Self Quotes · Page 229

The journey toward self-discovery is life's greatest adventure.

— Arianna Huffington

I would rather be old for a shorter time than be old before my time.

— Michel de Montaigne

Women have been denied access to advanced methods of self discovery throughout the ages.

— Frederick Lenz

Self-blame usually has an undertone of self-congratulation.

— Mason Cooley

Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias.

— Augustus William Hare

“Attachments to the self-and/or others, give birth to Karma.”

— Heidi M. Morrison (Heidi Morrison Teachings

People with high but unstable self-esteem exhibit the greatest hostility.

— Roy Baumeister

But I don't think anybody with any self-respect would admit to being Goth

— Rozz Williams

There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That’s perfectly all right: it’s the aperture to finding out what’s right. Science…

— Carl Sagan

“What is the cause of karmic bondage? It is agnan (ignorance of the Self). What is the cause for moksha (ultimate liberation)?…

— Dada Bhagwan

If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee's eyes, an intelligent self-assured personality looks back at us. If they are animals,…

— Frans de Waal

“Just be yourself instead of trying to prove yourself. For if you do, the former will automatically take care of the latter.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

You will eat not to satisfy your palate but your hunger. A self-indulgent man lives to eat; a self-restrained man eats to…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“True Love is when you are able to see yourself in another, when you recognize that there is no separation between you…

— Joseph P. Kauffman

The laws of our being are such that we must perform some degree of use in the world, whether we intend it,…

— Lydia M. Child

People need self-respect, but self-respect must be earned - it cannot be self-respect if it's not earned - and the only way…

— Anonymous

I almost once wanted to publish a self help book saying, 'How To Be Happy, by Stephen Fry: Guaranteed Success'. And people…

— Stephen Fry

Don't think because I'm a positive dude, I'm going to always say something nice. If you come at me crooked, one too…

— Malik Yoba

Have you never observed that children will sometimes, of a sudden, give utterance to ideas which makes us wonder how they got…

— Johann Gottfried Herder

Pride takes innumerable forms but has only one end: self-glorification. That’s the motive and ultimate purpose of pride—to rob God of legitimate…

— C. J. Mahaney

Character is far more important than intellect in making a man a good citizen or successful at his calling- meaning by character…

— Theodore Roosevelt

James says, "You desire and do not have; so you kill" (Jas. 4:2). We kill marriages and we kill unborn babies because…

— John Piper

We've created a theology in the West of a God who is fundamentally self-centered. The imagery of God as distant, unapproachable, unreachable…

— William P. Young

“The danger lies in how your ‘surplus time’ is spent. If the ‘surplus time’ is spent for one’s own Soul, then it…

— Dada Bhagwan

The boys are so well-rounded, they're so self-disciplined, there is so much camaraderie

— Kevin Pietersen

Everything that you do or say that raises the self-esteem of another raises yours as well.

— Brian Tracy

I think self-confidence doesn’t come so much from knowing you’re great as just knowing who you are.

— Penelope Trunk

Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it.

— Ayn Rand

I feel uncomfortable if I'm not my self in any situation.

— David Baddiel

“When ownership of speech ends, there is the end of ‘us’ (relative self).”

— Dada Bhagwan

I live my life on self-belief and I live it partly on going with the flow.

— Melanie Brown

I do millions of self-tapes, and most of the time, I don't hear anything.

— Sophie Thatcher

There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy.

— Michel De Montaigne

Self-satisfaction and self-pity are both condemned. What are people permitted to feel about themselves?

— Mason Cooley

I have discovered that my freedom is within me, and nothing can destroy it.

— Janet Frame

Russia sees itself as a country that is self-sufficient.

— Sergei Ivanov

Faith, spirituality, and obedience produce a prepared and self-reliant people.

— Keith B. McMullin

If she and Sam ever had kids, they'd be gluten-intolerant out of self-defence.

— Maggie Stiefvater

Everyone self-Googles. And, I have, of course, the Google alert.

— Sarah Silverman

Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.

— Francois Fenelon