Self Quotes · Page 224

Introspecting self is a mission, whose aim is to stay planted in reality.

— Senoraroy

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.

— Golda Meir

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude.

— Thomas Browne

I'm suspicious of dreams in books too. Because they're boring and too self-serving.

— Jill Alexander Essbaum

It seems we are suffering from a very narrow and self serving reading of the Gospel right now.

— Richard Rohr

A self-respecting man is a man without a country. A fatherland is birdlime...

— Emile M. Cioran

We talk of choosing our friends, but our friends are self-elected.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the…

— George Bernard Shaw

It's true that what you find in New York is something other than America. Only small towns and small countries are self-satisfied;…

— Simone de Beauvoir

There has never been anything but the Self. There is no world, there is no time, there is no place, there is…

— Frederick Lenz

You are complete. Completion has taken place in you eons ago. Accept yourself. Enjoy yourself. This time will never be again, so…

— Frederick Lenz

I would just encourage my younger self to not care about people's perceptions and to love myself fully and to keep progressing…

— Ashton Sanders

The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a willingness to die to the…

— Fulton J. Sheen

“Because we are made in God's image, in fleeing from a relationship with a loving God, we are also running from being…

— Kathleen Norris

I realize how depraved it was to instill false guilt in an innocent child's conscience, causing a distorted image of life, God,…

— Mary Griffith

Self-censorship, whether known or unknown, is an unwelcome brake on creativity; it stifles self-expression and hence prevents a work from reaching the…

— Semir Zeki

Media bias in editorials and columns is one thing. Media fraud in reporting 'facts' in news stories is something else. ...The issue…

— Thomas Sowell

“I learnt the most important thing you have to know: how to look after yourself. To stand by your own decisions. I…

— Henning Mankell

The State has always one purpose: to limit, control, subordinate the individual and subject him to the general purpose Through its censorship,…

— Max Stirner

Service rendered as a gift or love-offering to Life: work that is engaged in, not for self or for profit, but as…

— Henry Thomas Hamblin

What I’m talking about is more than recompense for past injustices—more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or a reluctant bribe.…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Because the challenges will continue to show up in life, but if you have the inner strength - whether that be your…

— Tony Robbins

The power of mistakes enables us to reframe creative blocks and turn them around...The troublesome parts of our work, the parts that…

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

But I often think we talk way too much in this society, that we consider verbalization a panacea that it very often…

— Dennis Lehane

“What causes Conflict? Agnan (Delusionary knowledge, Knowledge other than the True Self).”

— Dada Bhagwan

I still say the only education worth anything is self-education.

— Robert Frost

Be real with your self, and others will do that same to you, it' snot difficult, so why make it seem like…

— Anonymous

I have never agreed with my other self wholly. The truth of the matter seems to lie between us.

— Khalil Gibran

Self-awakening starts with catching yourself having been spiritually sound asleep.

— Senoraroy

Selfish people only see what they do for other people and are lovers of self...

— Anonymous

At the core of the risk-free society is a self-indulgent failure of nerve.

— Buzz Aldrin

Henry Miller may write about revelers self-woven into a human hooked rug, because his ecstasy is solemn.

— A. J. Liebling

I needed to be more self-determining, and the most self-determining thing you can do in comedy is stand-up.

— Neal Brennan

There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.

— Al Pacino

Fear comes from personal self-acceptance and not the self.

— GRiZ

The is a secret for greater self-control, the science points to one thing: the power of paying attention.

— Kelly McGonigal

When it comes to content, the best marketers know that self promotion is good!

— Kieran Flanagan

I find I always throw limbs here and there in my lyrics. I kind of put my physical self into the songs.

— Martina Sorbara

Free will and consciousness is an illusion, and the self is a complex of memes.

— Susan Blackmore

I think meditation is good for the self. Having that moment with yourself and your mind is essential.

— Omarion