Self Quotes · Page 200

I have always lived as my truest self somewhere on the boundary between masculine and feminine.

— Norah Vincent

The sooner we can separate salvageable skeptics from self-righteous absolutists, the sooner we can move along.

— Sheri S. Tepper

Everything dictated silence and self-control but I couldn't restrain myself and spoke my mind.

— Philip Roth

Self-portraits are a way of revealing something about oneself.

— Eric Kandel

“We all have to start somewhere if us want to do better, an d out of self is what us have to…

— Alice Walker

Striving for excellence is a positive quality. Striving for perfection is self-defeating.

— Melody Beattie

Anyone full of self claims just themselves show Christ and empty yourself.

— Denise Clark

“Ballot papers do not define leaders. Leadership is defined by conviction, vision, passion and inspiration.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

It isn't difficult to leave King Lear or Macbeth, but once you have gone back to yourself, you want it to be…

— Paul Scofield

...it is necessary to reteach a thing its loveliness, to put a hand on its brow of the flower and retell it…

— Galway Kinnell

Self-realisation means that we have been consciously connected with our source of being. Once we have made this connection, then nothing can…

— Swami Paramananda

It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.

— Francis Bacon

All other things have a portion of everything, but Mind is infinite and self-ruled, and is mixed with nothing but is all…

— Anaxagoras

We are so defined by how people see us. We're a very materialistic culture. We're a very image-driven culture. What if that…

— Christine Baranski

When your sin is exposed, you will run toward confession and forgiveness or self-righteousness and self-justification.

— Paul David Tripp

In a tribal organization, even in time of peace, service to tribe or state predominates over all self seeking; in war, service…

— Arthur Keith

I believe that it is made out of the same cloth of mind, but it is an add-on, it was something that…

— Antonio Damasio

“If you take interest in anything that you experience in worldly life, then there will be bondage, whereas if there is no…

— Dada Bhagwan

“Ego contraction, however, prevents precisely the free expansion that enables us to find our connection to spirit. This is often described as…

— Deepak Chopra

If the defeated and depressed group of disciples overnight could change into a victorious movement of faith, based only on autosuggestion or…

— Pinchas Lapide

To look for total satisfaction in oneself is a futile endeavor. Since everything changes from moment to moment, where can self and…

— Ayya Khema

You never look at the backside of a mirror because when you do, it'll affect your future because you're looking at yourself…

— Gus Van Sant

Man is the microcosm of the macrocosm ; the God on earth is built on the pattern of the God in nature.…

— Carl Jung

Islam has taken everything from its wretched believers. They are robbed from their identity and self pride. All they have now is…

— Ali Sina

“Between you and you, let there be no secrets. ~T.F. Hodge”

— T.F. Hodge

Where is your Self to be found? Always in the deepest enchantment that you have experienced.

— Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable.

— M. Scott Peck

The flesh, or human nature, is generally lazy and self-centered.

— Joyce Meyer

Do not imitate others. You are unique. Be who you are. Be your real self.

— Joel Randymar

The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humour.

— Charles Dickens

That's something that I have to work on: Self-confidence and loving myself.

— Marsai Martin

If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.

— Leon Kass

To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self.

— Hamilton Wright Mabie

Stay out of the court of self-judgment, for there is no presumption of innocence.

— Anonymous

I can never win, my self I don't like, I don't like, I don't like, I don't like.

— Korn

One is least sure of one's self, sometimes, when one is most positive.

— Conrad Aiken

Both therapy and friendship possessed the common denominator of discovering a self.

— Dorothy Gilman

I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred.

— Frank Langella

All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell.

— C. S. Lewis

[A]lthough the principle of equality has always been self-evident, it has never been self-executing.

— Barack Obama