The Self Quotes

Be courteous to all, but personal with number of, and allow those couple be perfectly attempted ahead of you provide them with your self-assurance.

My commitment to the security and future of Israel is based upon basic morality as well as enlightened self-interest. Our role in supporting Israel honors our own heritage.

COURAGE is not a quality you teach. Courage is the by-product of self-discipline. It is an ATTITUDE.

I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.

Self-expression is a hard and selfish thing. It eats everything, even the self. At the end you find you haven't even got a self to express.

Knowing what you admire in others is a wonderful mirror into your deepest, as yet unborn, self.

Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.

My mother never wanted me to focus on my physical self. She always said that beauty is what you do.

If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.

It is no use lying to one's self.

I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.

Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

Refinement is the lifting of one's self upwards from the merely sensual; the effort of the soul to etherealize the common wants and uses of life.

When you have lost your inns, drown your empty selves, for you will have lost the last of England.

Part of diplomacy is to open different definitions of self-interest.

Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.

Less, less of self each day, And more, my God, of Thee!

I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient.

...and I confess that, like a child, I cry. Ah, self-pity; I think we are at our most honest and sincere when we feel sorry for ourselves.

Self-consciousness is the destroyer of erotic joy.

Enlightenment is the liberation of man from his self-caused state of minority... Supere aude! Dare to use your own understanding!is thus the motto of the Enlightenment.

We are all naturally self-righteous. It is the family disease of all the children of Adam.

I ain't done nothing wrong, but love thy self. And harm other niggaz that wanna stop my health.

As you meditate and become more spiritually attuned, you can better discern and recognize the sound of your higher self or the voice of God speaking to you through words, images, and sensations.

I would suggest that a feminism which does not also seek to alter the exploitation of poorer women is not feminism at all, but is simply a variant form of upper-class politics and self-privileging.

I don't regret the decisions or direction I've chosen, but I feel it's important to be self aware.

Thus meditating you will no longer strive to build yourself up in your prejudices, but, forgetting self, you will remember only that you are seeking the Truth.

A leader with integrity has one self, at home and at work, with family and with colleagues. He or she has a unifying set of values that guide choices of action regardless of the situation.

Houses are fundamental metaphors for self, world, permeability, transition, interiority, exteriority, multiplicity, and the power to move from one state of being to another.

Self-expression is my goal, I want to be real with my feelings. Singing and dancing and all the joy that goes with performing come from my heart. If I can't feel it, I won't do it.

Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud.

Being right is less important to us than the freedom to be wrong.

[Optimism] acts as a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Along with filters on computers and a lock on affections, remember that the only real control in life is self-control.

Thirties. Go to therapy. Clean up all of the sh-t. Clean up all of the toxins and the noise. Understand who you are. Educate yourself on the self.

It is in your self-interest to find a way to be very tender.

But inwardly we are as corrupt as the person who sits in an office and plans war-because, we want to be somebody in the family, in a group, in society, in the nation.

Freedom comes with self-knowledge, when the mind goes above and beyond the hindrances it has created for itself.

That man who lives for self alone, Lives for the meanest mortal known.

Writing is grunt work - you need to have self-motivation, perseverance, and faith... talent is the smallest part of it.

It is a great pleasure to transport one's-self into the spirit of the times; to see how a wise man has thought before us, and to what a glorious height we have at last carried it.

Leadership is only courage and wisdom, and a great carefulness of self.

Sometimes I hear people talk about discipline of self and I think, if you don't have passion, I might discipline myself for a week or two but only passion will hold me steady.

You can't make Christ funny. He's self-aware, he's too flexible within the situation. It's rigidity, it's when the ego takes over and the behavior becomes inappropriate that it becomes funny.

The spontaneous power of the child, his demand for self-expression, can not by any possibility be suppressed.

We are not inviting—we are guarded. Most of our energy is spent trying to hide our true selves, and control our worlds to have some sense of security.

Be patient. Like storms, the challenges will pass. Know too, that like the sun, your true soul self is constantly radiating.

We are working on creating self-describing, self-organizing, self-diagnosing and self-repairing networks.

Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastic, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter.

The famous balance of nature is the most extraordinary of all cybernetic systems. Left to itself, it is always self-regulated.