Self Quotes · Page 141

You can't compare an apple to an orange. It will cause a lot of self esteem issues.

— Craig Sheffer

I never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant.

— John Banville

So true is it that all sin is ultimately against the Lord; so bitter is the root of self.

— Alfred Edersheim

One should never do that to another which one regards as injurious to one's own self.

— Vyasa

People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others.

— Marisha Pessl

We do not like to praise, and seldom praise anyone without self-interest.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men with style are great because they have a sense of self.

— Lexa Doig

It is in self-imitation that a master first shows himself.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Unfortunately, in self-discovery, you get the culty types who want the father figure or mother figure to tell them everything to do.…

— Frederick Lenz

The feminist movement taught women to see themselves as victims of an oppressive patriarchy. ... Self-imposed victimhood is not a recipe for happiness.

— Phyllis Schlafly

What if the idea of Mr. Right is completely false? What if there is no Mr. Wrong? What if every relationship-no matter…

— Marie Forleo

When you do the right thing, but not to any particular person, we instinctively feel that we have earned some sort of…

— Julian Baggini

I, my own damn self, am not a Tea Party supporter. I disagree with them on social liberties, our overseas wars, Obama's…

— Penn Jillette

I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?

— Hermann Hesse

People do things with terrible motivations and those motivations are selfish and self-interested and financially driven.

— Michael Schur

In a sense who you are has always been a story that you told to yourself. Now your self is a story…

— Geoff Ryman

I think those moments in Patti's [Smith] bedroom really helped the film [Dream of Life] out, and those moments existed because of…

— Steven Sebring

The ideal of having a real job that you risk your soul in and make good or be damned, belongs to the…

— Paul Goodman

People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers,…

— Saint Augustine

I hate solitude but I am afraid of intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself and to…

— Iris Murdoch

“There are two aspects to this world; even though it is fickle, it is within principle. Through the medium of the five…

— Dada Bhagwan

When we die to something, something comes alive within us. If we die to self, charity comes alive; if we die to…

— Fulton J. Sheen

“Without self-discipline a man drifts lower and lower, approximating more and more nearly to the beast, until at last he grovels, a…

— James Allen

“In religion, when is it considered that 'One has Known'? When not only does the adverse internal state of being that hurts…

— Dada Bhagwan

“Amazing to be thinking those words together again: hope , and I .”

— Ali Smith

Sometimes seeming happy can be self-destructive even when you're sane.

— Brandi Carlile

Some men are self-made, but most are the revised work of a wife and children.

— Joyce Brothers

The questionnaire is a simple first step toward becoming more self-aware.

— Nick Morgan

“A reputable person is he who has trust in his own Self. Who is Self? That which is “I am Pure Soul”!”

— Dada Bhagwan

I have in my life concentrated more on self-expression than self-denial.

— Winston Churchill

“There is no one in the world to bother the one who wants to see only his own faults, and no one…

— Dada Bhagwan

“Habits do not die, I have heard, so In a habit, I am transforming myself.”

— Tripurari

Have love for your inner Self and everything else is done for you.

— Amit Ray

“I am my own self. I will not be controlled by anyone else.”

— Kyousuke Motomi

Courage is a self-inflicted quality that gains momentum every time you try it.

— Jeffrey Gitomer

The quest of Truth involves tapas-self-suffering-sometimes even unto death.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I'm very self conscious in a bikini, and I would never get my tummy out onstage.

— Mollie King

“When Self (Khuda) is realized, egoism (Aap-khudi) goes away.”

— Dada Bhagwan

I want you to know that, you can transform everything around you simply by transforming yourself.

— Heritier Ndele

Trust yourself. You've survived a lot, and you'll survive whatever is coming.

— Robert Tew