Self Quotes · Page 516

Psychologists and economists love to talk about the notion of two selves: present self and future self. It's a nice way to…

— Daniel Goldstein

“I had lost confidence and a sense of self. Who am I? Am I a person who cowers in fear at the…

— Susannah Cahalan

Some think that Russia should become a kind of a U.S. province, where it should supply natural resources to the United States…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Love changes us and helps us move forward in life. It often helps us become the people we've always wanted to be…

— Adam Wilde

There's often rarely any dialogue in a sex scene. With your fellow actor, it's good to talk about what the unspoken dialogue…

— Geoffrey Rush

I, who have been so many men in vain, want to be one man, myself alone. From out of a whirlwind the…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Tell me I didn't imagine it, Leo. Tell me that even though our bodies were in seperate states, our star selves shared…

— Jerry Spinelli

LOGOMACHY, n. A war in which the weapons are words and the wounds punctures in the swim-bladder of self-esteem - a kind…

— Ambrose Bierce

That is part of why we must keep talking about Fannie Lou Hamer and about our history as a party and as…

— Leah D. Daughtry

Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning, that is to say, whose…

— Anonymous

The web of hypocrisy of today hangs on the frontiers of two domains, between which our time swings back and forth, attaching…

— Max Stirner

Back in the autumn I had awakened to a growing darkness and cacophony, as if something in the depths were crying out.…

— Sue Monk Kidd

It's all about self-expression; you know, if you feel like a troll then you should look like a troll. It doesn't matter…

— James St. James

To become conscious of God, to become God's consciousness, to become God, to be God and to be beyond God, God being…

— Frederick Lenz

“It has been said that in every being there is another being and this being is the true self. Not a double.…

— Philip Davison

In addition to world conflicts, the most challenging problem we face today is hunger, deprivation and social injustice. Because we're ruled by…

— Satish Kumar

Having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our King and Country, a voyage…

— William Bradford

“But do you imagine there’s a certain type of person in the world who conforms to the idea of a ‘bad person'?…

— Natsume Sōseki

I have never understood why they tried to start the revolution by taking over the universities. It should have been self-evident that…

— Muriel Beadle

European democracy was originally imbued with a sense of Christian responsibility and self-discipline, but these spiritual principles have been gradually losing their…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Focus your mind on 'I Am', which is pure and simple being. You are Here and Now only. Contemplate what it is…

— Mooji

“Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation. To be humble is not to make comparisons.…

— Dag Hammarskjöld

You become self-conscious and you begin to criticize yourself so much and watch yourself, and I don't want to ever do that.…

— Jackee Harry

Consider developing your whole self with the same raw focus and intensity that you develop a particular skill set. Get focused. Go…

— Anthony Holden

Actors, who should pride themselves on their singularity, are forever trying to be someone else. It isn’t necessary for you, the actor,…

— Michael Shurtleff

Positive thinking is no longer for drifters, dreamers and the perpetually naive. People who think positively see more opportunities, perform better, take…

— Herman Van Rompuy

I suspect it's because Truman Democrats have been replaced by Gruber Democrats - self-styled elitists who feed lavishly at the public trough…

— Jack Kelly

But the body fails us and the mirror knows, and we no longer insist that the gray hush be carried off its…

— William H. Gass

Man is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation which…

— Soren Kierkegaard

On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay,…

— Hu Shih

I become more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days. It…

— Mahatma Gandhi

We also recommit to supporting tribal self-determination, security, and prosperity for all Native Americans. While we cannot erase the scourges or broken…

— Barack Obama

Lifestyles are routined practices, the routines incorporated into habits of dress, eating, modes of acting and favoured milieux for encountering others; but…

— Anthony Giddens

If a man considers that he is born, he cannot avoid the fear of death. Let him find out if he has…

— Ramana Maharshi

True happiness cannot be found in things that change and pass away. Pleasure and pain alternate inexorably. Happiness comes from the Self…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Perfect health, sincerity, honesty, straightforwardness, courage, disinterestedness, unselfishness, patience, endurance, perseverance, peace, calm, self control are all things that are taught infinitely…

— Sri Aurobindo

“To become what one is, one must not have the faintest notion of what one is... The whole surface of consciousness -…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

[Some] people really expect the passion of love to fill and gratify every need of life, whereas nature only intended that it…

— Willa Cather

There are times in my life when I let myself get consumed with jealously for someone else's life, their body, their wardrobe,…

— Demi Lovato

Our doubts about ourselves cannot be banished except by working at that which is the one and only thing we know we…

— Eric Hoffer