The Self Quotes

The people and successes in your life mirror your beliefs.

Every time a champion makes a decision they have a chance to learn something new, regardless of the outcome.

There is a God part in you. The consciousness. The pure Self. Learn to listen the voice of that Power.

Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.

You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.

Reading gives one something to think about other than one's self.

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

Everything that happens to you is a reflection of what you believe about yourself. We cannot outperform our level of self-esteem. We cannot draw to ourselves more than we think we are worth.

Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.

I am the only real truth I know.

I've finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?

Vanity is the quicksand of reason.

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

If you restore balance in your own self, you will be contributing immensely to the healing of the world.

I'm driven by passion. I mean, I am tired right now. I work to a point of abandon. I am fueled by my understanding of the need for self-expression that exists for young people.

I've come to understand that life is best lived, not conceptualized.

Healthy striving is self-focused: "How can I improve?" Perfectionism is other-focused: "What will they think?"

We are the eyes of the cosmos. So that in a way, when you look deeply into somebody's eyes, you're looking deep into yourself, and the other person is looking deeply into the same self.

In social cognitive theory, perceived self-efficacy results from diverse sources of information conveyed vicariously and through social evaluation, as well as through direct experience

What is the meaning of Initiation? It is the Path to the realisation of your Self as the sole, the supreme, the absolute of all Truth, Beauty, Purity, Perfection!

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

I tell you that victory consists in conquering self. That is the greatest enemy.

We might neglect our future selves because of some failure of belief or imagination.

It is always legitimate to wish to rise above one's self, never above others.

My self-imposed mandate is to be the voice for the voiceless.

An 'I' without a body is a possibility. But a body without an 'I' is utterly impossible.

Writing or making anything-a poem, a bird feeder, a chocolate cake-has self-respect in it. You're working. You're trying. You're not lying down on the ground, having given up.

Being in your element is not only about aptitude, it's about passion: it is about loving what you do...tapping into your natural energy and your most authentic self.

Found myself screaming in a hotel room. I didn't want to self-destruct.

How easy it is to be "deep": all you have to do is let yourself sink into your own flaws.

What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms.

Fear is only in duality. Fear is Mind. When you are your Self, there is no fear.

The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.

Discard every self-seeking motive as soon as it is seen, and you need not search for truth; truth will find you.

Above all things, reverence yourself.

It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress.

A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

We read books to find out who we are.

You cannot fix what you will not face.

There is a God and He is good, and his love, while free, has a self imposed cost: We must be good to one another.

I don't like myself, I'm crazy about myself.

Action eradicates fear. No matter what you fear,--- positive, self-affirming action can diminish or completely cancel that which you are fearful of.

Black people cannot and will not become integrated into American society on any terms but those of self-determination and autonomy.

Natural play strengthens children's self-confidence and arouses their senses-their awareness of the world and all that moves in it, seen and unseen.

Build the raft of meditation and self-discipline, to carry you across the river. There will be no ocean, and no rising tides to stop you; this is how comfortable your path shall be.

I am neither male nor female, nor am I sexless. I am the Peaceful One, whose form is self-effulgent, powerful radiance.

The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self.

Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but I think they're quite different from people who must write.

Give me the old familiar world, post-office and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when it is beaten.

Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable.