The Self Quotes

Our self-respect tracks our choices. Every time we act in harmony with our authentic self and our heart, we earn our respect. It is that simple. Every choice matters.

The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self esteem is excellence, mastery of your work.

At the level at which I work with people, their great talent is paired with great insecurity. Self-doubt is literally the twin of self-confidence. And I have to be there for both.

Welcome to a life of insecurity and paralyzing self-doubt.

Learn more about yourself! Make a self-esteem collage using pictures of other people you wish you were.

Self-Preservation is a full-time occupation.

Our pride and self-importance are European, while our development and actions are Asiatic.

Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

Power is sexy, not simply in its own right, but because it inspires self-confidence in its owner and a shiver of subservience on the part of those who approach it.

So the secret to good self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they're already met?

Fear and self-doubt have always been the greatest enemies of human potential.

Actors are inherently self-centered.

Individuals motivated by self-interest, self-indulgence, and a false sense of self-sufficiency pursue selfish ambition for the purpose of self-glorification.

Those who think themselves secure are more exposed to danger than any others. The armor-bearer of sin is self-confidence .

I am incredibly self-deprecating. It stems from self-doubt.

Nothing is static. Even the Mona Lisa is falling apart. Since fight club, I can wiggle half the teeth in my jaw. Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer. Maybe self-destruction is the answer.

Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb!

Self-awareness and self-esteem. Those aren't female issues, those are human issues.

The true self is not aware that it is a self. A bird, as it sings, sings itself. But not according to a picture. It has no idea of itself.

We need cooperation based on trust and self-confidence to create an open, compassionate, harmonious society.

You're human. You'll screw up. Denying that is crazy. Forgiving yourself has all the benefits of self-esteem without making you a narcissist that's out of touch with reality.

No one is born with self confidence. Self confidence is learned and earned with experience.

I'm the kind of person who wants to present my most honest, authentic self to the world, so I hide backstage and rehearse honest and authentic lines until the curtain opens.

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

When you are in the grips of low self-esteem, it’s painful, and it certainly doesn’t feel like pride. But I believe that this is the dark, quieter side of pride — thwarted pride.

I was always a self-conscious person.

I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt.

It was something she didn't want me to do because she thought the rejection would ruin my self-esteem. My father was, like, 'If she wants to try it, let her try it.'

Self-sufficiency is the greatest of all wealth .

All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way of making young men law-abiding and giving them a sense of purpose and self-worth.

The passions possess a certain injustice and self interest which makes it dangerous to follow them, and in reality we should distrust them even when they appear most trustworthy.

Most people with low self-esteem have earned it.

Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it.

But when you become a slave to a public persona and don’t feel comfortable without it, it becomes a shield and it shouldn’t come at the expense of your self-worth.

The ingenuity of self-deception is inexhaustible.

Self respect is impossible without liberty.

While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues.

Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.

Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.

Have the self-confidence to say no when it is necessary and the strength to stand alone. Give yourself the approval to love and respect everything that you are and will become.

Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they're fine fellows and don't need to explain themselves.

In the polling booth narrow self interest wins out over lofty principles.

To me, self-description is a calamity.

Oh, the self-importance of fading stars. Never mind, they will be black holes one day.

Self worth sets the standard that life meets.

Imagination builds the image of the self, and thought then functions within its shadows. From this self-concept grows the conflict between what is and what should be, the conflict in duality.

In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close knit communities, and our faith in God , too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption .

Growing up means leaving home and becoming a self supporting adult. I think this the hardest task any human being hast to face.

No repentance, obedience, self-denial, prayers, tears, reformation or ordinances, without the new creation, avail any thing to the salvation of thy soul.

I suffer the terrible disease of low self-esteem.