The Self Quotes

I usually know when I take the picture. There's always some kind of un-self-conscious thing going on, so that it doesn't look like they're there for the sake of having their portrait taken.

Self-belief? My parents gave it to me.

Thus you are led from moment to moment in your halter of preoccupation with self, and kindled instantly to displeasure, impatience or anger if an obstacle intervenes.

If you were not full of self-pity you would soon observe that we ourselves are to blame for all this evil, because we refuse to understand that it is in reality a good thing.

There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody.

Self-ruled Taiwan cannot be expected to accept such an affront to the legitimacy of its government and the self-determination of the Taiwanese people.

By contrast, China is a repressive regime that denies its citizens the essential freedoms of religion, political dissent and representative self-government.

There are still people who believe in that and wake up every day believing it's possible, and invest their whole selves in that.

I'm not as self-destructive as Dylan Thomas, but I've certainly been around that behavior enough to have found it a release. The thing that I really enjoyed was being able to play misery.

I can't crawl any further. You never crawled for me.

The price of self-destiny is never cheap, and in certain situations it is unthinkable. But to achieve the marvelous, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

I really love being in postproduction. First of all, it's all quite self-interested: You can protect things.

You almost have to create situations in order to write about them, so I live in a constant state of self-imposed poverty. I don't want to live any other way.

I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching

I read a lot and fell in love with comics and science fiction. I even self-published some of my comics when I was 16 or 17.

Movements toward freedom and the self-respect that comes from something other than what people think is their most important feature.

Britain's continuing membership of the Community would mean the end of Britain as a completely self-governing nation...

Haitians do not need development programs imposed on them by expatriates. Instead, they need help in developing as self-assured persons.

If someone is self-aware, then they can always continue to grow. If they're not self-aware, I think it's harder for them to evolve or adapt beyond who they already are.

Commit to "CAN I!" - Constant And Never-Ending Improvement.

Decisions decide destiny, there is no action without decision

See things the way they are not worse than they are

If you want to grow a muscle, you must lift something out of your comfort zone. Push beyond what is comfortable, if you don't there will be no growth.

Be yourself. That's it. I got about 45 [billionaires] . They are all different, all unique, and they are all self-made.

When you go on an extreme diet, your body's self-preservation mechanism responds by burning calories as slowly as possible. Of course, that makes it much more difficult to lose weight.

I've been looking for a savior in these dirty streets, looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets.

I think it's very easy to get self-conscious and stuck when you're doing everything on your own.

Anorexia is such a self-consuming, selfish disease. It's all about you. Becoming a mother, all of a sudden it wasn't about me anymore.

Better to inflict pain on myself than to let other people do it.

Government does best when it helps people help themselves. Human dignity is found not in a handout but in being able to do for one's self.

Han?” “Yeah, sweetie.” “How do you teach a man not to be a noble, long-suffering, self-sacrificing idiot?” “I don’t know, sweetie. Mostly I shoot them.” “I’ll consider that.

I've always been a very self-aware person.

I loved her enough to forget myself, my self pitying despairs, and be content that something she thought happy was going to happen.

When it comes to understanding and appreciating grace, our biggest problem is our so-called goodness...not our self-perceived badness.

The truth is, narratives of self-justification burble beneath more of our relationships and endeavors than we would care to admit.

My mother was pragmatic, focused and extremely, exceedingly practical, and she was the ultimate self-determining person.

One recalls how much the creative impulse of the best-sellers depends upon self-pity. It is an emotion of great dramatic potential.

Mark Twain created a new type of literature and not a lot of people can say that. Not a lot of people can say they're absolutely original and completely self-made.

I consider myself more exportant than important.

It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.

I LOVE RIHANNA. I LOVE THAT SHE IS HERSELF WITH NO APOLOGIES. HER SENSE OF STYLE AND SELF IS UNIQUE. I LOVE HOW SHE TRANSFORMS HERSELF WITH EACH ALBUM, EACH CAMPAIGN. ALWAYS EVOLVING. A TRUE ICON.

It's thrilling and it's an honor to be part of something bigger than your own self.

The experience of giving birth itself made me feel more womanly.

Fantasy plunders the well of our deepest selves for existent truth instead of creating new truths out of the illusory fabric of recent events or the flow of society.

Expectations tend to be self-fulfilling.

Self awakening enables you to see the human scene as it is, not as it appears to be, which frees you of its chaos.

Guilt [is] a tool, rather than a weapon against the self.

I have realized that part of being Dauntless is being willing to make things more difficult for yourself in order to be self-sufficient.

There is no real lasting joy in self-seeking.

Man does not understand nor accept immortality except on condition of self-remembrance.