The Self Quotes

The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

The clearer the rules and the limits enforced by parents, the higher the child's self-esteem. The more freedom the child had, the lower his self-esteem.

But the real secret to total gorgeousness is to believe in yourself, have self confindence, and try to be secure in your decisions and thoughts.

A woman's sense of self is defined through her feelings and the quality of her relationships.

We even refuse to be our true self with God- and then wonder why we lack intimacy with him.

I think therapy is a rather misguided notion of capitalist societies whereby the self-indulgent examination of one's life supersedes the actual living of said life.

Painting is a self-disciplined activity that you have to learn by yourself.

If you step up the self-education curve, you will come up with more answers than you can use.

Freedom is to be free of attachments, and the main attachment is to the 'I'-self.

Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.

You are the way you are because that is what you believe about yourself.

Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation.

I keep calling it the I-thought. It's a thought. There is no I. This gives you a clue.

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love.

Whether it is your work, your love, or your life - unless you throw your entire self into it, you will never know what it is.

Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.

The fact is that you are not the body. The Self does not move but the world moves in it. You are only what you are.

The spirit of meditation is the combating of self-willed thinking-it is a combat against the weight of one's feelings.

Even when you have gone as far as you can, and everything hurts, and you are staring at the specter of self-doubt, you can find a bit more strength deep inside you, if you look closely enough.

If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.

In yourself right now is all the place you've got.

Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.

I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.

The greater a child’s terror, and the earlier it is experienced, the harder it becomes to develop a strong and healthy sense of self.

Never put an age limit on your dreams.

Remember you come here having already understood the necessity of struggling with yourself — only with yourself. Therefore thank everyone who gives you the opportunity.

The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.

Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.

When we begin to know ourselves in an open and self-supportive way, we take the first step to encourage our children to know themselves

The desire for beauty, the hunger for union, the passion to be part of something greater than self, all arise out of our bent to worship.

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualizat ion.

Enlightenment doesnt occur from sitting around visualizing images of light, but from integrating the darker aspects of the Self into the conscious personality.

The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.

Identity is not inherent. It is shaped by circumstance and sensitivity and resistance to self-pity.

I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me, until the last small twig has grown.

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

What one seems to want in art, in experiencing it, is the same thing that is necessary for its creation, a self-forgetful, perfectly useless concentration.

This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all sight of reality and reason.

There is abundant testimony that if we choose love rather than self, we gain immeasurably.

Your constant utilization of thought to give continuity to your separate self is you. There is nothing there inside you other than that.

Nobody's perfect, but all of us can be better than we are.

Murder begins where self-defense ends.

The foolish being who lives making even the slightest distinction between the supreme Self and his own self will always be subject to fear.