Self Quotes · Page 221

Don't abuse yourself or withhold self-love or self-care.

— Bryant H. McGill

In all unbelief there are these two things: a good opinion of one's self, and a bad opinion of God.

— Horatius Bonar

You cannot slay yourself in me, Nor I to all eternity Destroy my truest self in you.

— William Rose Benet

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.

— Nate Silver

I'm very self-conscious as an actor, with performances and things, and I don't like watching my own stuff.

— Matthew Lewis

Self-pity is essentially humorless, devoid of that lightness of touch which gives understanding of life.

— Anthony Powell

Apocalypse can mean the unveiling of the deeper self of humanity.

— Barbara Marx Hubbard

Self-will seems to be the only virtue that takes no account of man-made laws.

— Bruce Lee

An artwork should point in more than one direction, not be this sort of placating, self-demonstrating, witnessing element.

— Luc Tuymans

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the…

— Bell Hooks

“When we first believe we think we can do it all; our passion is so strong. But after a time we start…

— Hayley and Michael DiMarco

“Moksha is not difficult if one meets a ‘Gnani Purush’ [the enlightened one]. If one believes that moksha can be attained without…

— Dada Bhagwan

“We’ are “asang” (the Self is non-attached; free from mind, body, speech). That which does not let you experience ‘this’ is all…

— Dada Bhagwan

All of the searching, all of the struggling, all of the efforting to find your true self is naturally revealed in open,…

— Gangaji

When you have a lot of fake selves, most of the time it's because you haven't had parents around so you try…

— Benjamin Clementine

I think that's what makes a successful marriage: a mindful sense of self and the ability to make clear choices to stay…

— Goldie Hawn

Insecurity refers to a profoud sense of self-doubt-a deep feeling of uncertainty about our basic worth and our place in the world.…

— Beth Moore

Over against any cognition, there is an unknown but knowable reality; but over against all possible cognition, there is only the self-contradictory.…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

Self-discipline, although difficult, and not always easy while combating negative emotions, should be a defensive measure. At least we will be able…

— Dalai Lama

Everyone has a self-destructive nature in them. It's whether you feed it or not. You don't have to be a pop star…

— Madonna Ciccone

That isn’t about money, fame, or power. It’s about will, dedication, commitment, and knowing your self-worth. You can be poor as dirt…

— Jennifer Hudson

I really like Adam Curtis' 'Century of Self.' It's about how artists have failed the general public by being so exclusive, like…

— Weyes Blood

Art and life really are the same, and both can only be about a spiritual journey, a path towards a re-union with…

— Genesis P-Orridge

Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions,…

— Morris Raphael Cohen

The stench of the trail of Ego in our History. It is ego - ego, the fountain cry, origin, sole source of…

— George Meredith

The podcast 'Note to Self' is 'the tech show about being human'. Human notions of privacy have changed.

— David Hepworth

“A person has to be comfortable in his or her own skin.”

— Fennel Hudson

To me, poetry is about survival first of all. Survival of the individual self, survival of the emotional life.

— Gregory Orr

Remember that nothing is so damaging to self-esteem as waiting for a telephone or door-bell that doesn't ring.

— Marjorie Hillis

Is it against justice or reason to love ourselves? And why is self-love always a vice?

— Luc de Clapiers

A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-assertion.

— Eric Hoffer

Because there is no man who can be true and just judge of himself, so much will self-love deceive him.

— Dante Alighieri

You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It may be called the Master Passion, the hunger for self-approval.

— Mark Twain

Lots of people aren't self-promoters. You've just never heard of them.

— Dorothy Gambrell

To know thyself--in others self-concern; Would'st thou know others? read thyself--and learn!

— Friedrich Schiller

I wish I had the energy that my grandchildren have - if only for self-defense.

— Gene Perret

What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?

— Mae Jemison

It's important to let kids be themselves and to let them make mistakes. Self-discovery goes a long way.

— Kristin Cavallari

“You do not have to go to moksha; you have to become your own (True) Self.”

— Dada Bhagwan