The Self Quotes

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

Everyone, whether he is self-denying or self-indulgent, is seeking after the Beloved. Every place may be the shrine of love, whether it be mosque or synagogue.

The self-hatred that destroys is the waste of unfulfilled promise.

Failure is a judgment, an opinion. It stems from your fears, which can be eliminated by love-love for yourself, love for what you do, love for others, and love for your planet.

The fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter.

It's proper that people have friends, friendships without self-interest. Without friends, life is too lonely.

For every look at self, take 10 looks at Christ.

All genius is simple. It involves close observation and a momentous act of self trust.

Food, clothing and shelter — these are the basic needs. Beyond that, if you want anything, it is the beginning of self-deception.

I think that everyone has the right to fall in love at any age. But in life you have to learn how to control your emotions. You must know self-discipline.

We don't call it sin today, we call it self-expression.

Love for Kuwait is always prior to self-love, money, and children.. In the heart of every Kuwaiti, Kuwait's love grew it's seeds, spread its roots and branches all around our good land

Repentance is more than just sorrow for the past; repentance is a change of mind and heart, a new life of denying self and serving the Savior as king in self's place.

Every chance you get you seem to hurt me more and more, but each hurt makes my love stronger than before.

Do not grieve over someone who changes all of the sudden. It might be that he has given up acting and returned to his true self.

Being confident and believing in your own self-worth is necessary to achieving your potential.

I refuse to follow the rules where society tries to control people with low self esteem.

This quality of self-denial in pursuit of a longer-term goal and, indeed, the willpower to maintain the denial, is excellent training for the boardroom.

My friends tell me that I've calmed down, that I seem more centered. I don't know, I think my inner self was more hollow before, which made me more scattered, and more needy to get laughs.

You only grow when you are alone.

You were born to be real, not to be perfect. You are here to be you, not to live someone else's life.

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for one's self-respect to be a punching bag.

Self-love is the source of all our other loves.

Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.

The victorious Christian neither exalts nor downgrades himself. His interests have shifted from self to Christ.

I am a human being, not a human doing. Don't equate your self-worth with how well you do things in life. You aren't what you do. If you are what you do, then when you don't . . , you aren't.

I really don't know how to be anyone else, and whenever I try to be anyone else, I fail miserably. Or I disappoint myself. It doesn't build my self-esteem, and it doesn't help me grow me at all.

The secret is to have a sense of yourself, your real self, your unique self. And not just once in a while, or once a day, but all through the day, the week and life.

When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.

I've always loved butterflies, because they remind us that it's never too late to transform ourselves.

One who loves his own Self loves the whole world.

Anyone who willfully and maliciously attacks another without sufficient cause jeopardize the lives of others.

To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things is enlightenment.

Oh, that we fully understood how very opposite our self-righteousness is to the designs of God!

Hollywood gives a young girl the aura of one giant, self-contained orgy farm, its inhabitants dedicated to crawling into every pair of pants they can find.

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.... We'd better take the time to fashion revolutionary selves, revolutionary lives, revolutionary relationships. Mouth don't win the war.

Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.

Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.

I believe one has to escape oneself to discover oneself.

Composing gives me great pleasure... there is nothing that surpasses the joy of creation, if only because through it one wins hours of self-forgetfulness, when one lives in a world of sound.

The desire to be self-supporting and financially independent is a divine desire

Self-reliance is the best defence against the pressures of the moment.

Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self.

I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.

The enslaving of the other is also the enslaving of the self.

The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.