Self Quotes · Page 97

To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self.

— Hamilton Wright Mabie

That's something that I have to work on: Self-confidence and loving myself.

— Marsai Martin

If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.

— Leon Kass

One is least sure of one's self, sometimes, when one is most positive.

— Conrad Aiken

Everything dictated silence and self-control but I couldn't restrain myself and spoke my mind.

— Philip Roth

The sooner we can separate salvageable skeptics from self-righteous absolutists, the sooner we can move along.

— Sheri S. Tepper

I have always lived as my truest self somewhere on the boundary between masculine and feminine.

— Norah Vincent

“We all have to start somewhere if us want to do better, an d out of self is what us have to…

— Alice Walker

By regarding ourselves with kindness, we begin to dissolve the identity of an isolated, deficient self. This creates the grounds for including…

— Tara Brach

But it also came at a significant cost for human rights, and today's restricted freedom of expression, self-censorship and stunted multiparty democracy.

— Phil Robertson

Sam’s probably out there somewhere being his usual heroic self,” Caine said. “I can’t let that boy save the world all alone.…

— Michael Grant

Government is only a necessary evil, like other go-carts and crutches. Our need of it shows exactly how far we are still…

— Wendell Phillips

“When you understand that the one whom you have presumed to be the Knower (Gnata) is actually an object to be known…

— Dada Bhagwan

A liberated woman is one who feels confident in herself, and is happy in what she is doing. She is a person…

— Betty Ford

A serf-supporting and self-respecting democracy can plead no justification for the existence of child labor, no economic reason for chiseling workers' wages…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

We try to invest in companies that are putting together environmental programs and working to improve their overall social and environmental self.

— Bob Walker

The higher our self-esteem, the stronger the drive to express ourselves, reflecting the sense of richness within. The lower our self-esteem, the…

— Nathaniel Branden

No wonder we cannot appreciate the really central Kafka joke: that the horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a…

— David Foster Wallace

“I seek to speak to you, in some way, as your own self. Who can tell what this may mean? I myself…

— Thomas Merton

Now, learning how to make a movie is something you can figure out in about an afternoon. The physics of it, the…

— Tom Hanks

…Even the idea of a city never entered his mind. It was as if he had walked under the millimeter of haze…

— Michael Ondaatje

Instead of looking outside of ourselves and counting potential enemies, fasting summons us to turn our glance inward, and to take the…

— Tariq Ramadan

Our Creating Factor and Unique Accidental one left its print on a soil alien tot him, but on which human kind will…

— Sorin Cerin

Our business is to wake up. We have to find ways in which to detect the whole of reality in the one…

— Aldous Huxley

Self-portraits are a way of revealing something about oneself.

— Eric Kandel

“Between you and you, let there be no secrets. ~T.F. Hodge”

— T.F. Hodge

“Ballot papers do not define leaders. Leadership is defined by conviction, vision, passion and inspiration.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

Striving for excellence is a positive quality. Striving for perfection is self-defeating.

— Melody Beattie

Anyone full of self claims just themselves show Christ and empty yourself.

— Denise Clark

Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable.

— M. Scott Peck

Where is your Self to be found? Always in the deepest enchantment that you have experienced.

— Hugo von Hofmannsthal

More endearingly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self control and pride.

— Dan Gable

It is hard to imagine Thomas Kinkade as anything less than supremely self-assured.

— Susan Orlean

Sancho Panza by name is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Most of the time, writing is a lot of fun, and not a small amount of self-medication.

— Roxane Gay

We dream of an India that is self-sufficient in producing defence equipment using the latest technology.

— Narendra Modi

Nothing is impossible, even the word its self say 'I'm possible

— Bad Nova Morvado

I'm not the most naturally confident person you'll ever meet. It took me a while to find my love for self.

— Big E

“I tell you I can't be bothered with things like that. I've got a soul above buttons.”

— George Orwell

To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.

— Minna Antrim