The Self Quotes

The mastery of the true self, and the refusal to permit others to dominate us, is the ultimate in living and self-expression in athletics.

The development of self-confidence starts with the elimination of this demon called fear.

While you had the chance to live, did you become your true self?

It's so easy to get caught up in your own self-doubt when you're writing. It can be so easy to tell yourself, "Who am I kidding?"

Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue.

Hypocrisy can plunge the mind of a man into a dark abyss, when he believes his own self-flattery instead of God's verdict.

As a writer, you have to believe you're one of the best writers in the world. To sit down every day at the typewriter filled with self-doubt is not a good idea.

Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

There are ministers who never speak of repentance or self-denial. Naturally they are popular, but they are false prophets.

Cruel words erode the self-esteem like the ocean eats away the shore.

Compassion, tolerance, forgiveness and a sense of self-discipline are qualities that help us lead our daily lives with a calm mind

In the horrifying calculus of self-deception, the greater the pain we inflict on others, the greater the need to justify it to maintain our feelings of decency and self-worth.

Thank you for this lovely blunt object that I will forevermore use as a weapon against self-doubt.

No one is free who does not lord over himself.

Till swollen with cunning, of a self-conceit, His waxen wings did mount above his reach, And, melting, Heavens conspir'd his overthrow.

It's not records I chase, it's self-improvement. And that cannot be done by taking it easy.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self.

To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.

You can knock me down, step on my face, slander my name all over the place. Do anything that you want to do, but uh-oh, honey, lay off of my shoes.

Success is predictable.

Your subconscious mind makes all your words and actions fit a pattern consistent with your self-concept and your innermost beliefs about yourself.

Happiness and self-confidence come naturally when you feel yourself moving and progressing toward becoming the very best person you can possibly be.

Observe all men, thyself most.

Most of us did not learn when we were young that our capacity to be self-loving would be shaped by the work we do and whether that work enhances our well-being.

Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.

I keep my self updated by reading different books and encyclopedias.

If we would only see that all limitations are self imposed and chosen out of fear, we would leap at once.

"We see the world as 'we' are, not as 'it' is; because it is the "I" behind the 'eye' that does the seeing."

For the Christian, humility is absolutely indispensable. Without it there can be no self-knowledge, no repentance, no faith and no salvation.

Hitler had a plausible case to argue when he claimed that the Anschluss was only the application of the Wilsonian principle of self-determination.

A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.'

Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides.

Feel the wounded heart that's underneath the addiction, self-loathing, or anger.

Let your former selves teach you, but never limit or define you

All service should be regarded as an offering to God, and every opportunity to serve should be welcomed as a gift from God. When service is done in this spirit, it will lead to self- realization.

Self-conscious, uncertain, I'm showered by the dust. But the spirit enters into me and I submit to trust.

The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.

The cloven-foot of self-interest was now and then to be seen aneath the robe of public principle.

The angel within me thrives on the devil within me.

I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain, And bear the marks upon a blushing face, OF needless shame, and self-impos'd disgrace.

Self-interest is the most ingenious and persuasive of all the agents that deceive our consciences, while by means of it our unhappy and stubborn prejudices operate in their greatest force.

Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.

What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

If you don't have some self doubts and fears when you pursue a dream, then you haven't dreamed big enough.

I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.

Any attempts at autobiography before the age of eighty seem pretty self-involved to me. There are a lot of smart middle aged people but not many wise ones.

You cannot solve a problem with the mind that created it. First you must change the mind.

The picture is a self-sufficient work of art. It is not connected to anything outside.

Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear?

Understand this if nothing else: spiritual freedom and oneness with the Tao are not randomly bestowed gifts, but the rewards of conscious self-transformation and self-evolution.