Self Quotes · Page 181

The person you call an enemy is an exaggerated aspect of your own shadow self.

— Deepak Chopra

If I were a bad black comic I would name my special, Yo mama, and other stories of a lack of self…

— Dov Davidoff

Those who condemn the self-righteous for the sake of self-discovery do so with ironic self-righteousness.

— Timothy Keller

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

History is like self-reflection through the medium of language propelling itself into self-recognition.

— Terence McKenna

The strength to kill is not essential for self-defence; one ought to have the strength to die.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Chris Bradford

How you see yourself is a mirror into how you view other people, and that predicts your outcome of your luck with…

— Gayla Leach

It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I've ever done, so it's…

— Al Yankovic

“What is the essence of the world? Normality. Above normal is poison, and below normal is poison. Come to normality. Normality in…

— Dada Bhagwan

I think that there are a lot of elements and events that will make you scared in life and make you not…

— Daniel Breaker

All writing is an act of self-exploration. Even a grocery list says something about you; how much more does a novel say?

— Steven Saylor

I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go…

— Wole Soyinka

The Jew has his anchorage not in place but in time, in his highly developed sense of history as personal context. Six…

— George Steiner

“Meditation is not required to be one with self. All that is required is that you be about oneself, maintain oneself, and…

— Kenneth G. Ortiz

I'm asking : if the Kosovars have the right to self-determination, why should people on Crimea not have it? I would say:…

— Vladimir Putin

The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever recurring song of retaliation. The oceans of history are…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

In acute diseases the physician must conduct his inquiries in the following way. First he must examine the face of the patient,…

— Hippocrates

“In the end, we do not so much reclaim what we have lost as discover a significantly new self in and through…

— Richard Rohr

Kissinger projects a strong impression of a man at home in the world and on top of his brief. But there are…

— Christopher Hitchens

“In shukladhyan (Internal state that renders the constant awareness of ‘I am pure Soul'), entire world begins to be perceived as faultless.…

— Dada Bhagwan

Chanting a mantra at the beginning of your meditation helps you clear the mind and takes you deep within the self. Chanting…

— Frederick Lenz

I am often asked if leaders are born or made. The answer, of course, is both. Some characteristics, like IQ and energy,…

— Jack Welch

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

— Arsene Houssaye

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

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

— Bolesław Prus

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

— Zig Ziglar

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

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

— Ram Dass

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

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

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

— Cyril Connolly