Self Quotes · Page 137

What gives life its value if not its constant cry for self-transcendence?

— Sri Chinmoy

Self-discipline is the No. 1 delineating factor between the rich, the middle class and the poor.

— Robert Kiyosaki

“A person is not trapped by life’s boxes. Step out of each box and discover the true gift of the self.”

— Melissa Regas

“Where there is such self-love there is very little room for anything else, even hate.”

— Laura L. Sullivan

I think it's very easy to get self-conscious and stuck when you're doing everything on your own.

— Tove Styrke

Make up your mind that you will become the seeker of your own higher self.

— Ma Jaya

The tryptamine molecule has this unique property of releasing the structured self into the over-self.

— Terence McKenna

It is a human defect--to try to know one's self by the self of another.

— Robert Penn Warren

“Filled with self-pity and calling himself “a man who had given up his life for his country and for Africa,” he”

— Adam Hochschild

Let us subdue the ravages of the baser-self, and aspire to the higher calling of exalting joy through compassion, for that is…

— Anonymous

Life works on strange laws of nature (Karma). One never knows when a friend turns enemy & vice-versa. Rely on your Self; self-reliance

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

In an age of constant live connections, the central question of self-examination is drifting from ‘Who are you?’ towards ‘What are you…

— Tom Chatfield

It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.

— Tariq Ramadan

When they teach [doctors] how to suture, they also teach them how to stitch their self-worth to being all-powerful.

— Brené Brown

To have the detached eye of the occultist, to look outward, to not be so self-reflective and to learn to step through…

— Frederick Lenz

Forgiveness is not something you do for someone else, but to free YOURSELF from the continuation of pain and anger. It is…

— Kenneth Cloke

I will not leave you, I cannot leave you, for you are My creation and My product, My daughter and My son,…

— Neale Donald Walsch

Above all we must not wish to cling to our suffering. Suffering surely deepens us and enhances our person, but we must…

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

It is only through the psyche that we can establish that God acts upon us, but we are unable to distinguish whether…

— Carl Jung

Our self (Soul), as a form of God's joy, is deathless. For his joy is amritham, eternal bliss. We know that the…

— Rabindranath Tagore

I have experienced great sadness cause I didn't know. I wondered why does one day my mind decides to go against me…

— Edward Shaylitsa

I used to think I was ugly. I thought I looked like a camel. A person who doesn't love themselves, they will…

— Mary J. Blige

I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing…

— Terry Gross

The heart-throb for the welfare of humanity therefore passes into the ravings of an insane self-conceit, into the fury of consciousness to…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Be careful when building walls to protect yourself. Those same walls may cage you in.

— Anonymous

I find sometimes it's easy to be myself, sometimes I find it's better to be somebody else.

— Dave Matthews

I think it's important to have your own individual style and sense of self. It's kind of what I do.

— Kat Graham

Whatever else you do, listen to your Deepest Self. Love Her and be true to Her, speak Her truth, always.

— Sue Monk Kidd

We hit a stride where all self-consciousness disappeared.

— Joshua Leonard

Did I help you toward a fate you didn't want, Alaska, or did I just assist in your willful self-destruction?

— John Green

Self-judgment always happens when you believe somebody else's thoughts about you more than your own.

— Change Your Conversation

When we feel the weight of the world upon our souls, that is when we find our true self.

— Wanda Samples

“I remember the moment I realized I was free, looking in a mirror and saying, “I choose my motherfucking self.”

— Gabrielle Union

Today's reports confirm that, unfortunately, post-crisis America is still not back to its good economic self.

— Mohamed El-Erian

Do not worry if others do not understand you, worry only if you can not understand yourself.

— Anonymous

Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.

— Wendell Pierce

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

— Abraham Maslow

You don't want to go around willy-nilly suing news organizations. That's probably self-defeating.

— Bill Keller

High self-esteem comes from feeling like you have control over events not that events have control over you.

— Tony Robbins