Self Quotes · Page 190

“there are at least two distinct selves, the public and regal self, the private and human.”

— Walter Lippmann

Self depreciating humour won't win over an employer; if you're not sure of yourself why should they be?

— Whitney Port

One thing I really likes about this world that all people are so selfish which makes me self-dependent.

— Ravi Rawat

I have far ascended beyond every ambition my 16-year-old self ever had.

— Michael Ball

Being all fashioned of the self-same dust, let us be merciful as well as just

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Every year without knowing it I have passed the day When the last fires will wave to me

— W. S. Merwin

We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around.

— Henry David Thoreau

Seeing one's books on the shelf tells you so much about the way somebody has, over the years, put together their private…

— Jeanette Winterson

Recently with IS and Islamist fanaticism, it has become easy for the Israeli government to simply push the Palestinian struggle for self-determination…

— Amos Oz

However, when we are depressed, being reminded of other people's suffering only serves to increase our self-hatred.

— Dorothy Rowe

The world needs to see Christians burning, not with self-righteous fury at the sliding morals in our country, but with passion for…

— Kevin DeYoung

The fragile art of existenceIs kept alive by sheer persistenceThe fragile art of existence.No time for self-pityNo time for dwelling on what…

— Chuck Schuldiner

There are both things in international law: the principle of territorial integrity and right to self-determination.

— Vladimir Putin

“The worldly life (sansar) is the thing created through delusion [wrong belief]. Therefore when you come to know about this wrong belief,…

— Dada Bhagwan

The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance. Good friendships, online or off, urge us toward empathy; they…

— Esther Earl

In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist idea, that agony can be seen…

— Jane Smiley

In rare moments of deep play, we can lay aside our sense of self, shed time's continuum, ignore pain, and sit quietly…

— Diane Ackerman

Someone once said that the most important knowledge is knowledge of our own ignorance. Our schools are depriving millions of students of…

— Thomas Sowell

There are hermit souls that live withdrawn In the place of their self-content; There are souls like stars that dwell apart, In…

— Sam Walter Foss

For all her active goodness, Florence Nightingale herself was far from being the angelic figure of popular adulation: according to Lytton Strachey's…

— David Cannadine

When you start to crack open, don’t waste a moment gathering your old self up into something like you knew before. Let…

— Brian Andreas

Control cannot be called conscience until we are able to take it inside us and make it our own, until--in spite of…

— Judith Viorst

Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as…

— Eckhart Tolle

Education, introspection, self-love and excellence are the only ways to overcome the wrath of ignorance

— Romany Malco

“The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being.”

— D.H. Lawrence

The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

— F. H. Bradley

Buddha indicated that the self, that part of you that incarnates from lifetime to lifetime was causal.

— Frederick Lenz

This loss of self contributes to illness in its myriad forms.

— Sidney Jourard

By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.

— Charles de Lint

The moment you teach someone be ready to be tested based off what you taught someone else

— Edward Shaylitsa

By 17, I was modeling and had bought myself a flat. I've always tried to be self-sufficient.

— Sadie Frost

It is the business of a general to be serene and inscrutable, impartial and self-controlled.

— Sun Tzu

I'm already self-motivated, so I don't really pay attention what people are saying.

— Terry Rozier

Sometimes wearing a mask is the best way to show our true selves.

— Lisa Mangum

There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others.

— George Matthew Adams

I feel the greatest gift we can give to anybody is the gift of our honest self.

— Fred Rogers

There are no limitations to the self except those you believe in.

— Seth

To err is human but to correct one self shows your character.

— Lalit Mohan Pande

If we are in the same state of mind, we just self-reflect, things are dull and gray and kind of boring.

— Frederick Lenz