The Self Quotes

Everything you need is within reach, the key is whose going to reach

Back to my childhood where those monsters reside. They snack on innocence and dine on self esteem.

I have come to realize that in every person there is something fine and pure and noble, along with a desire for self-fulfillment.

When I feel something very intensely or deeply or personally, I can go to extremes of self-expression or self-analysis by writing a poem - more than I can just talking to somebody or writing prose.

Researchers here in New York created a robot that actually passed a self-awareness test. So if you're keeping score, that's robots: 1, Donald Trump, 0.

Being Christian towards poor people means trying to improve their lives and give them back some self-respect.

Self-affirmation cannot be found in love; it is a prior condition of genuine love.

Writing is all about self-editing; it's all about being present being aware of what's happening

I think acting has helped me come out of my shell because when I play a character, I can't be self-conscious.

I myself love to read those Victorian novels which go on and on, and you don't read them in one sitting. You might read one over the course of a summer, but that isn't what I want to write.

I make myself suffer with a lot of self doubt.

Fame is a by-product which you have to deal with in a sensible way. To believe that it is anything more significant than that is deeply self-deceptive.

Self-consciousness can destroy a performance. Getting rid of that is always good.

Anger doesn't demand action. When you act in anger, you lose self-control.

There's no one more obnoxious and self-righteous than the self-made man. And no one more admirable.

The next frontier is our own selves.

History is the self-consciousness of humanity.

Existence is self-enjoyment, by means of some object distinct from ourselves.

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

The policy of adapting one's self to circumstances makes all ways smooth.

It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.

The realization of the self is only possible if one is productive, if one can give birth to one's own potentialities.

A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his own way.

How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what you're like.

Whether one show one's self a man of genius in science or compose a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, the deed, is living and can live on.

To having no self esteem to feeling wonderful about yourself doing what you love to do and making the money that you want to be making. That is my contribution to humanity.

I never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant.

I can't bear to be on a train without a book", she announced. " It's a form of self-defence in a way" .

Children need parents who model self-discipline rather than preach it. They learn from what their parents are actually willing to do; not from what they say they do.

Confidence equals contentment with self; contentment is knowing you have all you need for the present circumstances.

Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.

One way to overcome our natural self-centeredness is to try to see things from other people's perspectives.

Great leaders always have self-discipline -without exception.

I think that self-discipline has to be accompanied by passion.

Tears that are shed in time of affliction are rarely tears of penitence, but more likely they are shed out of self pity and pain or sorrow.

I am the self-consumer of my woes.

No, actors go out with actresses as a form of self-flagellation.

You always feel like your 18-year-old self in some sense. And that's what walking through New York on a June evening feels like - you feel like it's Friday and you're 17 years old.

To really evolve as awareness, be just like your own being in a self like yours and on a planet like this one.

The more that you bypass of your own mechanisms, the more in your self that will come apart.

If you die of cancer with only openness and softness in your heart, you will live and die integrating your self.

What moves you, you move. That brings your sexuality into your being, through your heart, and that movement brings your being, through your heart, into your self.

The source of love isn’t in your self. It isn’t in your experience. It’s in you.

Your past determines your future unless you’re clearly moving past your self and responding to what you know in your heart.

When you're true to your heart, you're infusing your self with meaning.

The known unseen within becomes structural in what is seen: a being functioning as a self, in person, in this world.

If you move as a being in every experience of your self, your being replaces your self.

When your heart softens and opens, your being becomes matter in your self. That is the change of matter and what matters to you in your self will change.

Your self is yours to integrate. To integrate your self you need to be, in the midst of your experience, a little bit like your own being.

When you are gentled and quieted in your heart, you are incapable of relating to disappointment, incapable of feeling sorry for your self.