Self Quotes · Page 208

If you step up the self-education curve, you will come up with more answers than you can use.

— Jim Rohn

The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

— Pope John Paul II

There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Every man is the painter and the sculptor of his own life.

— Saint John Chrysostom

I don't possess a lot of self-confidence. I'm an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit the stage.

— Arsenio Hall C

It is hard for women not to be overly self critical, I am no exception!

— Kim Lyons

Self-discipline is doing what you know you should do when you don't want to do it.

— Nathan Eldon Tanner

The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directedness serve one well over time.

— Albert Bandura

Part of why I was attracted to the idea of owning a gun was self-defense, and part of it was that I've…

— Jonathan Gottschall

No matter what, I need to maintain my sense of self and always be true to who I am. And that while…

— Lily Collins

You must accept the fact that there is no help but self-help. I cannot tell you how to gain freedom since freedom…

— Bruce Lee

What I wanted to try and figure out was, okay, in contemporary 21st century life the alienation between the self and the…

— DJ Spooky

We say being selfless is a really good thing, but if you think about it you're saying self-less, like without a self.…

— Aimee Lou Wood

To wash one's hair, make one's toilet, and put on scented robes; even if not a soul sees one, these preparations still…

— Anonymous

... photography, like all camera-made images such as film and video, effaces the marks of its making (and maker) at the click…

— Abigail Solomon-Godeau

“You go into extinction by being obsessed about becoming something else and then travelling in the wrong car while your real self…

— Israelmore Ayivor

From the first time he’d met her, he’d sensed an air of contradiction about her. She was very much a woman, but…

— Charles de Lint

The reaction to any word may be, in an individual, either a mob-reaction or an individual reaction. It is up to the…

— D. H. Lawrence

The phrase, the world wants to be deceived, has become truer than had ever been intended. People are not only, as the…

— Theodor Adorno

God must have been engaged from the beginning, and must now be engaged in progressive development, and infinite as God is, he…

— John Andreas Widtsoe

You are still young, so you think only of your own self. You do not notice the tribulations that occur all around…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Mastery over the body - its impulses, its needs, its size - is paramount; to lose control is to risk beauty, and…

— Caroline Knapp

Here's what I do believe very strongly: that once capitalism comes into existence, once it creates this mythology of a stingy nature,…

— Murray Bookchin

Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Not even self-love can always be counted on for support.

— Mason Cooley

On the field of The Self stand a knight and a dragon. You are the knight. Resistance is the dragon.

— Steven Pressfield

All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man.

— Francis Bacon

Until you have given up yourself to Him, you will not have a real self.

— C. S. Lewis

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

— Ann Oakley

Responsibility to self simply means to acknowledge inner truth-our imperfections and our power, our beauty.

— John Pierrakos

Self-restraint is the very keystone of the ethics of vow-taking.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“This is the Self-Esteem Looking-Glass. You have to look in the mirror and compliment yourself.”

— Malia Ann Haberman

A person don't need you, They need what you have, and is only out to take what you have. - Loverboi

— Kenneth Melvin Jr

A skillful man reads his dreams for self-knowledge, yet not the details but the quality

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The relative (vyavahaar) is all [based on] societal norms, whereas the Real (Nischay) is [based on] oneness.”

— Dada Bhagwan

One of the first ways to begin building your self-confidence is to focus on what's great about you.

— Marshall Sylver

It is not love of self but hatred of self which is at the root of the troubles that afflict our world.

— Eric Hoffer

Self-worth comes from who we are in Christ, not what we accomplish in this world.

— Pete Wilson

As for the largest-hearted of us, what is the word we write most often in our cheque-books? "Self.

— Eden Phillpotts

“Loving the self involves faith and trust and belief in who you are, and a willingness to take action upon it.”

— Sanaya Roman