Self Quotes · Page 166

The subliminal self is in no way inferior to the conscious self. It knows how to choose and to divine.

— Henri Poincare

Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I deserve a year, two years, to live my own self into being.” Depressing”

— Linda Wagner-Martin

Self belief is the first step towards making your own dream come true.

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

“Unless you contribute beyond yourself, your life will feel perpetually self-serving. It’s”

— Joshua Fields Millburn

True victory is self-victory; let that day arrive quickly!

— Morihei Ueshiba

To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything.

— Joan Didion

Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life.

— Theodore Roosevelt

There was a much more self-destructive nature in 'Appetite.' It was a going-for-it-at-all-cost thing that worked then.

— Axl Rose

Earth's immune system - its rapid response team of self-protection - becomes invigorated at times of peril. And one sees it at…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

At midlife, you're pregnant with the best self you can be - someone who has learned enough from both successes and failures…

— Marianne Williamson

When we don't have a boyfriend or girlfriend, we always say, 'Oh, I'm so lonely. I want a date,' or something like…

— RM

You identify with your self. You have a personal history. You have commitments. There are things that you want to experience and…

— Frederick Lenz

It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion. They are always surrounded by worshipers. They are…

— Calvin Coolidge

All players have 'ordinary' periods in their career and it's hard to explain why. So at these times, its all about self…

— Ryan Giggs

You think you can go into all those auditions not knowing who you are? The work came after I found my sense…

— Jenifer Lewis

I have a list as long as my arm but I find those lists sort of self-defeating because you start to name…

— Cillian Murphy

After I graduated from the University of Glasgow, I was a self-employed archaeologist going from dig to dig around Scotland, and it…

— Neil Oliver

Your duty is to be and not to be this or that. 'I am that I am' sums up the whole truth.…

— Ramana Maharshi

... we know that productivity suffers when uncertainty is high. But we've failed to realize the equally destructive effects of too little…

— Judith M Bardwick

Sophie said to me once that she was glad she had been scarred. She said that whoever loved her now would love…

— Cassandra Clare

The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism.…

— Camille Paglia

Its such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, Im…

— Dan Colen

The injustice of defeat lies in the fact that its most innocent victims are made to look like heartless accomplices. It is…

— Anonymous

Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self.

— Terry Pratchett

Particularly with middle-class people, self-absorption is a struggle.

— Anonymous

As a writer, you need a strong sense of self-belief. And when it comes to writing, I've always had that.

— Ronald Frame

Self-pity is like chocolate; as you get older, you can only afford a little bit.

— Charlaine Harris

Sexual self-restraint was only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.

— Muhammad Iqbal

Its better to be yourself and have no friends, than it is to be like your friends and have no self.

— Nishan Singh

If I could give my teenaged self any advice, it would be 'Calm down!'

— Zooey Deschanel

Baseball gives a growing boy self poise and self reliance.

— Al Spalding

By the year 2020 the largest employer in the developed world will be the self.

— Nicholas Negroponte

College was just so essential for my sense of self and my development.

— Claire Danes

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

— Oscar Wilde

Self-interest speaks all manner of tongues and plays all manner of parts, even that of disinterestedness.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Martial art is a form of expression, an expression from your inner self to your hands and legs.

— Donnie Yen

Because when the Creator of matter, tell you you matter, then you have a purpose and then you have self-esteem.

— Brad Stine

It's hard, sometimes, when nothing's stopping you, to know what's stopping you.

— Robert Breault

“Vyavahaar (worldly interactions) means to bring about satisfaction for the other person.”

— Dada Bhagwan