Self Quotes · Page 162

I'm very fortunate. I'm not much of a self-promoter or anything.

— Paul Beatty

I don't think you're human unless you go through some [self-destructi on].

— Christopher Abbott

The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.

— E. B. White

Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.

— Ron Paul

How many people have been thus led, through lack of self-confidence, to stifle their most justified doubts?

— Simone Weil

I do a lot of laughing at my own self in life, so I think I come at things with a pretty…

— Anonymous

If you don't have some self doubts and fears when you pursue a dream, then you haven't dreamed big enough.

— Joe Vitale

My own self-consciousness cries out to me coldly: how does one love zero?

— Anonymous

In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by…

— Jean Piaget

It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz: Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person…

— Richard Bach

We examine everything in existence and we come to see that everything is transitory and temporal, that which is left over is…

— Frederick Lenz

Low self esteem is rooted in many things. One of them is not spending time to appreciate the gifts we've been given.

— Nouman Ali Khan

“If the ownership of this ‘plot (non-Self)’ ceases, one will become the owner of the whole universe. And if one becomes the…

— Dada Bhagwan

Good! Hang in there! It's normal! [Low self-esteem] Often it's a sign of intelligence (but don't let that go to your head…

— Patrick Stump

Have you ever had that feeling—that you’d like to go to a whole different place and become a whole different self?

— Haruki Murakami

If the 'self-life' is supreme, Satan does not have to be invited in. The lines are already set for the 'electric' current…

— F. Huegel

Do not imagine that Art is something which is designed to give gentle uplift and self-confidence . Art is not a brassiere.…

— Julian Barnes

“The moment you have a self at all, there is a possibility of putting yourself first - wanting to be the centre…

— C.S. Lewis

The most degrading of human passions is the fear of death. It tears away the restraints and the conventions which alone make…

— Gertrude Bell

The person who imagined that he could not be the victim of propaganda because he could distinguish truth from falsehood, is extremely…

— Jacques Ellul

The first duty of a Christian, of a disciple and follower of Jesus Christ, is to deny himself. To deny oneself means…

— Innocent of Alaska

Well, I do think, particularly the way I work, the better images occur when you're moving to the fringes of your own…

— Jerry Uelsmann

“I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. Then they told me it…

— Jules Feiffer

you once said to would like to sit beside me while I write. Listen in that case I could not write at…

— Susan Cain

I would much rather be someone with high self-esteem and less funny.

— Nikki Glaser

“When is one considered to be in the awareness of ‘one’s own Self’? It is when all the desires become mild.”

— Dada Bhagwan

Selfishness and self-absorption are deadly charm-exterminators.

— Loretta Young

Do you polish your pants cause I can see my self in them ;)

— Anonymous

Each day I think about you more than I think about my self.

— Simphiwe Scientis Dumi

“When the self is not engaged in apprehending objects it becomes aware of itself.”

— W.T. Stace

One of the reasons that I needed to become an actor was that I didn't have any self-confidence.

— David Jason

As individuals, I just think that our biggest responsibility is to be self-aware, and some of us are not.

— Pharrell Williams

When you birth a child, it's like a bloody giving of self to the creation of a life.

— Ezra Miller

I run each day to preserve the self I attained the day before and to secure the self yet to be.

— George A. Sheehan

Faith is in the soul. Belief is thought. Faith is so rich. Faith gives me my spiritual self.

— Ram Dass

The spontaneous power of the child, his demand for self-expression, can not by any possibility be suppressed.

— John Dewey

To double your income, triple your investment in self-development.

— Robin Sharma

Style has always been in my mind the author's Self, the creative expression of that Self.

— Whit Burnett

I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.

— Harold Ramis

Through it all I have learned that parenting is basically a life of self sacrifice.

— Stephen Covey