Self Quotes · Page 193

Accepting yourself only as long as you look a certain way isn't self-love. It's self destruction.

— Laci Green

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.

— W. H. Auden

I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another.

— Virginia Woolf

I have met a thousand scamps; but I never met one who considered himself so. Self-knowledge isn't so common.

— Ouida

No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there's no future in riots.

— Jesse Jackson

“Learn to catch yourself and stop yourself immediately when you are engaging in negative self-talk.”

— Bryant McGill

I don't aim to be smart, I aim to be wise there's a difference.

— Zarah

I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.

— M. Scott Peck

All living organisms serve themselves, of course, but through language, we humans have the capacity to rationalize our self-service.

— AnuPam

Frankly I think too much of politics has become artificial, has become the creation of a self that is actually divorced from…

— Zohran Mamdani

“Gnan (knowledge of the Self) can never become agnan (ignorance of the Self). It is considered agnan only when the upayog (applied…

— Dada Bhagwan

“What will the ego not do? It is the ego that has given rise to all this. And when the ego leaves,…

— Dada Bhagwan

What we get in punk these days are layers of 'anti-', and so many of them are so self-serving. It's not about…

— Geoff Rickly

Do not fear the struggle.Honor it as a necessary part of learning and growth.Anticipate it and meet it with your highest self.It…

— Anonymous

The only motive strong enough to induce men to exercise the self control required by the religion of Jesus is love.

— Marion G. Romney

Each time you meet an old emotional pattern with presence, your awakening to truth can deepen. There’s less identification with the self…

— Tara Brach

... the histories of Blacks and Jews in bondage and out of bondage, have been blood histories pursued through our kindred searchings…

— June Jordan

Behavior must also be adequately assessed under appropriate circumstances. Ill-defined global measures of perceived self-efficacy or defective assessments of performance will yield…

— Albert Bandura

Wholeness or health is our natural state. The nature of healing involves removing obstructions to this natural state and bringing individuals into…

— Richard Carlson

In life courtesy and self-possession, and in the arts style, are the sensible impressions of the free mind, for both arise out…

— William Butler Yeats

I believe that a religious conversion is the only way to stimulate the peoples of the industrialized nations to be willing to…

— Arnold J. Toynbee

Meditation is to attain to a no-mindness, to a state of no-thought. In that opening of no-thought, in that kind of space,…

— Rajneesh

There is provided an escape from the narrowness and poverty of the individual life, and the possibility of a life which is…

— John Caird

Finding oneself was a misnomer; a self is not found but made.

— Jacques Barzun

Anytime you make a person into something other than himself, you make a monster.

— Roger Rosenblatt

You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

— Bindi Irwin

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.

— Anonymous

In self-defense and in defense of the innocent, cowardice is the only sin.

— Dean Koontz

Play is the most natural method of self-healing that childhood affords.

— Erik Erikson

Your level of performance matches your dominant self image.

— Jack Canfield

Education must award self-confidence, the courage to depend on one's own strength.

— Sai Baba

Petty things become unimportant when people are impassioned about a purpose higher than self.

— Stephen Covey

We must not only be patient with others, infinitely patient, but also with our own poor selves.

— Shoghi Effendi

“The true way of knowing yourself includes neither self-praise nor self-blame, but only a wise silence.”

— Vernon Howard

“Moksha [Ultimate Liberation] is not found in the scriptures, Moksha is in the Soul [Our Real Self].”

— Dada Bhagwan

There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.

— George Shinn

“The spiritual self is the deepest, most integrated aspect of who we are.”

— Marya Hornbacher

An individual's arrogance is always in proportion to his lack of self-assurance.

— Otto Weininger

You're wonderful the way you are and you don't need Wikihow to tell you that.

— Senoraroy