The Self Quotes

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.

True wealth is having your health, and knowledge of self.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

Anyone who tells you to deny yourself is from Satan.

I consider myself a crayon... I may not be your favorite color but one day you'll need me to complete your picture.

We will never know our full potential unless we push ourselves to find it. It's this self discovery that inevitably takes us to the wildest places on earth.

Yoga is for internal cleansing, not external exercising. Yoga means true self-knowledge.

Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven't been before.

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.

The ultimate self is free from sin, free from old age, free from death and grief, free from hunger and thirst, which desires nothing and imagines nothing.

It's not my responsibility to be beautiful. I'm not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.

Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone.

People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Become one with eternity. Become part of your environment. Take off your clothes. Forget yourself. Make love. Self-destruction is the only way to peace.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

Ceaseless work, analysis, reflection, writing much, endless self-correction, that is my secret.

Someday, everything will make perfect sense. So for now, laugh at the confusion, smile through the tears, be strong and keep reminding your self that everything happens for a reason.

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be.

Be yourself, don't take anything from anyone, and never let them take you alive.

In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.

The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves.

We spoke and acted as if, given the opportunity for self-government, we would quickly create utopias. Instead injustice, even tyranny, is rampant.

When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.

The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.

We are what we repeatedly do... excellence, therefore, isn't just an act, but a habit and life isn't just a series of events, but an ongoing process of self-definition.

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them long and long.

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.

I grew up in them streets, like everyone else but instead of pushin' drugs, I pushed knowledge of self

Knowledge of one's identity, one's self, community, nation, religion, and God, is the true meaning of resurrection, while ignorance of it signifies hell.

Self-actualizing people have a deep feeling of identification, sympathy, and affection for human beings in general. They feel kinship and connection, as if all people were members of a single family.

The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

The sense of identity provides the ability to experience one's self as something that has continuity and sameness, and to act accordingly.

Feeling real is more than existing; it is finding a way to exist as oneself... and to have a self into which to retreat for relaxation.

There is no use of simply acquiring titles or amassing wealth if one has no self-respect and scientific knowledge.

The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille

Anything can be art. Anything can be self-expression . Now you take the weapon and run with it.

That which is good for all and any one, For whomsoever- that is good for me. . . What I hold good for self, I should for all. Only Law Universal is true law.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.

There is no room for God in a mind that's full of self.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

The motive, principle, and end of the religious life is to make an absolute gift of self to God in a self-forgetting love, to end one's own life in order to make room for God's life.

Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine.

The world is so full of people who are grabbing and self-seeking. So the rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage. He has little competition.