The Self Quotes

Freedom is the greatest fruit of self sufficiency.

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

Martial art is a form of expression, an expression from your inner self to your hands and legs.

When you please others in hopes of being accepted, you lose you self-worth in the process.

I used to be self conscious about my height, but then I thought, f*** that, I'm Harry Potter.

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge.

My scars show pain and suffering, but they also show my will to survive. They're part of my history that'll always be there.

It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

As I see it every single day you do one in every of two issues: construct well being or produce illness in your self.

When you let go of the egoic self what you're getting in exchange is the whole universe.

We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.

When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness. And when we stop clinging, we can begin to be happy.

Only love for Christ has the power to incapacitate the sturdy love for self that is the bane of every sinner, and only the grace of Christ has the power to produce that love.

No one can drive us crazy unless we give them the keys.

Competing is exciting and winning is exhilarating, but the true prize will always be the self-knowledge and understanding that you have gained along the way.

Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves.

I do believe that an actor, who is self aware, will never do a film that is not an extension of his personality.

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

Night and gin and music-the right setting for peeling off the thin clinging layers of bullshit and finding one's way down closer to the essential self.

A man's sense of self is defined through his ability to achieve results.

Shake off the self-pity, shake off the defeat and get ready for God to do something new. He is going to pay you back for every injustice.

Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting.

You are not free until your past has no effect on your future

The more a human being feels himself a self, tries to intensify this self and reach a never-attainable perfection, the more drastically he steps out of the center of being.

Generally we waste our lives, distracted from our true selves, in endless activity. Meditation is the way to bring us back to ourselves, where we can really experience and taste our full being.

Be that self which one truly is.

When I retire, the only thing that concerns me is that no one can say that I was a bad team-mate or disrespectful or self-important.

My main life lesson from investing: self-interest is the most powerful force on earth, and can get people to embrace and defend almost anything.

It was the slave's continuing desire for recognition that was the motor which propelled history forward, not the idle complacency and unchanging self-identity of the master

Now how do we cultivate an aggressive response? I think the answer is indignation... Your response, if attacked, must not be fear, it must be anger.

Under any sort of attack, keep cool. And if you must shoot, shoot with precision.

For a person to feel responsible for his actions, he must sense that the behavior has flowed from the self.

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.

Excuses are a list of self imposed obstacles that prevent you from having a better life.

Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community.

When a man takes an oath... he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water.

The idolatry the exists in a man's heart always wants to lead him away from his Savior and back to self-reliance no matter how pitiful that self-reliance is or how many times it has betrayed him.

I was so self -conscious, every time football players went into a huddle, I thought they were talking about me.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.

Being on time to appointments and meetings is a phase of self-discipline and an evidence of self-respect. Punctuality is a courteous compliment the intelligent person pays to his associates.

The gift of self cannot be given to us. It is an incomparable gift that has already been given. We have possessed it from the beginning.

One has to kill a few of one’s natural selves to let the rest grow — a very painful slaughter of innocents.

Nobody ever died of discomfort, yet living in the name of comfort has killed more ideas, more opportunities, more actions, and more growth than everything else combined. Comfort kills!

The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

Everything is music for the born musician.

I want to look into a mirror that will love my own reflection harder than I hate myself.

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.