Self Quotes · Page 212

I managed to reach a depth of self-loathing that usually takes a night of drinking to achieve.

— Anthony Bourdain

Artists are the worst [people]. They are selfish, self-centred; they don't care what happens.

— Ai Weiwei

“A truly free man is not free 'from' anything, nor free 'to' anything, he is just free. Free within himself.”

— Ilyas Kassam

I am the most fortunate self-taught harpist and non-speaking actor who has ever lived.

— Harpo Marx

Painting self-portraits without clothes on has also given me some publicity.

— Cleo Moore

Trying to observe the slow shift from self-centeredness to empathy is like trying to watch grass grow.

— Neal A. Maxwell

Do you ever feel like you cant trust anyone, well I do all the time...

— Anonymous

Music is a self-propelling thing. You can not rely on anybody but yourself.

— James Vincent McMorrow

A direct statement about yourself is considered objective only if it is negative. If it's positive, it is considered subjective. And 'objective'…

— Barbara Sher

Faith implies four things: self-renunciation, reliance with utter confidence on Christ, obedience, and a changed life.

— Billy Graham

Self-pity is, perhaps, the least becoming of all emotions, and we often indulge in it only beause we are too exhausted to…

— Ivy Baker Priest

The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.

— John Templeton

At the root of fear is low self-esteem. This explains why angry people have low self-esteem, are argumentative, stubborn, and quick to…

— David J. Lieberman

Realize that you are your own biggest critic. People do not see the faults in yourself that you do. So realize that…

— Anonymous

When I looked at things for what they are I was fool enough to persist in my folly and found that each…

— Minor White

Psychoanalysis comes down to the process itself - the self, and life. I think I can say that I'm friends with the…

— Malcolm Morley

There is no magic. Harry Potter was probably the last one. There are no Harry Potters in politics. There are people who…

— Dora Bakoyannis

The hardest period in life is one’s twenties. It’s a shame because you’re your most gorgeous, and you’re physically in peak condition.…

— Helen Mirren

“Graha (things getting accumulated) are not to be reduced. Parigraha, murchha-bhaav (being swooned by material objects or by living beings) needs to…

— Dada Bhagwan

Love is about bottomless empathy, born out of the heart’s revelation that another person is every bit as real as you are.…

— Jonathan Franzen

Politics is the practical exercise of the art of self-government, and somebody must attend to it if we are to have self-government;…

— Elihu Root

The New Testament writers I think conceive of their inspired Scripture writings as flushing out, bringing to articulation, expounding and so on…

— D. A. Carson

The most famous self-made man in the world today is our own Edison. Talk with Mr. Edison and he will tell you…

— B. C. Forbes

Jesus’ example of fidelity to prayer challenges us to examine the time and effort we devote to our own prayer. While prayer…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty's self and beauty's giver.

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

The one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.

— Bede Griffiths

“You are not truly yourself until you no longer define yourself in others’ terms.”

— Shawn Davis

Self-deception is sometimes as necessary a tool as a crowbar.

— Moss Hart

You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt, as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear.

— Paul H. Dunn

We are all naturally self-righteous. It is the family disease of all the children of Adam.

— J. C. Ryle

They say love thy neighbor as thy self , what am I supposed to do jerk him off too?

— Rodney Dangerfield

A rich man with his power only worships his wealth...but a poor man with his faith believes in GOD

— Mercy Pheona

Our self-expression is meant to be a manifestation of the silence of our hearts.

— Matthew Fox

Until we recognize the SELF that exists apart from who we think we are - we cannot know the Ch'an ( ZEN ) MIND

— D.T. Suzuki

If you persistently seek validation from others, you will inadvertently invalidate your own self-worth.

— Anonymous

I do not find my Faith in others, in science, the stars, the heavens; I find it, within myself.

— Eric Nickel

Donald's Trump entire campaign is a self-troll. It's very meta.

— Chrissy Teigen

Cultivate humility it is the way of connectedness. Beware of false humility it leads to self-righteousness.

— Arthur Dobrin

Insecurity is self sabotage. If you want to fly you have to first see your wings.

— Anonymous

My parents raised me to not ever look at race or color, so it doesn't have a big part in my self-identity.

— Robert Griffin III