and occasionally an advantage.

A road that perhaps more than any other leads to self atrophy is undedicated money.

A self - a me - exists in every thought and every emotion. Suffering arises through complete identification with thinking and emotions.

I've always had a great love of music since childhood. It changes every day.. every time you write, it's a new experience. It's a self expression.

Most timidities have such secret compensations and Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion to the outer self depreciation.

Charity, till then, had been conscious only of a vague self-disgust and a frightening physical distress; now, of a sudden, there came to her the grave surprise of motherhood.

Make ones center of life inside ones self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity.

Stay awhile! 'Tis sweet,. . . The rare occasion, when our hearts can speak Our selves unseen, unseeing!

Go little book, thy self present, As child whose parent is unkent: To him that is the president Of noblesse and of chivalry, And if that Envy bark at thee, As sure it will, for succour flee.

The man whom nature's self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.