Self Quotes · Page 132

“Self- reliance is the greatest of all virtues my friend.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.

— Ralph Marston

The mystical journey drives us into ourselves, to a sacred flame at our center.

— Marianne Williamson

This has to be the most self-centered thing I've ever said, but no, I think you just wanted to vex me.

— Julia Quinn

I have devoted my life to the principle of service before self.

— John E. James

The man whom nature's self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.

— Edmund Spenser

“The yearning self is an empty vessel – fill it with knowledge and you may find what you seek!!”

— Iyathurai Aingaratheepan

If you ignore loving yourself you are doing a big diservice to the world

— Mprez

If you want to understand yourself, Then do not examine yourself. Just love yourself more sincerely, More soulfully And more self-givingly.

— Sri Chinmoy

Life could be vastly improved if we could count our blessings as self-actualizing people can and do, and if we could retain…

— Abraham Maslow

From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to…

— Michel Foucault

The problem with writing a monthly book is that you're going through your work like a man running for a bus, red-faced…

— J. Michael Straczynski

Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no time for either

— Garrison Keillor

The truth is that creative activity is one that involves the entire self - our emotions, our levels of energy, our characters,…

— Robert Greene

“It is not in Our [the Self's] control to acquire or to renounce. They are both [activities] of the non-Self and are…

— Dada Bhagwan

Lovers are not snails; they don't have to protrude from their shells and meet each other halfway. Meet me within your own…

— Jerzy Kosinski

In writing you work toward a result you won't see for years, and can't be sure you'll ever see. It takes stamina…

— Tobias Wolff

My new 9mm didn’t fit my hand as well as my old one, but it was rapidly becoming a familiar weight. At…

— Karen Chance

You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's success is gauged by his…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Meditation is to attain to a no-mindness, to a state of no-thought. In that opening of no-thought, in that kind of space,…

— Rajneesh

There is provided an escape from the narrowness and poverty of the individual life, and the possibility of a life which is…

— John Caird

I was deluding myself that the song was almost not important, but I think the real thing that was happening was almost…

— John Fogerty

I grieve and dare not show my discontent, I love and yet am forced to seem to hate, I do, yet dare…

— Elizabeth I

One really ought to be afraid of self-torture. But it tempted me. It begged. The dark place that my mind was fast…

— Marya Hornbacher

Never hesitate to live your life as your self and in the way you want to live.

— Anonymous

Sometimes I forget putting myself First... Isn't Selfish but Necessary...

— Kushandwizdom

I never remember being self-conscious about my body. That just comes from being in a locker room for so long.

— Joe Thornton

No, actors go out with actresses as a form of self-flagellation.

— John Cusack

I actually went to film school, but I didnt like it. Im basically self-taught.

— Judah Friedlander

“We wonder at vistas outside .. Yet we pass by ourselves.”

— Neena Verma

The dominant type of humor in the '60s was essentially defensive and self-deprecating, using humor as a shield.

— P. J. O'Rourke

We aren't anything in particular. There is no self. There are only ideas and states of mind.

— Frederick Lenz

You don’t need to marry a man with millions. You only need to be your exquisite self.

— Anna Godbersen

Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.

— Vernon Howard

resisting life, he finds that the Self is more than his own being; it includes the whole universe.

— Monica Furlong

Is there anything more attractive than a woman in high heels and low self esteem?

— Dov Davidoff

Thinking to myself-self, and I SAY! a thing of beauty is a joy forever, Let your joy be my joy!!!

— Young Dovey

“Self-serving mentality hinders from fulfilling kingdom mandate”

— Sunday Adelaja

Let your former selves teach you, but never limit or define you

— Yasmin Mogahed

If you wish to shine like day, burn up the night of self-existence. Dissolve in the Being who is everything.

— Rumi