Self Quotes · Page 109

Often our bad moments are self-propelled ... And the drama is almost exclusively within our heads and hearts.

— Katharine Tynan

What motivates me has changed over time. My younger self was driven by the desire to be extremely successful.

— Julie Sweet

What an odd, ruminating, noisy, self-interrupting conversation we conduct with ourselves from birth to death.

— Diane Ackerman

What kind of people are these with such low self-esteem that they need a war to feel better about themselves?

— Bill Hicks

A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It's proper that people have friends, friendships without self-interest. Without friends, life is too lonely.

— Pramoedya Ananta Toer

I couldn't help feeling people thought I was a moron, and my self-imposed insecurity constantly bedeviled me.

— Nicholas Brendon

I knew that was really the only purpose of life: to be our self, live our truth, and be the love that…

— Anita Moorjani

The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.

— Albert Einstein

To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything.

— Joan Didion

Self-satisfaction is the state of mind of those who have the happy conviction that they are not as other men.

— Margery Allingham

Self-control is only courage under another form. It may also be regarded as the primary essence of character.

— Samuel Smiles

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

— Oscar Wilde

The stretch of the limousine usually is inversely proportional to the self esteem of the person riding in it.

— Denis Waitley

The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history.

— John F. Kennedy

If I'm gonna lose, it's gonna be my fault - no excuses but my self if I didn't win, and it worked…

— Mike Perry

I don't want to be skinny. I'm constantly in a state of self-improvement, but I don't beat myself up over it.

— Mindy Kaling

I have very little experience of self-government. In fact, I am one of the most governed people in the world.

— Prince Philip

In that undifferentiated reality of the Self there is eternal bliss. All the phantoms of existence fade away.

— Frederick Lenz

In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social.

— James Mark Baldwin

Nothing puts the dignity in personal dignity (or the freedom in personal freedom) like the self in self-rule.

— John Longenecker

As I look back over my life, I've been an active person - obviously I was self-absorbed for a period of time.

— George W. Bush

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to…

— William Shakespeare

The more flexible we become in our thinking and being, the more we open ourselves to self-awareness & growth.

— James Van Praagh

Remove the Ego and Avidya (Ignorance) is gone. Look for it, the ego vanishes and the real Self alone remains.

— Ramana Maharshi

Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.

— Anonymous

It's not logical, self-realization. If it was, everybody would be self-realized because everybody is logical.

— Frederick Lenz

Love is not about property, diamonds and gifts. It is about sharing your very self with the world around you.

— Pablo Neruda

The life of a winner is the result of an unswerving commitment to a never-ending process of self-completion .

— Terry Bradshaw

A Mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually VACCINATES her daughter against low self-esteem.

— Naomi Wolf

Pain and suffering are two completely difference experiences. Pain is unavoidable. Suffering is self-created.

— Noah Levine

We talk about self-expression but need to pause and remember that self-expression requires a self to express.

— Julia Cameron

The souls now incarnating are power souls. It is a dark age. To incarnate now one needs psychic self-defense.

— Frederick Lenz

“The harsh reality is that my flesh must die not so much because of what it does, but because of what it…

— Kelly Minter

People always want to ask me about my drug problem - I never had a drug problem; I had a self-esteem problem!

— Gloria Gaynor

Bill Evans described his tunes as vehicles; they are vehicles for self-expression, or expression of the self.

— Kenny Werner

To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.

— Dogen

Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.

— Barry Bonds

In old days men studied for the sake of self-improvement; nowadays men study in order to impress other people.

— Confucius

“I can confidently state that the greatest rescues in my life have occurred when I’ve been saved from myself.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough