Self Quotes · Page 148

I'd like to get something small and self-generated in before Black Rock has whatever life that it has.

— Katie Aselton

When a woman starts to disentangle herself from patriarchy, ultimately she is abandoned to her own self.

— Sue Monk Kidd

Back to my childhood where those monsters reside. They snack on innocence and dine on self esteem.

— Jimmy Buffett

Every truth is self-acting and possesses inherent strength.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.

— Christina Stead

He is conscious only of God...To be conscious of knowing God is to know about God and self.

— Meister Eckhart

Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“You are worthless to others if you don't know your own self and self-worth.”

— Bryant McGill

I'm really very self-confident when it comes to my work. When I take on a project, I believe in it 100%. I…

— Michael Jackson

I'd rather call myself a mischief-maker, an imp, rather than a satirist. Satirist sounds so self important. Plus no one is calling…

— Mo Rocca

“But eventually I gave up: on sleeping, on self-control, on my career, on myself. I gave up on all of it. I…

— Cat Marnell

It's not a problem. There are people out there with much worse problems than mine."-Cynthia "Doesn't make yours any more fun to…

— Jennifer Crusie

When you start to build self-worth and redeem your magnificence, the fears go away... you void your fears via your realization of…

— Lee Carroll

If you're comfortable with yourself-which everyone can get to, to some extent-that's when you start getting into who is your real self.

— Shirley MacLaine

Focus on making you the best you you can be as an actor and follow your own path. You can't compare an…

— Craig Sheffer

If you asked me to go back to being 14 or 15, I couldn't - it was a terrifying time. I was…

— Florence Welch

He who wants to educate himself in Chess must evade what is dead in Chess... the habit of playing with inferior opponents;…

— Emanuel Lasker

His constant fight is with the Nafs (self-interest), the root of all disharmony and the only enemy of man. By crushing this…

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

To say ‘I love you’ one must first know how to say the ‘I.’ The meaning of the ‘I’ is an independent,…

— Ayn Rand

Finding happiness is like finding yourself. You don't find happiness, you make happiness. You choose happiness. Self-actualization is a process of discovering…

— David Leonhardt

Obeying the Spirit instead of your own self-centered whims will lead you to places you've never been, challenge you in ways you…

— Bill Hybels

This is not a matter of virtue-it's a matter of my choosing to do the work of somehow altering or getting free…

— David Foster Wallace

If I never explore my limits, my bodymind will gradually tighten and become unconscious. If I regularly explore my limits in a…

— Ken Dychtwald

The phrase, 'You must die before you die,' is found in most of the world religions. If you don't learn how to…

— Richard Rohr

To me photography can be simultaneously a record and a mirror or window of self-expression.

— Eikoh Hosoe

If I could give my younger self one piece of advice, I would say, 'Lose weight.'

— Miriam Margolyes

A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry.

— Erica Jong

Self-help books are for the birds. Self-help groups are where it's at.

— Janice Dickinson

I really can't say I pay enough attention to anyone else to recognize if they are self-producing.

— Gabby Windey

self-possession is the ability to face without fear life in all its contradictions.

— Vivian Gornick

I'm a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that's never healthy.

— J. Cole

I'm a lot more self-confident than I used to be. To some extent I owe that to my children and my husband.

— Claudia Schiffer

For our self respect depends upon our ability to make requital, for good or for evil.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

He that neither knows himself nor thinks he can learn of others is not fit for company.

— Benjamin Whichcote

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

— May Sarton

Among the earliest forms of human self-awareness was the awareness of being meat.

— David Quammen

When I say "I," I mean a thing absolutely unique, not to be confused with any other.

— Lola-Butterflie

Self-realization is the object of the Gita, as it is of all scriptures.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“I’ve come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are.”

— Richard Paul Evans

Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue.

— Anonymous