The Self Quotes

Facts that challenge basic assumptions-and thereby threaten people's livelihood and self-esteem-are simply not absorbed. The mind does not digest them.

Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in.

When you see a worthy person, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self.

If rejection destroys your self-esteem, you're letting others hold you as an emotional hostage.

People should accept themselves for who they really are and be proud of that and take ownership of that first and learn that self love to really be happy.

Positive self-direction is the action plan that all winners in life use to turn imagination into reality, fantasy into fact, and dreams into actual goals.

A labor of love is exalted because it provides joy and self-expression to those who perform it.

Just as the acorn contains the mighty oak tree, the Self has everything it needs to fulfill its destiny. When the inner conditions are right, it naturally emerges.

I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.

It's self-centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity.

We are all more or less ill till we find -Self-enquiry our Oneness with everyone else.

Shut your eyes so the heart may become your eye, and with that vision look upon another world. If you can step away from your need for self-approval, all that you do, top to bottom, will be approved.

Self-realization is a process of permanent auto-creation, an elaboration of the new man at the expense of the old.

One's self-image is very important because if that's in good shape, then you can do anything, or practically anything.

Too many people think only of their own profit. But business opportunity seldom knocks on the door of self-centered people. No customer ever goes to a store merely to please the storekeeper.

Good governance needs self-discipline. Only discipline within can ensure discipline without.

Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.

Without excuse and self-consideration of health or limb or life, true soldiers fight, live to fight, love the thickest of the fight, and die in the midst of it.

The ego is not master in its own house.

Freedom, in childhood, may be the right to be totally self-centered. … But freedom in old age is the ability to be the best of the self I have developed during all those years.

Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature.

The real self of an artiste lies in art, so when an artiste performs, all the pain, trauma and tension get released through art, be it dancing, painting, singing, writing or even martial arts.

Economic disaster begins with a philosophy of doing less and wanting more.

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

In the light of calm and steady self-awareness, inner energies wake up and work miracles without any effort on your part.

So long as we are full of self we are shocked at the faults of others. Let us think often of our own sin, and we shall be lenient to the sins of others.

Immaturity is the inability to delay self gratification.

The proper course of action, when under attack, is usually to counterattack.

Your physical safety is up to you, as it really always has been.

Man is never alone. Acknowledged or unacknowledged, that which dreams through him is always there to support him from within.

Die to self: die to criticism, die to praise.

If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race.

Self-righteousness is the fruit of a low view of God's law and a lite view of your own sin.

One has to discover everything for oneself. And get over it all alone.

In every aspect of our lives, we are always asking ourselves, How am I of value? What is my worth? Yet I believe that worthiness is our birthright.

We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

Being a narcissist isn't easy when the question is not of loving your own image, but of recreating the self through deliberate acts of alienation.

Just be your self. Everybody else is already taken.

Four innate sentiments dispose people to a universal moral sense. These are sympathy, fairness, self-control and duty.

You are the Self, that perfect immutable Self. Nothing else exists. Nothing else ever existed. Nothing else will ever exist. There is only one Self and you are That. Rejoice!

Much of the self-righteous nonsense that abounds on so many subjects cannot stand up to three questions: (1) Compared to what? (2) At what cost? and (3) What are the hard facts?.

I love myself for I am a beloved child of the universe and the universe lovingly takes care of me now.

If I live for self, I can only live for one; if I live for others, I can live for 3,000,000,000.

Be an artist at whatever you do. Even if you are a street sweeper, be the Michelangelo of street sweepers.

A crucified Savior will never be content to have a self-pleasing, self-indulging, worldly-minded people.

No one could have called Mr. Standen quick-witted, but the possession of three sisters had considerably sharpened his instinct of self-preservation.

When we acknowledge the kingdom of the self, we will no longer accept slavery either for ourselves or for others, no matter how it is disguised.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

All that is required to realise the Self is to “Be Still.

My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself. I see life almost like one long University education that I never had - everyday I'm learning something new.