The Self Quotes

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

Who we are cannot be separated from where we're from.

for once, you believed in yourself. you believed you were beautiful and so did the rest of the world.

Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from the outer world.

Leave behind the passive dreaming of a rose-tinted future. The energy of happiness exists in living today with roots sunk firmly in reality's soil.

People who do not value you are worthless and those who do are priceless.

If you own this story you get to write the ending.

The thrust of continuous action is the firewood which fuels motivation.

Lack of forgiveness of others breeds lack of self-forgiveness.

Genetics do play a role in how you consciously or subconsciously manifest your true self.

Your self-confidence increases when you know you are living your life according to your highest values.

Your failures and misfortunes don't threaten other people. . .It's your assets and your successes that are problems for people who derive their self-esteem from being superior.

Our sense of self-worth is the single most important determinant of the health, abundance, and joy we allow into our lives.

I'm not a great believer in self-help.

Dumbing down takes many forms: art that is good for you, museums that flatter you, universities that increase your self-esteem. Culture, after all, is really about you.

Fear is being used by the political class as an excuse to accumulate more power and self-importance - and collect a lot more taxes to support their agenda.

The picture you have of yourself, your self-esteem, will have a profound effect on the way you see the world and the way your world sees you.

Rudeness luxuriates in the absence of self-respect.

Comparing yourself to others is an act of violence against your authentic self.

Being on stage is about self esteem and self confidence.

If only corporal punishment cured low self-esteem.

You can't hate yourself happy, You can't criticize yourself thin, You can't shame yourself wealthy. Real change begins with self-love and self care.

The greatest step toward accomplishment is self-confidence .

Nothing is loathsomer than the self-loathing of a self one loathes.

Your true self is beyond either relying on others or avoiding them in order to know who you are.

I know who I am. I have a very strong sense of self.

I'm a Self-made Woman in Every Sense of the Word

We may listen to our inner self-and still not know which ocean we hear roaring.

Our primordial purpose is to respond to the impulsion from within to solve the mystery of our individual existence, to find and be the authentic Self that is, has been and ever shall be.

You don't have freedom unless you have the freedom to do stupid self-destructive things.

You can't build joy on a feeling of self-loathing.

Lend, by your imperfections, self-esteem to others, and you will be invited everywhere.

I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred.

Self-worth and financial worth become indistinguishable.

A little bit of irreverence is necessary to have any self-esteem at all. Not irreverence for people, but rather, for what other people think.

Self-confidence should be applied to wholesome actions, Overcoming of delusions and my ability to overcome them. Thinking, 'I alone shall do it' Is the self-confidence of action.

most of us have to be self-righteous before we can be righteous.

I think this is what college is all about: self-examination and dealing with those questions of "Who am I?"

Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.

Self-respect and a clear conscience are powerful components of integrity and are the basis for enriching your relationships with others.

In many ways I wish I wasn't an actor dragging around the baggage from being one so that I could just devote my energies to encouraging people to find their true selves.

Monks transgress the Laws of the Buddha, stir up the common people, store wealth and weapons, and spread rumors; under the guise of religion, they are nothing more than self-serving agitators.

To me photography can be simultaneously a record and a mirror or window of self-expression.

The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites.

True individuality is the repose arising from the relation of a self to all it has to do with. Bad individuality has in it a separation between outward action and a flat repose inwardly.

The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.

A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.

Hush little baby, Dont you cry, Dont cut your arms, Dont say goodbye. Put down that razor, Put down that light, It maybe hard but, You'll win this fight.

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the absence of self.

As the social self can only be developed by contact with society, so the spiritual self can only be developed by contact with the spiritual world.