Self Quotes · Page 130

Education, introspection, self-love and excellence are the only ways to overcome the wrath of ignorance

— Romany Malco

It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around.

— Henry David Thoreau

The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

— F. H. Bradley

“The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being.”

— D.H. Lawrence

By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.

— Charles de Lint

Buddha indicated that the self, that part of you that incarnates from lifetime to lifetime was causal.

— Frederick Lenz

This loss of self contributes to illness in its myriad forms.

— Sidney Jourard

By 17, I was modeling and had bought myself a flat. I've always tried to be self-sufficient.

— Sadie Frost

Coaching is effective self-expression in the coach/client relationship so that you catalyze your clients' manifestation of their own desired outcomes.

— Patrick Williams

Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties…

— Sivananda

I didn't realize that I was in a self-made prison of human approval and human acceptance. Didn't even realize it. Most of…

— Tullian Tchividjian

Arrogant S.O.B.s run the world. A performer can never have too much self-confidence. The best in every field are likely to strike…

— John Eliot

My modus operandi after working for a decade as a self-funding freelancer, was to spend as little money as possible to get…

— Peter Menzel

This self-respect and sense of self-worth, the innermost armament of the soul, lies at the heart of humanness; to be deprived of…

— Laura Hillenbrand

Suffering is always hard to quantify - especially when the pain is caused by as cruel a disease as Alzheimer's. Most illnesses…

— Jeffrey Kluger

I lack self-confidence. I don't know whether I shall ever get it. Perhaps it is better to be unsure of your self,…

— Audrey Hepburn

Of all the judgments you make in life, none is as important as the one you make about yourself. The difference between…

— Nathaniel Branden

“Identification is why the reader reads and why the writer writes. We all want to identify with a character, so that we…

— Jerry Cleaver

Overcome any bitterness that may have come because you were not up to the magnitude of the pain entrusted to you. Like…

— Vilayat Inayat Khan

Feelings and stories of unworthiness and shame are perhaps the most binding element in the trance of fear. When we believe something…

— Tara Brach

if we continue with what is surely our greatest Western temptation, and think that in some way history owes us a solution,…

— Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

The only perfect love to be found on earth is not sexual love, which is riddled with hostility and insecurity, but the…

— Germaine Greer

At the bottom of religious persecution is the doctrine of self-defence; that is to say, the defence of the soul. If the…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The world was arrogant and self-satisfied, but behind all this confidence there was an uneasy sense of impending disaster. The old creeds,…

— John Buchan

The moment you teach someone be ready to be tested based off what you taught someone else

— Edward Shaylitsa

Sometimes wearing a mask is the best way to show our true selves.

— Lisa Mangum

I'm already self-motivated, so I don't really pay attention what people are saying.

— Terry Rozier

It is the business of a general to be serene and inscrutable, impartial and self-controlled.

— Sun Tzu

To err is human but to correct one self shows your character.

— Lalit Mohan Pande

There are no limitations to the self except those you believe in.

— Seth

I feel the greatest gift we can give to anybody is the gift of our honest self.

— Fred Rogers

There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others.

— George Matthew Adams

Its not that I dont like anyone else. . . Its just that I only associate my self with my people

— Lboogz

If we are in the same state of mind, we just self-reflect, things are dull and gray and kind of boring.

— Frederick Lenz

To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.

— Abraham Verghese

“War presents itself as necessary for self-protection, when in fact it is necessary for self-identification.”

— James P. Carse

The advice I would've given my younger self is, 'Be patient; just hold on.'

— Shaun Livingston

If guys practiced self-control, 'modesty' wouldn't be such a huge deal.

— Zach Hunter

Education is a self-organizing system, where learning is an emergent phenomenon.

— Sugata Mitra

Life is not about finding your true self, but creating who you wish to be.

— Anonymous