Self Quotes · Page 109

My default is self-destruction, and anything on top of that is a bloody lot of work.

— Gillian Anderson

How can we embrace rest and play if we've tied our self-worth to what we produce?

— Brené Brown

I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!

— Sam Palladio

That's the way man is, cher monsieur. He has two faces: he can't love without self-love.

— Albert Camus

"Life Diamond". . . Job. Family. Society. Sense of Self...

— Wayne Dyer

I am not a tentative person. Whatever I do, I give up my whole self to it.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

In the practice of exchanging self & other, paradoxes abound.

— Robert Thurman

Only self-hatred could lead him to ruin himself because his heart was "broken.

— Saul Bellow

To live and breathe with an exclusive focus on one's small self, disconnected from the whole, is the definition of egotism.

— Sharon Gannon

I'm very self-conscious having my picture taken, so I clown around. My driver's license photo looks like a blonde Elvis.

— Emily Procter

As the years progressed, my spiritual evolution seemed to increase in speed. I stepped outside this world, the selves reordered. The combination,…

— Frederick Lenz

For there is only one great adventure and that is inward toward the self, and for that, time nor space nor even…

— Henry Miller

I think people probably think I self-start, but I don't... I'm an actor, and I like to be of use to the…

— Parker Posey

A real pleasure is a pleasure that one enjoys by one's self, without a companion, and without a single argument.

— Sholom Aleichem

I've learned that loving your self requires a courage unlike any other. It requires us to believe in and stay loyal to…

— Mark Nepo

I don't have many friends. It's not because I'm a misanthrope. It's because I'm reserved. I'm self-contained. I get all my adventures…

— Ian Rankin

We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions…

— William Hazlitt

A very young painter is seldom alone. If he is an art student, he is in an art school with other students.…

— Pierre Alechinsky

In the quiet moments of your day, what do you think and do? When you are with your Self and no one…

— Neale Donald Walsch

We like to pretend that our generous impulses come naturally. But the reality is we often become our kindest, most ethical selves…

— Cheryl Strayed

I learned that I could control my life. You are the master of your fate. . . you are the captain of…

— Oprah Winfrey

What made Obama unique was that he was the ultimate charismatic politician -- the most unknown stranger ever to achieve the presidency…

— Charles Krauthammer

“How can one let go of dehadhyas (the belief that, 'I am the body') whilst residing in dehadhyas? For that, go to…

— Dada Bhagwan

“Perhaps defining a self begins with simply making the first choice, simply rising up and deciding what you desire, and then methodically,…

— Michele Rosenthal

Radical self-care is quantum, and radiates out into the atmosphere, like a little fresh air.

— Anne Lamott

Self-Development Quotes on: Courage, Honesty Any kind of lasting success is rooted in honesty.

— Russell Simmons

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

— William James

I was so self -conscious, every time football players went into a huddle, I thought they were talking about me.

— Jackie Mason

I never had any question that my parents loved me. I had a real sense of self confidence.

— Jeannette Walls

The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.

— Alan Watts

Self-knowledge is an anchor that makes unpredictability tolerable.

— Deepak Chopra

Being cool is being your own self not doing thing that someone else is telling you to do

— Wendy's

“Jealousy, and attempting to match others in life and stride, is self-abandonment.”

— Grace Sara

There is no such thing as an evil genius, as evil in it's self is stupidity.

— David Farland

Accepting yourself only as long as you look a certain way isn't self-love. It's self destruction.

— Laci Green

To me, it's that incredible sense of belonging and peace within your own self and heart that really is joy.

— Goldie Hawn

Our vices are attempts to combine self-medication and enjoyment.

— Mason Cooley

Those who determine not to put self to death will never see the will of God fulfilled in their lives.

— Sadhu Sundar Singh

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.

— W. H. Auden

I have met a thousand scamps; but I never met one who considered himself so. Self-knowledge isn't so common.

— Ouida