The Self Quotes

Life is not just eating, drinking, television and cinema...The human mind must be creative, must be self-generating ; it cannot depend on just gadgets to amuse itself.

There is nothing more foolish or self-defeating than for a Christian to say that he is not interested in doctrines.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.

Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all.

You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.

Measure yourself by your best moments, not by your worst. We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

I had the right to remain silent... but I didn't have the ability.

Here is the paradox of Christian living. We must give up control of self to gain self control.

Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope.

Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

To believe that you depend on things and people for happiness is due to ignorance of your true nature; to know that you need nothing to be happy, except Self-knowledge, is wisdom.

[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility . . .

Make a commitment to your self that today, success is your only options! No matter the obstacles, no matter the sacrifice! you have decided you won't be denied, you won't be defeated!

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves.

Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

Self defense is a primary law of nature, which no subsequent law of society can abolish; the immediate gift of the Creator, obliges everyone to resist the first approaches of tyranny.

If you keep hiding your true self, your life becomes like slow death. Once you become free from the lies and the hiding of yourself, then life becomes vibrant again.

If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self.

All other things have a portion of everything, but Mind is infinite and self-ruled, and is mixed with nothing but is all alone by itself.

There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore.

People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.

Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

Do not look for happiness outside yourself. The awakened seek happiness inside.

Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.

Everyone needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life.

Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself.

To be a socialist means to let the ego serve the neighbour, to sacrifice the self for the whole. In its deepest sense socialism equals service. The individual refrains and the commonwealth demands.

Nothing is difficult, if you seek it through your Lord; nothing is easy, if you seek it through your self.

Not all of us are called to die a martyr’s death, but all of us are called to have the same spirit of self-sacrifice and love to the very end as these martyrs had.

Dive into your heart center. Sit in the silence. Desire self-realization with all your heart, with all your mind, and all your soul. Everything will take care of itself.

The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

I've experienced several different healing methodologies over the years - counseling, self-help seminars, and I've read a lot - but none of them will work unless you really want to heal.

The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

All the harm, fear, and suffering in the world are caused by attachment to the self: Why should I hold on to this great demon?

Independence is happiness.

Why should I care what other people think of me? I am who I am. And who I wanna be.

In order to realize our true self we must be willing to live without being dependent upon the opinion of others.

The humility to prepare and the self-confidence to bring it off.

The deeper I go into myself, the stronger I become, because I realize that my real self is much bigger than any fear.

A good shot must necessarily be a good man since the essence of good marksmanship is self-control and self-control is the essential quality of a good man.

Your mind-set is your primary weapon

I found the Divine within my Heart.

You can never protect yourself 100%. What you do is protect your self as much as possible and mitigate risk to an acceptable degree. You can never remove all risk.

A successful person realizes his personal responsibility for self-motivation. He starts with himself because he possesses the key to his own ignition switch.

You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.