The Self Quotes

This civilization is such that one has only to be patient and it will be self-destroyed.

It is the function of God Rama to destroy evil, wherever it occurs and it is equally the function of God Rama to give to his devotees like Bibhishana a free charter of irrevocable self-government.

Voluntary service of others demands the best of which one is capable, and must take precedence over service of self.

It is beyond my power to induce in you a belief in God. There are certain things which are self proved and certain which are not proved at all.

If every component part of the nation claims the right of self-determination for itself, there is no one nation and there is no independence.

Swaraj of a people means the sum total of the Swaraj (self-rule) of individuals.

In a self-respecting India, is not every woman's virtue as much every man's concern as his own sister's?

Your character must be above suspicion and you must be truthful and self-controlled.

Any act of injury done from self-interest, whether amounting to killing or not, is doubtless himsa.

If we were strong, self-respecting and not susceptible to frightfulness, the foreign rulers would have been powerless for mischief.

You will eat not to satisfy your palate but your hunger. A self-indulgent man lives to eat; a self-restrained man eats to live.

When anything assumes the strength of a creed, it becomes self-sustained and derives the needed support from within.

What I want to achieve, what I have been striving and pining for these thirty years, is self-realization, that is, to see God face to face.

All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint.

A complete fast is a complete and literal denial of self. It is the truest prayer.

To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception.

My Swaraj will be not be a result of murder of others but a voluntary act of continuous self-sacrifice.

The highest truth needs no communicating, for it is by its very nature self-propelling. It radiates its influence silently as the rose its fragrance without the intervention of a medium.

Self-realization is the object of the Gita, as it is of all scriptures.

At the centre of nonviolence is a force which is self-acting.

Man does not live by bread alone. Many prefer self-respect to food.

I've done a lot of bad things in the past, and that troubles me. It is often before I could say I was a self.

The idea of the self interests me a great deal. What is the self? And finding yourself, and which self? In a way, we're more than one self, but you somehow try to get to a rock bottom self.

I don't mind being goofy and silly. I love to make people laugh and I'm not self-conscious.

Growing up in the public spotlight and having insecurities like every other girl, I really know what it's like to feel self-conscious.

I wanna be with you, if only for a night to be the one who's in your arms to hold you tight. I wanna be with you, there's nothing left to say.

Malcolm X never renounced and never stepped away from a strong commitment to black nationalism and black self-determination. That's absolutely clear if you do any analysis of his speeches.

Albums, with me, have never had an easy birth. Especially when all the songs are self-written songs.

There's something about cats' self-sufficiency and their seemingly individualistic ways that I find compelling.

The most difficult secret for a man to keep is the opinion he has of himself.

Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself; when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.

Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life, - there, if one must speak out, the real man.

As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self take the shape Of every creature in whom he is present.

I am not racked with self-loathing. Some issues of guilt and shame, but I'm a pretty good guy.

Most of the time, our limitations are self-imposed.

Whoever has a spiritual gift and compassionate toward one who does not have it guards his gift through his compassion. But whoever is proud of his gift loses it through self-opinion.

The real friend is another self.

If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.

A true friend is a sort of second self.

When we successfully deceive others, they are not aware of it; the same is true with self-deception.

You refuse to own yourself, you permit others to do it for you

Nobody quite knows the truth about cats purring, but it does seem to be also a self-healing thing for them, which is why, when you take your cat to the vet and it's frightened, it will purr.

I think self-deprecation is such a disease, and I want to cure everybody of it and so that's my contribution.

I was raised to be self-conscious about weight. Then as I got older and started doing television, it became a career issue, like, 'You have to lose weight or you'll lose that job.'

To talk over a quarrel, with its inevitable accompaniment of self-justification, is too much like handling cobwebs to be very successful.

In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness.

Self-complacen cy is fatal to progress.

It is often the case with finer natures, that when the fire of the spirit dies out with increasing age, the power of the intellect is unaltered or increased.

The integration of the Negro into American society is one of the most exciting challenges to self-development and self-mastery that any nation of people ever faced.

... giving up alcohol or cigarettes is a lead-pipe cinch compared to the renunciation of complacence by a former (self-appointed) elite.