Self Quotes · Page 156

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

— Gerald Jampolsky

The essence of successful discipline is not technique; rather, it is self-confidence.

— John Rosemond

There is a great deal of self-will in the world, but very little genuine independence of character.

— Frederick William Faber

The recurring theme which predisposes people to depression is rejection and lack of self-esteem.

— Richard Winters

Sometimes your higher self will guide you to make mistakes so you can learn lessons.

— Gabrielle Bernstein

I start with something that makes me angry or confused, and then I write about it. It's a form of self-help.

— Brian K. Vaughan

It's not like my old self - I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore.

— Damon Albarn

It is more important to have self-respect than to gain respect from others.

— Madeleine de Scudery

A mother will flatter herself thinking you are too much like herself, heightened the confusion when he is nowhere to be found!

— Aubrey Smith

If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself...

— Boris Pasternak

“We need dualities or opposites to appreciate, understand and recognize value and distinction in our lives. If we did not have bitter,…

— I. Alan Appt

All our parents have levels of deviousness. We're driven to write about this discrepancy between the bright shining selves they invented and…

— Francine du Plessix Gray

Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.

— Mark Twain

“Upavas' (fasting in the relative sense) means to dwell in One's real form as the Self (Swaroop) , to dwell in the…

— Dada Bhagwan

Giving encouragement to others is a most welcome gift, for the results of it are lifted spirits, increased self-worth, and a hopeful…

— Florence Littauer

I go anywhere I want, do whatever I want when I get there, they let me make self-indulgent TV about that experience,…

— Anthony Bourdain

The true use of Shakespeare or of Cervantes, of Homer or of Dante, of Chaucer or of Rabelais, is to augment one's…

— Harold Bloom

“When we see one another as different aspects of ourselves—as ourselves experiencing a different situation and circumstance—we develop a love, a connection,…

— Joseph P. Kauffman

I met people on college campuses who were defining themselves as genderqueer to express revolutionary feelings, or to communicate their individuality; they…

— Andrew Solomon

Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct. Instinct is a lifesaver for sharks and entrepreneurs alike. Most people can…

— Barbara Corcoran

Running is a road to self-awareness and reliance-you can push yourself to extremes and learn the harsh reality of your physical and…

— Doris Brown Heritage

Our human responsibility for animal rights, plant rights, and the rights of the earth to its health and wholeness is self-evident. Whatever…

— Densey Clyne

“Caring for self is caring for others some of the time. Believing in self is believing in others almost all the time.…

— Asuni LadyZeal

Our thesis is that the idea of a self-adjusting market implied a stark utopia. Such an institution could not exist for any…

— Karl Polanyi

Only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

I'm a big self-critic and I know there is room for improvement.

— Mason Mount

Dare to be what your best self knows you ought to be; dare to be a bigger human being than you have…

— Norman Vincent Peale

“Worst of all, your sense of self becomes a monument to someone else’s bad behavior”

— Steven Stosny

I'm just kind of lazy and messed up and self-managed - self-mismanaged.

— Dan Bejar

Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Overacting is a self-indulgence, while underacting comes either through a lack of talent or a lack of courage.

— Gregory Peck

To be resigned means to find satisfaction in self-denial (Self-denial is the denial of one's lower self).

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

“In a world of selfie-addiction smile usually is the brand name for an essential drug called pretense”

— Munia Khan

Wait, I'm deciding to be my own individual self. And it looks nothing like what anyone else is doing.

— Alicia Keys

Any self-respecting entrepreneur has borrowed money from their mother at some point.

— Kevin Plank

“...people demonize certain types of crime - it's a way of distancing ourselves from the monsters...”

— John Geddes

The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one's self.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Popcorn for breakfast! Why not? It's a grain. It's like grits, but with high self-esteem.

— James Patterson

I'm a tomboy. I used to get into a lot of fights. Don't know why - self-expression, I guess.

— Lena Headey

The self does not realize itself most fully when self-realization is its most constant aim.

— Marianne Moore