Self Quotes · Page 192

I'm a big self-critic and I know there is room for improvement.

— Mason Mount

Overacting is a self-indulgence, while underacting comes either through a lack of talent or a lack of courage.

— Gregory Peck

To be resigned means to find satisfaction in self-denial (Self-denial is the denial of one's lower self).

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

Wait, I'm deciding to be my own individual self. And it looks nothing like what anyone else is doing.

— Alicia Keys

“In a world of selfie-addiction smile usually is the brand name for an essential drug called pretense”

— Munia Khan

“...people demonize certain types of crime - it's a way of distancing ourselves from the monsters...”

— John Geddes

Any self-respecting entrepreneur has borrowed money from their mother at some point.

— Kevin Plank

The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one's self.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Cat talk is a complicated, self-centered language. If you speak to your cat first, it probably won't speak back. Cats initiate conversations.

— Jean Craighead George

[U]nless oppressed groups stick together, and on alliances of self interest rather than do-goodism; nothing can be accomplished in the long run…

— Shulamith Firestone

In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I came to a clear internal realization that there was nothing I could do as a separated self that would ever fulfill…

— Barbara Marx Hubbard

When you fit meditation into your day, you bring much more of yourself to all the other hours of your day -…

— Jeff Kober

The star of the unconquered will, He rises in my breast, Serene, and resolute, and still, And calm, and self-possessed.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ive been wearing lipstick since I was in 7th grade. That was our form of daring self-expression, because we had to wear…

— Kourtney Kardashian

To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Be not afraid, though every stay Should fail, or be removed away, And thou be stript of all; But lose thyself in…

— Gerhard Tersteegen

Invoking the letters of God's Name without presence of mind is invocation of the tongue; invoking with presence of mind is invocation…

— Ibn Ata Allah

Charisma seems to be more about the intoxicating quality that you have on other people, as opposed to presence, which is more…

— Amy Cuddy

Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them…

— Betty Friedan

“Underneath my imagination there didn't seem to be anything solid except for the space where I shoved my pain and sadness. Besides…

— Jane Devin

Love is not self-sacrifice, but the most profound assertion of your own needs and values. It is for your own happiness that…

— Ayn Rand

Self-actualizing people - highly functioning people who live at extraordinary levels of awareness - train their minds to focus on what they…

— Wayne Dyer

The self does not realize itself most fully when self-realization is its most constant aim.

— Marianne Moore

Popcorn for breakfast! Why not? It's a grain. It's like grits, but with high self-esteem.

— James Patterson

I'm a tomboy. I used to get into a lot of fights. Don't know why - self-expression, I guess.

— Lena Headey

You can be self-empowered and still learning about how you think about things daily.

— Tori Amos

People are already self-selected by the time they've decided to become scientists.

— Jonathan Miller

Novel-writing is a settling, lovely space. I call it self-indulgent - I feel mildly guilty about it.

— Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

Pushing anyone down is like pushing your self to no where.

— Sheila Poblacion

Sometimes God has to remind you that you're weak so that you can be set free from your "self-sufficiency."

— Tullian Tchividjian

Guilt [is] a tool, rather than a weapon against the self.

— Veronica Roth

Forgiveness is nothing more and nothing less than an act of self-healing-an act of self-empowermen t.

— Joyce Meyer

Early on when I started talking about my weight, it was self-deprecating; everything was a joke.

— Gabriel Iglesias

It's been said to me that I'm self-destructive because I'll walk away from things that are good.

— Ariel Rechtshaid

Have respect for yourself and no one can take away your self respect.

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Our vices are attempts to combine self-medication and enjoyment.

— Mason Cooley

Those who determine not to put self to death will never see the will of God fulfilled in their lives.

— Sadhu Sundar Singh

To me, it's that incredible sense of belonging and peace within your own self and heart that really is joy.

— Goldie Hawn