Self Quotes · Page 125

A book is solitude, privacy; it is a way of holding the self apart from the crush of the outer world.

— Sven Birkerts

“Though I think and speak of greater becoming, I, too, am an infinite work in progress.”

— T.F. Hodge

God demands nothing less than self - surrender as the price for the only real freedom that is worth having.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us.

— C. S. Lewis

True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false modesty.

— C. S. Lewis

Rule of thumb: if you think something is clever and sophisticated beware-it is probably self-indulgence.

— Donald A. Norman

“Ownership is yet another of the endless forms of arrogance engaged in by the lower self.”

— Bryant McGill

It requires self-esteem to receive-not self-love but just a pleasant acquaintance and liking for oneself.

— John Steinbeck

The effort to lift one's self into perfect enlightenment is a profound thing. It has nothing to do with individual will. It's…

— Frederick Lenz

Life is invisible. The illusion is that what we perceive is in some way not a reflection of self. Life reflects the…

— Frederick Lenz

Thinking that your story is so interesting that other people will want to listen to it or read it or pay to…

— Anthony Bourdain

There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. 'Bad pride' is the deadly…

— John C. Maxwell

Religion is a self-conferred intellectual decision; it's not something you get at birth and is unchangeable. You're collusive with the religion when…

— George Carlin

Transition is the natural process of disorientation and reorientation that marks the turning points in the path of growth...transitions are key times…

— William Bridges

I thought I'd take style to its limit... My philosophy is a belief in magic, good luck , self-confidence, and pride.

— Grace Jones

One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle…

— Agatha Christie

By directing our sentiments, passions, and reason toward the common human plight, imagination grants us the advantages of a moralexistence. What we…

— Louise J. Kaplan

Loneliness is the inability to share your story, your Unique Self story. For most people, the move beyond loneliness requires us to…

— Marc Gafni

Self-Love or putting yourself first is not being self-centered or a narcassist, its about making a xommitment to yourself to create what…

— Yanni

I see the ups and downs. I see the mistakes I've made. I see a funny person. I see a serious person.…

— Tracy Morgan

We ought not to believe those who today, adopting a philosophical air and with a tone of superiority, prophesy the decline of…

— David Hilbert

The Self says ‘I AM’–as in the very grand sayings of Christ, especially in the Gospel of John, in which he says…

— Ravi Ravindra

For the writer, the serial killer is, abstractly, an analogue of the imagination's caprices and amorality; the sense that, no matter the…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I fell in love with the classical crossover genre when I was on AGT. I found out that I could use the…

— Barbara Padilla

Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

— Anonymous

“The sages may have been self-serving, like the rest of us, but that doesn't mean they weren't sages.”

— Robert Wright

When a man takes an oath... he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water.

— Robert Bolt

I'm a self-made man since I left college at the age of 18.

— Raj Kundra

“One with pure applied awareness does not have the inner intent of kashay whatsoever!”

— Dada Bhagwan

“As a human being, you are an autonomous (from the Greek, “self-ruling”) being. And”

— Fred Kofman

Your self-image should not come from the job you do but from how well you do your job.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The ego is the false self-born out of fear and defensiveness.

— John O'Donohue

The stretch of the limousine usually is inversely proportional to the self esteem of the person riding in it.

— Denis Waitley

Without self belief nothing can be accomplished. With it, nothing is impossible.

— Felix Dennis

“Love yourself enough to open your eyes, and open your eyes enough to love yourself.”

— Jay Woodman

Be in your real self today, get to know your true being. Happiness is inside this, gently singing.

— Ritu Ghatourey

“Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves for we shall never cease to be amused. -Proverb”

— Louisa Thomsen Brits

I think as far as self-promotion goes, I probably have a lot to learn.

— Chris Isaak

To live simple is what you better live in,than to keepin' self difficulty

— Silniña Silma

Our perceiving self is nowhere to be found in the world-picture, because it itself is the world-picture.

— Erwin Schrodinger