The Self Quotes

The self-righteous rule out the possibility that they are what has gone wrong.

We have nothing to lose by trusting the infinite power of the Self, except the bondage of our own ignorance.

It is not recognized in the full amplitude of the word that all freedom is essentially self-liberation - that I can have only so much freedom as I procure for myself by my owness.

Every day you must try to make your own self-image grow; this you can do.

I think the more we know the better we are. I mean not just facts. The more we know about each other, the closer we are to learn something about our selves.

I'm self-loathing, introverted, and neurotic.

I only direct in self-defense.

Every problem offers an opportunity for a solution. if you are in the right frame of mind to find it.

Increasingly, people perceive no difference between the narcissistic self-serving reporters asking questions, and the narcissistic self-serving politicians who evade them.

I don't necessarily self-identify as a writer, 'cause it implies a certain level of intelligence.

In my youth I studied for ostentation; later, a little to gain wisdom; now, for recreation; never for gain.

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.

I'd probably say to my younger self, get yourself a whole collection of lawyers. Which is what I have now. I don't have any friends; I just have lawyers.

Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?

Work that is pure toil, done solely for the sake of the money it earns, is also sheer drudgery because it is stultifying rather than self improving.

how ridiculous we often are in our negations, our strutting self importance, our penchant for making labels and sticking them on people. As though labelling a person disposed of him!

If you're a Christian you're just a shadow of your future self.

Taking possession of your positive self will put you on the success beam that you may ride triumphantly to whatever heights of achievement you desire.

It is a fact that the majority of a man's griefs comes about through lack of self-control.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one's self a fool.

I was in a self-induced depression. Welcome to me Real World.

Meekness, the subtraction of self, reduces the multiplication of words.

Every act is an act of self definition.

Whatever you wish to experience in your own lifetime, cause another to experience in theirs. What you bring to another, you bring to the Self, for there is no other in ultimate reality.

My father's example taught me self-reliance, to make my own luck, and to work to make things happen.

Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data tricked up and rearranged to invent a fictive self.

Not for the first time in my life, and certainly not for the last, a self-righteous gloom had edged out all semblance of logic.

Effective leaders are willing to use power and authority, but they're doing it in the service of the collective good, as opposed to self-aggrandizement.

The power of the Plus Factor is potential but it is not self-activating. It is latent in human beings and will remain latent until it is activated.

Good teachers join self and subject and students in the fabric of life.

Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's plight. The Japanese have never accepted that change is in their interest - and not merely a response to U.S. criticism.

I was the goldfish that leapt out of the bowl.

The Martyr finds her way to self-knowledge through pain, suffering, and surrender.

Lean into the sharp points and fully experience them. The essence of bravery is being without self-deception. Wisdom is inherent in (understanding) emotions.

The essence of bravery is being without self-deception.

At times we can be self-absorbed. Lord, help us to open our hearts to others and to serve those who are most vulnerable.

Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design.

Beware of any belief that makes you self-indulgent; it came from the pit, no matter how beautiful it sounds.

clothes, after all, are a form of self-expression.

All that one gives to others one gives to one's self. If this truth is understood, who will not give to others?

The world is not outside you.

That is the ego which rises and sinks periodically. But you exist always. That which lies beyond the ego is consciousness - the Self.

The place where even the slightest trace of the 'I' does not exist, alone is Self.

Because truth is exceedingly subtle and serene, the bliss of the Self can manifest only in a mind rendered subtle and steady by assiduous meditation.

Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.

The Self itself is the world; the Self itself is 'I'; the Self itself is God; all is Siva, the Self.

There is always room for improvement.

Know something about something. Don’t just present your wonderful self to the world. Constantly amass knowledge and offer it around.

Silence is one of the deepest Disciplines of the Spirit, simply because it puts the stopper on all self-justificat ion

Writing is communication, not self-expression. Nobody in this world wants to read your diary except your mother.