They say that men who have seen the world, thereby become…

The ease of his manner freed me from painful restraint; the friendly frankness, as correct as cordial, with which he treated me, drew me…

— Charlotte Bronte

“Maybe, you never know. I’ve always been quite the self-saboteur.”

— Hank Moody

I'm actually quite self-sufficient, so it might look as if there isn't room for anyone in my life. That isn't entirely the case.

— Graham Norton

Well, I'm quite a self-deprecating person.

— PJ Harvey

I find still photographs make me quite self-conscious,

— Aidan Gillen

There's no room for demons when you're self-possessed.

— Carrie Fisher

“As self-possessed as he is, when he’s tired from working too hard, his whole demeanor softens with vulnerability… which makes me want to tuck…

— Nina Lane

“If you are a self-possessed man with a healthy sense of detachment from your bank account and someone writes you a cheque for tens…

— Michael Lewis

Jim Stavridis is the former NATO commander who is sometimes on people's lists, also very plausible, self-possessed, someone with sobriety.

— David Brooks

Mary Ocher gives me the chills, she frightens me with her feral soul. Her sound is of a true outsider artist, immaculately self possessed.…

— Karen O

“It had to be found, the pristine source in one’s own self, it had to be possessed”

— Anonymous

Carey Mulligan is completely self-possessed. She knows what she's doing, and again, quite like the big-hitters I was talking about, my job was just…

— Olivia Williams

“How often is it the case that, when impossibilities have come to pass and dreams have condensed their misty substance into tangible realities, we…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“The truly self-possessed, however, are free from the whims of fate and chance. Calmly, they affect their will, and with strength of character and…

— James Allen

“‎"The men whom I have seen succeed best in life have always been cheerful and hopeful men, who went about their business with a…

— Charles Kingsley