Self Quotes · Page 116

Laughter is the climax in the tragedy of seeing, hearing and smelling self-consciously.

— Wyndham Lewis

Truth is truth. If you hurt someone, you hurt self. If you help someone, you help self.

— Marlo Morgan

People with high self esteem are risk takers, but more importantly, they are achievers.

— Rick Pitino

Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.

— Anonymous

What we seek in love is finding someone with whom we feel safe to reveal our true self.

— Karen Salmansohn

I was really self conscious as a kid, I felt terrible - like a prisoner in my own body.

— Tess Holliday

I think it is in the nature of individuals and individual entities not to self-correct.

— Ray Dalio

Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves.

— Carol Lynn Pearson

The downside of aging is a slower metabolism and achy joints.The upside is a knowledge of self that prevents one from behaving…

— Dov Davidoff

Even the most disinterested love is, after all, but a kind of bargain, in which self-love always proposes to be the gainer…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“It’s ego – the false self – that exalts the guru and declares the teaching sacred, but nothing is exalted or sacred,…

— Jed McKenna

For the Christian, humility is absolutely indispensable. Without it there can be no self-knowledge, no repentance, no faith and no salvation.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

“Once I was free; there was no cage that could bind me, and I had yet to create my box of numbness…

— J.D. Stroube

To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity…

— Michel de Montaigne

It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn…

— Mark Twain

She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

In order for us as poor and oppressed people to become part of a society that is meaningful, the system under which…

— Ella Baker

Unlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, in the human species the weak not only survive but…

— Eric Hoffer

... we know that productivity suffers when uncertainty is high. But we've failed to realize the equally destructive effects of too little…

— Judith M Bardwick

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is. If you awaken…

— Alan Watts

Upon the whole, I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all, of those difficulties which have hitherto…

— George Berkeley

Most talk about 'super-geniuses' is nonsense. I have found that when 'stars' drop out, successors are usually at hand to fill their…

— Charles M. Schwab

I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Muqtada leads the only real mass movement in Iraq. It's a mass movement of the Shia, who are 60 percent of the…

— Patrick Cockburn

A "godly" person is one who ceases to be self-centered in order to become God-centered.

— Charles R. Swindoll

Baseball gives ... a growing boy self-poise and self-reliance. Baseball is a man maker.

— Albert Goodwill Spalding

The secret to peace-of-mind is to not identify with anything other than your true self.

— Robert Adams

You have to teach yourself to block emotions that do not benefit you in a positive way.

— Senora Roy

The call for a sincere gift of self is the fullest way to realize our personal freedom.

— Pope John Paul II

The good oxymoron, to define it by a self-illustration, must be a planned inadvertency.

— Wilson Follett

He that neither knows himself nor thinks he can learn of others is not fit for company.

— Benjamin Whichcote

I just want to lose weight and get back to being my usual self. There's too much flesh.

— Shweta Menon

The truth is how you say it, and to be 'one's self' is the most shocking custom of all.

— Djuna Barnes

Just be your authentic self because there's nothing sexier or more beautiful than that.

— Carol Leifer

Man does not understand nor accept immortality except on condition of self-remembrance.

— Victor Hugo

Running is the classical road to self-consciousness, self-awareness, and self-reliance.

— Noel Carroll

I would never try to fill John Lewis's shoes. I can only be myself - my authentic self.

— Jamaal Bowman

“The One in whom, there is no trace of ego, is a 'Gnani Purush' (the enlightened One).”

— Dada Bhagwan

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else.

— Elias Canetti

There's nothing like self-improvement to get your friends to like you for who you were.

— Robert Breault