Self Quotes · Page 186

People's weaker side is not necessarily their truer self.

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.

— Michel de Montaigne

Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.

— Alexander Pope

“Self-loathing is man’s effort to sweep the moon of footprints.”

— Joseph Grammer

When you mind your own business you will never get caught up in all the nonsense.

— Gee Linder

I always return to Paris, taking my selves along - past self, customary self, the self I never had.

— Helen Bevington

In America, life is introverted, self-absorbed - and so is their music.

— Chris Barber

Proper business planning demands that you focus on the self-interest of the customer at all times.

— Brian Tracy

“Illusory vision (mithyatva) shows inconvenience and Right vision (samyak drashti), the vision of the Self (atma drashti) turns inconvenience into convenience.”

— Dada Bhagwan

Self-disciplin e is necessary, but so is playfulness, flexibility, joy. When you stop demanding perfection of yourself, your writing desk will become…

— Karen Russell

As long as you pretend to be self-sufficient, you short-circuit God's power in your life. You need to admit your inadequacy and…

— Rick Warren

Self-esteem is a powerful force within each of us... Self-esteem is the experience that we are appropriate to life and to the…

— Nathaniel Branden

“There is no problem with the relative, but the problem is with the fact that you are becoming one with the relative.”

— Dada Bhagwan

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.

— Salman Rushdie

It is not recognized in the full amplitude of the word that all freedom is essentially self-liberation - that I can have…

— Max Stirner

I would not exchange the laughter of my heart for the fortunes of the multitudes; nor would I be content with converting…

— Khalil Gibran

What feeling feels like over time. An attempt to screw up what feeling feels like over time. Heartbreak and a high C……

— Stephen Dunn

“...the self in the twentieth century is a voracious nought which expands like the feeding vacuole of an amoeba seeking to nourish…

— Walker Percy

I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally unreal. With all humility, I think whatsoever thy hand…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

The wish to be super-strong is a healthy wish, a vital, compelling, power-producing desire. The more the Superman-Wonder Woman picture stories build…

— William Moulton Marston

but that mimosa grove - the haze of stars, the tingle, the flame, the honey-dew, and the ache remained with me, and…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“It is the thought that the least efficient way of of finding either happiness or pleasure is to pursue them. Put in…

— Simon Blackburn

“Mitch, I don't allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each morning, a few tears, and that's all." I thought…

— Mitch Albom

As we immerse ourselves in the service of others, we find our spiritual selves and come unto Him.

— Derek A. Cuthbert

Albums, with me, have never had an easy birth. Especially when all the songs are self-written songs.

— Marc Almond

Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.

— Woodrow Wilson

Whether we give away too much or too little of ourselves, our vitality dwindles.

— Sue Thoele

Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard.

— Anonymous

“What is the obstacle in this world? Kashaya(s) (i.e. anger, pride, deceit, and greed).”

— Dada Bhagwan

It's a difficult thing as an actor not to repeat one's self.

— Michael Fassbender

I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The past is remembered as if it were a drama in which the self was the leading player

— Anthony Greenwald

“I'm alpha of my own pack of one, wild self or no wild self, before I'm a loyal member of yours.”

— Rhiannon Held

Sometimes people with low self-esteem will try to punish you for caring about them.

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

To acquire true self power you have to feel beneath no one, be immune to criticism and be fearless.

— Deepak Chopra

“Until the ego dissolves or evolves to become one with our true self, we remain slaves of our own egos.”

— Assegid Habtewold

Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self compassion.

— George Gissing

The most important part of my mental self-care is knowing who to call for what kinds of help.

— Jane Park

“To come into the inherent state as the Self is indeed known as liberation (mukti)!”

— Dada Bhagwan