Self Quotes · Page 438

Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort, but…

— Spencer W. Kimball

Women of worth are those who want positive change for themselves, their families, community or society, which I think is important. For…

— Sonam Kapoor

By writing her self, woman will return to the body which has been more than confiscated from her, which has been turned…

— Helene Cixous

I'm a self motivated person, that's what got me to the point I'm at today. I don't take anybody lightly because this…

— Danny Garcia

The best way for parents to go about acquiring a mind-set of self-reflective parenting will be different for different individuals. Some people…

— Timothy Carey

Cancer taught me a plan for more purposeful living, and that in turn taught me how to train and to win more…

— Lance Armstrong

Israel has a couple of hundred nuclear weapons and also chemical and biological weapons. This stockpile is not only a threat in…

— Noam Chomsky

Each memory was brought to life before me and within me. I could not avoid them. Neither could I rationalize, explain away.…

— Richard Matheson

Writing a novel is an act of self-annihilation as much as self-discovery. You can kill whole appetites and flood whole depths while…

— Andrew O'Hagan

You feel so happy about that, that you feel loving towards these poor being who are suffering in their separateness, and their…

— Robert Thurman

We pledge our loyalty; we affirm our determination to be of good courage; we declare, sometimes even publicly, that come what may…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

The Australian form of self-respect, however rough-and-ready, heart-of-gold, come-and-take-pot-luck-with-us, and matily extrovert it is, essentially, genteel, ingrowing, self-pitying, vanilla-ice-cream hearted, its central…

— Hal Porter

One can study what exists and how consciousness functions; but one cannot analyze (or “prove”) existence as such, or consciousness as such.…

— Ayn Rand

Certain mystical philosophers have personified Destiny, and from this point of view each man's personal destiny is his archetype or "other self"--his…

— Charles le Gai Eaton

For it is probable that when people talk aloud, the selves (of which there may be more than two thousand) are conscious…

— Virginia Woolf

I really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, its self-consciousness. And if you have one…

— Anonymous

I got very self-conscious about the way I look. So I, especially with young people coming into the industry and young actors,…

— June Diane Raphael

“The Vitarags (attachment-free enlightened one’s) say, ‘Make whatever intents that are suitable to you. If you get sensual intents towards Me, then…

— Dada Bhagwan

Once the threshold is crossed when there is a self-sustaining level of life in space, then life's long-range future will be secure…

— Martin Rees

In time, [a Martian] colony would grow to the point of being self- sustaining. When this stage was reached, humanity would have…

— Paul Davies

A fight is going on inside me," said an old man to his son. "It is a terrible fight between two wolves.…

— Wendy Mass

All I'm arguing for really is that we should have a conversation where the best ideas really thrive, where there's no taboo…

— Sam Harris

Even painfully shy and awkward people are not painfully shy or awkward when they are alone. The way to access this natural,…

— Augusten Burroughs

When one becomes for an instant one's former self, that is to say different from what one has been for some time…

— Marcel Proust

Over time we are able to undermine habitual modes of thinking formed by our self-made self in early childhood, which tries to…

— Thomas Keating

Our prayer must not be self-centered. It must arise not only because we feel our own need as a burden we must…

— John Calvin

The steadily inward look leads us all to death, nations as well as persons, and is equally infantile in them all. Perhaps…

— Margery Wilson

We can hardly say that the Pharisees had an accurate ‘knowledge’ of man when they pointed to the sins (the real sins)…

— G. C. Berkouwer

The Democrats are as concerned about raising our kids and making sure that the values of empathy and hard work and discipline…

— Barack Obama

All men are, or ought to be free, possessing unalienable rights, and the high and noble qualifications of the laws of nature…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

“What state ‘we’ (the Gnani Purush and the manifest Lord within him) must have seen? ‘We’ have seen the ownership of the…

— Dada Bhagwan

a mother's death also means the loss of the consistent, supportive family system that once supplied her with a secure home base,…

— Hope Edelman

As for myself and for the Secretary of State and others involved, including those in the Legislature, we stand ready to do…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

My father could be very distancing. My clearest memory is of him squatting, watering plants for hours and hours at a time,…

— John Malkovich

That which rises and sinks is made up of what it rises from. The finality of the universe is the God Arunachala.…

— Ramana Maharshi

The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart,…

— Joseph Butler

I shall pray God to send charity into this hideous world, and sympathy for the weak, and love for the unhappy and…

— John Wyndham

Such self-transformation is the most difficult and dangerous challenge to the imagination, and it is the most rewarding. Meeting it is only…

— Robert Grudin

I suppose it's fair to say that I am interested in the invention of self or selves. We're all born into certain…

— Sarah Jones

“Your self-image tells about what you think about yourself and how you appear to yourself in your own consciousness. Self-image is the…

— Israelmore Ayivor