Self Quotes · Page 115

I have realized that my real self is a greater entity than any possible post or title.

— Anwar Sadat

I take the love of God and self-denial to be the sum of all saving grace and religion.

— Richard Baxter

I keep calling it the I-thought. It's a thought. There is no I. This gives you a clue.

— Robert Adams

Living up to others perception of you, is the worst perception of life you could have.

— Edward Shaylitsa

Any systems approaching perfect self-control also approaches perfect self-frustration.

— Alan Watts

The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.

— Ian Hacking

Our connection with our intuitive self is ever present and always a part of ourselves.

— James Van Praagh

Hollywood can be a draining industry. For all the glitz and glory and wonderful parts of our business, it takes it's toll…

— Amber Heard

Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them…

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Authority confined in you does not make you a leader. It is the authority created by you that makes you influence people…

— Israelmore Ayivor

All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they're set, and where they're…

— Lucretius

To the Maker the archetype, the self-sustainer, human interaction is usually a waste of the most precious thing in his vital existance:…

— Anonymous

“If I can’t quite figure out what an ego is, all I have to do is look for the thing that’s killing…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Scientists are human-they're as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting…

— Cyril Ponnamperuma

The feeling that "I am enough" does not mean that I have nothing to learn, nothing further to achieve, and nowhere to…

— Nathaniel Branden

You are not a human being. You are not your body, you are not your mind, and you are not your soul.…

— Neale Donald Walsch

You know, I don't talk about the characters that I play. Years ago, I was a little timid about it and I…

— Christoph Waltz

Because it's so easy to medicate our need for self-worth by pandering to win followers, 'likes' and view counts, social media have…

— Neil Strauss

Ferris: Are you going to be as impractical as that? Rearden: The evaluation of an action as practical, Dr. Ferris, depends on…

— Ayn Rand

One is happy as a result of one's own efforts, once one knows of the necessary ingredients of happiness-simple tastes, a certain…

— George Sand

One of the great natural phenomena is the way in which a tube of toothpaste suddenly empties itself when it hears that…

— Robert Benchley

Remove the heavy clothing of your self-definition. You are not woman, you are not American, you are not son, you are not…

— Jan Frazier

Israel has the right to shell Palestinian hospitals and schools out of self defense...

— Elizabeth Warren

I loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do.

— Francis Bacon

When you get to know your self, you get to know everyone and everything on the planet.

— Rakim

God Himself begins to live in me not only as my Creator but as my other and true self.

— Thomas Merton

The boys are so well-rounded, they're so self-disciplined, there is so much camaraderie

— Kevin Pietersen

Success comes when you have the trust on self, passion to transcend, and courage to do.

— Amit Ray

When we really start to take a look at who we think we are, we become very grace prone.

— Adyashanti

I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred.

— Frank Langella

Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.

— John Berger

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

— Jane Austen

I give the niggaz what they came to see, a reflection of one self where they aim to be.

— T.I

Only by entering new and unfamiliar worlds can a person change society as well as self.

— Bill Courtney

A skillful man reads his dreams for self-knowledge, yet not the details but the quality

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think I have learned that the best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else.

— Booker T. Washington

Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If you move as a being in every experience of your self, your being replaces your self.

— John de Ruiter