The Self Quotes

One who explores and knows all aspects of his life, is called self-realized.

Love is contagious. When I share love, it comes back to me multiplied. Love opens every door.

Respect yourself and others will respect you.

Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.

The secret to peace-of-mind is to not identify with anything other than your true self.

Avoid negative people at all costs. They are the greatest destroyers of self-confidence and self-esteem.

Our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self acceptance.

Ironically, it is the talented who have high aspirations, which are possible but exceedingly difficult to realize, who are especially vulnerable to self-dissatisfaction despite notable achievements.

The living moment is everything.

Good moral character is not something that we can achieve on our own. We need a culture that supports the conditions under which self-love and friendship flourish.

Learn to live with self and you will learn to live with others.

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

When my self is not with you, it is nowhere.

We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.

When you, awareness, are mastered by the deepest that you know the truth of, then you are no longer awareness. You are oneness aware mastering your self and your life.

SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense

The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control.

Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.

To feel beauty, to feel truth, that is self-remembering. Self-remembering is the awareness of the presence of God.

Success, I would find out, is interior. It has to do with self-fulfillment and the joy of living.

Man is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation which relates itself to itself.

Remember, every pro was first an amateur. Start your dream now!

Worry is nothing but practical infidelity. The person who worries reveals his lack of trust in God and that he is trusting too much in self.

Without proper self-evaluation, failure is inevitable.

Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness; and remember your strength.

Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Invest your energy in the things you can control.

There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.

You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.

I have gained self-confidence, courage and the support of my people.

Repect yourself... The rest will follow.

You are already That which you seek.

Be bold, be brave enough to be your true self.

Low self esteem is rooted in many things. One of them is not spending time to appreciate the gifts we've been given.

The biggest secret of self-esteem is this: Begin to appreciate other people more; show respect for any human being merely because he is a child of God and therefore a thing of value.

The most vital quality a soldier can possess is self-confidence.

What you pay attention to grows. Pay attention to your loveliness, your magnificent self. Begin now.

When you get before great people you don't talk a lot, you ask questions

Riches does not mean, having a great amount of property, but riches is self-contentment.

I don't want to be labeled as either a pansy or a heterosexual. Labeling is so self-limiting. We are what we do - not what we say we are.

Do you know how powerful you are?

Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.

True forgiveness is a self-healing process which starts with you and gradually extends to everyone else.

Real peace comes only to those who control the body and mind with self-discipline.

Nothing could be more misdirected than a self-directed life.