The Self Quotes

In ourselves our safety must be sought. By our own right hand it must be wrought.

In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.

The less said the better.

For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head.

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.

Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

The moment you make the internal changes necessary to obtain your goal, the outside world changes instantly.

Your energy is a valuable resource, distribute it wisely.

No obstacle is so big that one person with determination can't make a difference.

To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation?

There is no external solution to the problem of insecurity.

Beautify your inner dialogue. Beautify your inner world with love light and compassion. Life will be beautiful.

Make a pledge to yourself right now, to declare that you are worth your time and energy.

He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.

What would you do if you weren't afraid?

You will be your best self when you take time to understand what you really need, feel and want.

Wisest is she who knows she does not know.

If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.

Who we are and how we engage with the world are much stronger predictors of how our children will do than what we know about parenting.

A real secret is something which only one person knows.

Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end.

We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are.

It’s only when we can work with something that brings out our strengths that we’re of any real use.

Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.

Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves.

The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth.

Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect

Kitsch is the most pernicious of all prisons. The bars are covered with the gold of simplistic, unreal feelings, so that you take them for the pillars of a palace.

You don't know how to talk to people you don't like. Don't love, really. You can't live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.

As long as you can find yourself, you’ll never starve.

Your dreaming self seeks to tell you something your waking ears will not hear

When one is pretending the entire body revolts.

Learn to depend upon yourself by doing things in accordance with your own way of thinking.

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

Everything that happens to you is self-created.

To get to this place of a warrior’s courage, we must give up the stories that have ruled our lives and shatter the self-image we created to affirm our story.

We shape our self to fit this world and by the world are shaped again

I look back on my liberal political beliefs with a sort of wonder - as another exercise in self-involvement - rewarding myself for some superiority I could not logically describe.

Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self.

The two biggest self-deceptions of all are that life has a 'meaning'and each of us is unique.

If you look at the people in Hollywood who are heavy partiers, they're selfish, self-centered and egotistical.

I've had confidence in myself all along. It was just a matter of getting the pieces back in place.

ONE MUST BE COMPASSIONATE TO ONE'S SELF BEFORE EXTERNAL COMPASSION.

It's no accident that most of the great black spokespersons and leaders understood the centrality of self-affirmation, self-respect and self-love.

If a man keeps cherishing his old knowledge so as continually to be acquiring new, he may be a teacher of others.