Self Quotes · Page 25

There is in even the most selfish passion a large element of self-abnegation. It is startling to realize that what we call…

— Eric Hoffer

This self-congratulatory notion Americans have that their country is Number One is borne of ignorance and bad manners.

— Bryan Cranston

Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven't been before.

— Pat Summitt

Men are self-confident because they grow up identifying with super-heroes. Women have bad self-images because they grow up identifying with Barbie.

— Rita Rudner

My self-esteem had been crushed through years of childhood bullying and serious abuses, which would take me decades to overcome.

— Bryant H. McGill

If you die of cancer with only openness and softness in your heart, you will live and die integrating your self.

— John de Ruiter

I cannot go any further without mentioning my favourite biscuit of all time, now sadly, tragically, extinct. The oaty, crumbly, demerara notes…

— Nigel Slater

Well, think of what I’m doing to you right now. For me I’m the self, and you’re the object. For you, of…

— Haruki Murakami

If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration…

— Anonymous

Self-efficacy is the belief in one's capabilities to organize and execute the sources of action required to manage prospective situations.

— Albert Bandura

A successful man has the following qualities: A smile that doesn't die; patience; fearless mind; love; self- confidence; love for everybody.

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

To trap one's self-suffering is to risk being devoured from the inside.

— Frida Kahlo

So much of the world's suffering results from the sinful action or inaction of ourselves and others. For example, people look at…

— Lee Strobel

Most people have had that feeling of like, being obsessed with someone, and losing self control a bit, and that hopefully humanises…

— Mae Martin

There's something so powerful about being my own gorgeous, beautiful, individual, unique self.

— Alicia Keys

Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? ...We are all shape-shifters…

— Diane Ackerman

You are honest enough by nature to be able to see and judge your own self clearly - and that is a…

— Enid Blyton

I believe, in general, that even people that are self-pitying, you can feel for them.

— Mike White

Exercises cultivated self-reliance - the foundation of courage.

— Alexander Suvorov

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Don't worry about society's conditioning and the labels that are put on you by external forces. Hold onto your true self.

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

Trials should not surprise us, or cause us to doubt God's faithfulness. Rather, we should actually be glad for them. God sends…

— Edmund Clowney

There are not many beginnings but there is a single Beginning, prior to multitude. But if you were to say that the…

— Nicholas of Cusa

[Former chief executives] come away thinking that America needs a strong, functioning presidency to succeed, and they become very protective of that…

— Nancy Gibbs

If silence only conveys the Self, if all words and thoughts are illusions, why do we discuss it?

— Frederick Lenz