Self Quotes · Page 205

Every quality I despise in George Bush is a quality I despise in myself. He is my worst self realized.

— David Shields

“There is no place or circumstance in this world that can depress You (the Self).”

— Dada Bhagwan

You are an endless conglomeration of awareness. You're not one singular self. You're a corporation.

— Frederick Lenz

I have amazing collaborators as well, but I want to learn more and be a self-contained unit.

— FKA twigs

There is nothing else anything like so interesting to ourselves as ourselves.

— James Harvey Robinson

Running Makes you more spiritually aware and in tune with your inner-self.

— Fauja Singh

Self-nurturance, or learning to bask in bliss, is an acquired art form.

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

I'm always trying to prove to my 17-year-old self that I can do creative things I thought weren't possible.

— Virgil Abloh

Self-conquest is really self-surrender. Yet before we can surrender ourselves we must become ourselves. For no one can give up what he…

— Thomas Merton

If you ever want to study acting you should be around an enlightened person for a while, because all they do is…

— Frederick Lenz

[Europe has] this tradition of self revelation in popular music. We have it here - it's called Country Western Music... I think…

— Leonard Cohen

You're your truest self when you're young, and when somebody says something, and you're like, 'Oh, maybe I'm not normal,' you shut…

— King Princess

Being a student in an art & design school, that was the moment for me, that was when I began to develop…

— Tim Gunn

Laughter... is like a hurricane: once it reaches a certain point, it becomes self-feeding, self-supporting. You laugh not because the jokes are…

— Stephen King

Dwelling upon the self too much produces terrible fatigue. A man in that position is deaf and blind to everything else. The…

— Carlos Castaneda

“Kashaya (attachment-abhorrence, anger-pride-deceit-greed) means that the relative self (pratisthit atma) within continuously experiences misery, experiences continuous restlessness.”

— Dada Bhagwan

As one studies these preconditions, one becomes saddened by the ease with which human potentiality can be destroyed or repressed, so that…

— Abraham Maslow

The list of qualities (an investor should have) include patience, self-reliance, common sense, a tolerance for pain, open-mindedness, detachment, persistence, humility, flexibility,…

— Peter Lynch

The Great Society went wrong for three major reasons. First, the self-organization the Johnson administration promoted turned out to be not the…

— David Frum

Man was entering under false pretenses the sphere of incredible facilities, acquired too cheaply, below cost price, almost for nothing, and the…

— Bruno Schulz

Spirituality without a prayer life is no spirituality at all, and it will not last beyond the first defeats. Prayer is an…

— Anonymous

We were greeted by the minister whose inclusive, non-judgemental smile was no more than a whisker away from a smirk. Have I…

— Jenny Diski

The healthy spirit of self-help created among working people would, more than any other measure, serve to raise them as a class;…

— Samuel Smiles

Let's face it: Serious self-scrutiny has not been one of our notable characteristics. We are far more aware of what we want…

— Seymour Sarason

Making our goal anything other than peace is emotionally self-destructive.

— Marianne Williamson

Immaturity is the inability to delay self gratification.

— Mike Murdock

“To know yourself you must know the transience of your self.”

— Ilyas Kassam

“It is crucial for us to understand the origins of our low self-esteem before we can transcend it.”

— Kevin Solomons

“Not sure I’m capable of selfless. Spent most of my life on the -ish side of self, rather than the -less.” “No”

— Vi Keeland

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

There seems to really be a self-love theme in every life right now¦

— Adgjm/ptw

“[T]he Enneagram is, at its most abstract, a universal mandala of the self—a symbol of each of us.”

— Don Richard Riso

When painters feel the need to make a shift toward self-discovery, they turn to black and white for a time.

— Barnett Newman

Love, sought as an escape from the burden of the self, turns rapidly into a captivity.

— Hugh MacLennan

To the degree I was too brash, Too self-confident or too pushy, I apologize.

— Newt Gingrich

“I figure the more people think I'm just mildly weird, the less likely they are to know how weird I really am.”

— Melanie Hooyenga

There's nothing like self-improvement to get your friends to like you for who you were.

— Robert Breault

You can not Believe in GOD until you can Believe in your self.

— AD

Fools have a great advantage over the wise; they are always self-satisfied.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

You have a deeper, wiser, loving self that you can always ask for help.

— Annette Funicello