Self Quotes · Page 213

Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.

— Tom Hopkins

Life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. What you believe about Life will be your experience of Life.

— Neale Donald Walsch

I exercise strong self control. I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.

— W. C. Fields

Note to self-give serious thought to becoming an alcoholic.

— Jill Shalvis

I think I always had joie de vivre. But I had pretty bad self-esteem growing up and much of my adult life.

— Geena Davis

Man does not live by bread alone. Many prefer self-respect to food.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Humility is nothing but the disappearance of self in the vision that God is all.

— Andrew Murray

Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it.

— C. S. Lewis

It's a career that's enticing because you go on stage, for example, and people clap. You get that affirmation, but you can't…

— Miranda Otto

“Whoever looks into himself as into vast space and carries galaxies in himself, also knows how irregular all galaxies are; they lead…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

All parenting turns on a crucial question: to what extent parents should accept their children for who they are, and to what…

— Andrew Solomon

Being in the library is so addictive for me that I really have to exercise self-control so I can get some writing…

— Janet Fitch

Your higher self is always nudging you toward a resolution of the conflicts that you experience in your life, so that you…

— Wayne Dyer

I don't know why, but there's always the part of you, the part that hides in the shadows protecting the self-destruct button,…

— Anonymous

I'm much more of a risk taker. I'm more fearless now than when I was 18. I was much more self-aware and…

— Jessica Alba

How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! Supreme selfishness is inculcated upon him as his only duty.

— Charles Lamb

What good does it do to have all the riches of the world and all the world's pleasures? They will all disappear…

— Rama Swami

Buddhism doesn't really have much time for political mass-movements. We are so trained to think of politics in terms of acting collectively,…

— Pankaj Mishra

Rather do what is nothing to the purpose than be idle; that the devil may find thee doing. The bird that sits…

— Francis Quarles

To speak about this universal force that will lead us beyond on the last horizon of our known self toward a wiser,…

— Arianna Huffington

“He often acted out of impulse just so that he could then devote his leisure hours to mulling why; he relished self-analysis,…

— Eleanor Catton

Sheldon Vanauken wrote that the strongest argument for Christianity is Christians, when they are drawing life from God. The strongest argument against…

— John Ortberg

God -- if he really exist -- is good, alive, self-conscious, and governs all things according to his benevolent and holy providence;…

— William Batchelder Greene

Identity is marketed in national capitalism as a property. It is something you can purchase, or purchase a relation to. Or it…

— Lauren Berlant

Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.

— Albert Ellis

“Self-control is not about slimming down but about simmering down.”

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

“I’m my true self when I’m with you. I feel like I don’t have to hide.”

— J.C. Reed

Self-realization is effortless. What you are trying to find is what you already are.

— Ramesh S Balsekar

The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.

— Bruce Lee

We stayed at home to write, to consolidate our outstretched selves.

— Sylvia Plath

We have an infinite capacity for self interest, yet the infinite has absolutely no interest in us

— Dean Cavanagh

All conflict we experience in the world, is a conflict within our own selves.

— Brenda Shoshanna

“To every sweetheart he (Casanova) gave himself exclusively; he had so many selves.”

— William Bolitho

Thoroughly to believe in one's own self, so one's self were thorough, were to do great things.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

A road that perhaps more than any other leads to self atrophy is undedicated money.

— E. Stanley Jones

“It is more substantial to represent a purpose, rather than just a title.”

— T.F. Hodge

“We can never see what we never question, for we who escapes, blinds us”

— Farley Maglaya

Love places someone else in the centre of your being and your own self is blurred.

— Mohsin Hamid

The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.

— Theodor Reik

I try not to always use self-check-out and things like that!

— Emily Berrington