The Self Quotes

Those who claim to write about something larger and more significant than the self sometimes fail to comprehend the dimensions of self.

The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves.

Your greatest creation is yourself. Like any great work of art, creating a great self means putting in hard work, every day, for years.

In martial arts, the biggest enemy is self. Inside you struggle because you want to prove something.

You do not have to struggle to reach God, but you do have to struggle to tear away the self-created veil that hides him from you

If you believe in yourself anything is possible.

We are fully justified in valuing the life and person of an intended victim more highly than the life of a pernicious assailant. The attacker must be stopped. At once and completely.

The more you say, the less people remember.

Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self- solitude is the enemy of well- being.

Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients.

Let America realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

The 3Ss of Winning in business are speed, simplicity, and self-confidence.

With training and self discipline; clear focus and confidence; problems can be overcome and even lead to unexpected gains

Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk youth, and builds the creative skills that are required of a 21st century workforce

The main cause of failure is the inability to deal with self-doubt.

If you can have faith in your real self, you'll suffer less. Be bold about who you really are.

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life.

You'll never know how close you are to victory if you give up.

It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.

I had the chance to make every possible mistake and figure out a way to recover from it. Once you realize there is life after mistakes, you gain a self-confidence that never goes away.

Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.

Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival.

Man is not going to wait passively for millions of years before evolution offers him a better brain.

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

I prefer to rely on my memory. I have lived with that memory a long time, I am used to it, and if I have rearranged or distorted anything, surely that was done for my own benefit.

All good work requires self-revelation.

A story is told as much by silence as by speech.

All children are born to grow, to develop, to live, to love, and to articulate their needs and feelings for their self-protection

Who you are is of greater importance than what you do.

Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!

Your self-worth is determined by you. You don't have to depend on someone to tell you who you are.

Self-esteem is different than conceit. Conceit is the weirdest disease in the world. It makes everyone sick except the one who has it.

I find drug use disrespectful, self destructive and weak. I want no part of it. I believe in complete respect for myself and others.

A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.

The imagination is not an escape, but a return to the richness of our true selves; a return to reality.

Like the bodies of dancers or athletes, the minds of readers are genuinely happy and self-possessed only when cavorting around, doing their stretches and leaps and jumps to the tune of words.

How can one be pleasing to God when one is inflated with pride and self-love under the pretense of striving for Gods glory, while in fact one is seeking ones own glory?

Hair brings one’s self-image into focus; it is vanity’s proving ground. Hair is terribly personal, a tangle of mysterious prejudices

I wasn’t old enough to realize that I could be my terrible self and have people love me for that.

We must not only be patient with others, infinitely patient, but also with our own poor selves.

Being an entrepreneur is sexy... for those who haven't done it. In reality it's gritty, tough work where you will be filled with self doubt. Entrepreneurs are survivors.

Very few people love others for what they are; rather, they love what they lend them, their own selves, their own idea of them.

The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities

I think it's the mark of a great player to be confident in tough situations.

Someone once asked me how I hold my head up so high after all I have been through. I said it's because no matter what, I AM a SURVIVOR, NOT a victim.

Painting is a means of self-enlightenment.

I got into cooking out of self-defense.

The cyborg is a kind of disassembled and reassembled, postmodern collective and personal self. This is the self feminists must code.