Self Quotes · Page 169

“The hardest thing of all, is just standing in front of a mirror and not recognizing the reflection.”

— Klaudio Marashi

Human self-understanding changes with time, and so also human consciousness deepens.

— Pope Francis

An excuse is the tool our weak self uses to prevent our strongest self from reaching greatness.

— Robin Sharma

Measures of self-precept must be tailored to the domain of psychological functioning being explored.

— Albert Bandura

The self-evident truth which makes men invincible is that inalienably they are inviolable persons.

— Walter Lippmann

Perceived self-inefficacy predicts avoidance of academic activities whereas anxiety does not

— Albert Bandura

The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-satisfied man."

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Only when human beings are able to perceive and acknowledge the Self in each other can there be real peace.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of…

— Susan Sontag

It just seemed hedonistic when I first started acting. It was a pleasurable thing. But as I look back on it now,…

— John Cho

You are never really playing an opponent. You are playing yourself... and when you reach your limits, that is real joy.

— Arthur Ashe

Your whole life is a message. Every act is an act of self-definition . Everything you think, say and do sends a…

— Neale Donald Walsch

The true, or higher part of the self is always seeking the state that mystics talk about, the state in which we…

— James Redfield

“You can be considered vitrag (free from attachment, enlightened one), only if you remain in the ‘real’. Raag-dwesh (attachment-abhorrence) occur when you…

— Dada Bhagwan

Pride that you express to other people is probably ego. Pride that you express silently to yourself is real pride. Pride of…

— Stuart Wilde

Your self-esteem won't come from body parts. You need to step away from the mirror every once in a while, and look…

— Stacy London

I am not worthy of my suffering. A great sentence. It suggests not only that suffering is the basis of the self,…

— Milan Kundera

Great pressure is brought to bear to make us undervalue ourselves. On the other hand, civilization teaches that each of us is…

— Saul Bellow

Love is the only force that can erase the differences between people, that can heal relationships shattered by bitterness…I f the world…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

I believe that a life of integrity I the most fundamental source of personal worth. I do not agree with the popular…

— Stephen Covey

Imagination, on the contrary, which is ever wandering beyond the bounds of truth, joined to self-love and that self-confidence we are so…

— Antoine Lavoisier

“Everyone’s conduct that is visible is a result of the past life and the astitva (the prevalence of 'I') is actually at…

— Dada Bhagwan

“I know you’re right. I mean, about me being a self-centered asshole.” “Well, it’s only sometimes. But still. Just stop.” “I don’t…

— John Green

Sadly the very thing that strikes us as obvious always defeats our thinking about it in more penetrating ways: just as the…

— Kenny Smith

There is something about going to sea. A little bit of discipline, self-discipline and humility are required.

— Prince Andrew

“You are at liberty to develop yourself when you are self employed”

— Sunday Adelaja

It's not enough to just be yourself. You must be your best self

— Neil Strauss

Maturation is the development from environmental support to self-support.

— Bruce Lee

“We can enhance our life by forgiving our self and others.”

— Kishore Bansal

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

— George Eliot

How can one build a better self unless on the ruins of the old?

— John Fowles

When you let go of the egoic self what you're getting in exchange is the whole universe.

— Adyashanti

What sells a book sells a book, same in traditional or self-publishing . You gotta shake your tail feathers.

— Joni Rodgers

To ignore one's spiritual self is unsettling, to say the least. That's a very profound outlook on it.

— Linda Blair

Oh.' I shot upright. 'I was in Mongolia.' Note to self: learn to be a less extreme liar.

— Ally Carter

Creative activity is one of the few self rewarding activities. Being creative is like being in love!

— Woodie Flowers

I grew up in them streets, like everyone else but instead of pushin' drugs, I pushed knowledge of self

— KRS-One

When I said, "I am my mother, but I'm not," I was saying my path would be my own.

— Terry Tempest Williams

“All human experience is one hundred percent self-created. If”

— Sadhguru

Don't be too affected with what other people say about you. It's you who knew your self well, not them.

— Anonymous