The Self Quotes

Every parent's deepest wish is that their children are self sufficient, happy, and able to live a full life.

Responsible people work, earn, save, invest, make things better for self & family. Lefties call that "greed."

Self conquest is the greatest of victories.

You have to know that your real home is within.

I am not a human being, i am a human becoming.

You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity. There is a better way to live.

God's grace consists in the fact that He shines in the heart of every one as the Self; that power of grace does not exclude any one, whether good or otherwise.

The Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things are seen.

We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not.

My father taught me that only through self-discipline can you achieve freedom. Pour water in a cup and you can drink; without the cup, the water would splash all over. The cup is discipline.

Friends of my youth, a last adieu! haply some day we meet again; Yet ne'er the self-same men shall meet; the years shall make us other men.

Will we fulfill God's purpose, or will we shrink back and live a comfortable, self-centered life?

Remember God so much that you are forgotten.

Every man is the painter and the sculptor of his own life.

We ought not to extract pernicious honey from poison blossoms of misrepresentation and mendacious half-truth, to pamper the course appetite of bigotry and self-love.

I'm definitely happy by my self, you know what I mean. The money is better. But you know, I'd just rather be alone.

The worse a person is the less he feels it.

In the World of Reality there is no self, There is no other-than-self.

We [americans] self-regulate ourselves, we self-censor ourselves a lot in this country instead of having someone else censor us so we can blame them. That's not good, either.

You tend to understand yourself a little better after each role you play. There’s somewhat of a self-discovery.

We've seen a lot of people self-destruct because of a small taste of success.

Resolutions aren't self-executing. Somebody has to provide the soldiers, take the risks, risk their blood and their treasure to go out and implement such a resolution.

Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.

Be true to thine own self.

You combine hard work, creativity, and self-determination, and things start to happen.

Human beings are not on earth to be citizens, or taxpayers, or socially engineered pawns of other human beings; rather they are here in order to grow, to transform, to become their authentic selves.

My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.

We need to elect leaders who understand that leadership is about loving and serving people, not about self-advancement.

Few people can fail to generate a self-healing process, when they become genuinely involved in healing others.

Self-conquest is really self-surrender. Yet before we can surrender ourselves we must become ourselves. For no one can give up what he does not possess.

Ego trips by coteries of self-exalting people are treated in the media as idealism, rather than the petty tyranny it is.

A sick body with a good heart is more beneficial to future lives than a fit, healthy body that is used for self-cherishing.

I see knowledge of self. I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

The first chess book that I read was Dufresne's self-tutor, published with Lasker's Common Sense in Chess as an appendix.

In the hierarchy of colors, green represents the social middle class, self-satisfied, immovable, narrow.

He who is able to accept everything gladly from the Lord - including darkness, dryness, flatness - and completely disregard self is he who lives for Him.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it in return from them.

To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.

True self-discovery begins where your comfort zone ends.

Until you have given up yourself to Him, you will not have a real self.

The church is her true self only when she exists for humanity.

If, because of anxiety and self-doubt, you procrastinate and only think about working, you'll feel more exhausted than if you'd created for hours.

My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.

When you are free from self-doubt, you fail better. You accept criticism and listen.

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

It is evident that man never attains to a true self-knowledge until he has previously contemplated the face of God, and come down after such contemplation to look into himself.

It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.

The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. The more weapons you have, the less secure people will be. The more subsidies you have, the less self reliant people will be.

When you start to build self-worth and redeem your magnificence, the fears go away... you void your fears via your realization of your own self-worth.