The Self Quotes

The man who masters his own soul will forever be called conqueror of conquerors.

Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I'm not what I'd like to be.

Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out.

An axe at home saves hiring a carpenter.

I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.

Rogers sees daylight. Campbell makes daylight.

Make good use of bad rubbish.

Walk tall, or baby don't walk at all.

Much of the work of midlife is to tell the difference between those who are dealing with their issues through you and those who are really dealing with you.

I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once and cannot add up the sum.

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.

Self-determination could mean independence, confederacy, federal and autonomy.

Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.

National politics and elections are dominated by emotions, by lack of self-confidence, by fear of the other, by insecurity, by infection of the body politic by the virus of victimhood.

Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology.

At the core of your heart, you are perfect and pure. No one and nothing can alter that.

I am a spiritual person living in a human body, not a human body with a spirit.

All top salespeople have a highly evolved will all top leaders have a highly evolved will you see it's the will that gives us the ability to focus

If you're capable of despising your own behavior, you might just love yourself.

Make yourself your role model, because people who do not have qualities depend on the qualities of others to shape their own qualities.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

It's hard loving those who don't much like themselves: "If you're so great, why would you think I'm so great.

Within you, you will find everything you need to be complete.

I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins.

We become what we want to be by consistently being what we want to become each day.

We must become what we wish to teach.

The best big idea is only going to be as good as its implementation.

All Disruption starts with introspection.

Be sure that whatever you are is you.

If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.

I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look 'intelligent' anymore.

Life's managed, not cured.

Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.

There is no key to open the heart of another - except curiosity.

My mother always says people should be able to take care of themselves, even if they're rich and important.

...and that's when I get to wondering, what would happen if I told her she something good, ever day?

When you know that everything matters—that every move counts as much as any other—you will begin living a life of permanent purpose.

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, But in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

You are the only you God made... God made you and broke the mold.

Self-observation is the first step of inner unfolding.

To 'know Thyself' is considered quite an accomplishment.

Racing is about discipline and intelligence, not about who has the heavier foot. The one who drives smart will always win in the end.

To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.

Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.

We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.

Self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think... The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind.