The Self Quotes
Beware of self-righteousness. The black devil of licentiousness destroys his hundreds, but the white devil of self-righteousness destroys his thousands.
Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.
The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
There’s only one basic principle of self-defense- you must apply the most effective weapon, as soon as possible, to the most vulnerable target.
The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.
No one is discontented at not being a king except a discrowned king ... unhappiness almost invariably indicates the existence of a road not taken, a talent undeveloped, a self not recognized.
Art has always had as its test in the long term the ability to speak to our innermost selves.
If you mess something up, remember who got you there. Don't be pointing fingers, even if finger-pointing is called for. Only one you got to blame is your own self.
To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.
You're a no good heartbreaker, you're a liar, and you're a cheat. I don't know why I let you do these things to me.
God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
No psychological health is possible unless this essential care of the person is fundamentally accepted, loved and respected by others and by himself.
I do not condemn any personal choices for intimate relationships. Love is love. I detest only the violence and trauma that any self-centered conduct can cause to others.
And the more you become aware of the unknown self - if you become aware of it - the more you realize that it is inseparably connected with everything else that is.
To injure another person through atonement is one of the most subtle devices of the neurotic, as when, for example, he indulges in self-accusations.
The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness.
Melting our attachment to self is the most powerful medication for bringing mental and emotional imbalances in check.
I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.
It is so often self who tries to live the Christian life. No wonder we need breaking. As long as self is in control, God can do little with us.
The skeptic, being a lover of his kind, desires to cure by speech, as best he can, the self-conceit and rashness of the dogmatists.
Self-discipline is doing what you know you should do when you don't want to do it.
To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.
When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything. The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will understand everything.
I am thankful for the adversities, which have crossed my pathway, for they taught me tolerance, sympathy, self-control, perseverance and some other virtues I might never have known.
Without a vision people and the church become self-centered. People start finding fault with one another and the church self-destructs.
One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage.
Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.
We're always too skinny, or too fat. Too tall, or too short. We're shaming each other, and we're shaming ourselves, and it sucks.
At first I thought I should be a second Beethoven; presently I found that to be another Schubert would be good; then gradually, satisfied with less and less, I resigned to be a Humperdinck.
The life of a Christian is nothing but a perpetual struggle against self; there is no flowering of the soul to the beauty of its perfection except at the price of pain.
