Pride is over-estimation of oneself by reason of self-love.

The point of flight. To get rid of oneself. That was reason enough to fly.

— Colum McCann

“Well how many troubles should equal a legitimate reason for self-mutilation? Ten? Twenty? One hundred? And how monumental must these troubles be? There’s probably…

— Caroline Kettlewell

“There is a reason why self-help is called self-help.”

— Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma

“I find it hard to talk about myself. I'm always tripped up by the eternal who am I? paradox. Sure, no one knows as…

— Haruki Murakami

“Any reason could be made for self-justification.”

— Toba Beta

The only real reason for self-referencing is the fun factor. It's fun for the writer, getting little peeks at what old characters might be…

— Charles de Lint

... in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself.

— Leo Tolstoy

Rare indeed, is the relationship in which the other is not cultivated for what one can get for oneself.

— Anthony de Mello

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The first duty of a Christian, of a disciple and follower of Jesus Christ, is to deny himself. To deny oneself means to give…

— Innocent of Alaska

When God put everybody here, I don't think that he had a master plan of a pecking order. That's not what you see in…

— Corey Feldman

“Don't pretend to be what you're not, instead, pretend to what you want to be, it is not pretence, it is a journey to…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. Where one has been saved…

— Charles Caleb Colton

A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which…

— Francois Arago

The method of magnitude estimation provided a direct measure of sensation.

— Stanley Smith Stevens