Self Quotes · Page 168

I grew up in Queensland, and my dad was a tradesman and my mum an insurance agent, both self-employed.

— Grant Bowler

My truths are all foreknown,This anguish self-revealed.I'm naked to the bone,With nakedness my shield.

— Theodore Roethke

There are two persons in the world we never see as they are, one's self and one's other self.

— Arsene Houssaye

Revenge is self-defeating. It will eat away you until there is nothing left.

— Chris Bradford

Don't change your self for someone, if they don't appreciate the way you are find someone who will...

— Cuts And Scars

“There's always the option of deciding for yourself who you are and what you'll become.”

— Jodi Meadows

The more trust you develop in your body, the more trust you develop in your deeper self.

— Stephen Russell

I wish to blur the firm boundaries which we self-certain people tend to delineate around all we can achieve.

— Hannah Hoch

Yves Saint Laurent liked women to put their hands in their pockets, or to hold cigarettes, and act a bit like boys.…

— Carine Roitfeld

We waste time comparing our self with others, instead we should know we have a competition with self and strive to be…

— Senora Roy

Change is when you realize what you must do to get from where you used to be and be better than your…

— Barbara Bell

We are unhappy because we no longer have our self esteem. We are unhappy, because we no longer believe we are a…

— Og Mandino

The assumption of all education is that learning will be directed toward constructive ends and I'm convinced that colleges should support students…

— Ernest L. Boyer

There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by…

— Anonymous

I'm working on a poetry collection for Papaveria Press . It fills me with trepidation - poetry is something I'm much more…

— Theodora Goss

Seeing into one's self-nature is seeing into nothingness. Seeing into nothingness is true seeing & eternal seeing

— Shenhui

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. . .…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Now I felt the long-forgotten urgency of lovemaking, when it seems one's human selves leave, to be replaced by hungry beasts bolting…

— Margaret George

I liked the military life. They teach you self-sufficiency early on. I always say that I learned most of what I know…

— Raymond Kelly

The development of our spiritual nature should concern us most. Spirituality is the highest acquisition of the soul, the divine in man;…

— David O. McKay

Is the American tradition of self-reliance disappearing? That's a painful question for conservatives to ponder. After all, we're dedicated to reducing the…

— Edwin Feulner

“According to Freudian psychology, the ego is that part of us that allows us to correctly perceive external reality and function well…

— Stanislav Grof

“We have become disconnected from our true selves, and naturally, this has produced a deep sense of lack in our lives, causing…

— Joseph P. Kauffman

A good soldier is a blind, heartless, soulless, murderous machine. He is not a man. His is not a brute, for brutes…

— Jack London

The profile of a wealthy person is this hard work, perseverance, and most of all, self-discipline.

— Zig Ziglar

For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others.

— Bolesław Prus

For the few little successes I may seem to have, there are acres of misgivings and self-doubt.

— Sylvia Plath

Grit and self-control are related, but they're not the same thing.

— Angela Duckworth

When someone says he loves you, doubt him but when someone says 'its over', believe it by heart.

— Senoraroy

If you're interested in the door to the heavens opening, start with the door to your own secret self.

— Elizabeth Lesser

Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

— George Bernard Shaw

The ego is a tool. You don't separate it. It's a tool for the spirit.

— Ram Dass

We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.

— Cyril Connolly

While you had the chance to live, did you become your true self?

— Michael Meade

We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.

— Anonymous

The ego doesn't know that the source of all energy is within you, so it seeks it outside.

— Eckhart Tolle

Without self-discipline, a noncommissioned officer can never develop or maintain personal integrity.

— Silas L. Copeland

“Do not pity yourself. If you wallow in self-pity, life will be an endless nightmare.”

— Kafka Asagiri

Self is the great antichrist and anti-God in the world, that sets up itself above all else.

— Stephen Charnock

So much of my life has been about self-effacement, pretense, masquerading, concealment, and indirection.

— Marlon Riggs