Self Quotes · Page 6

I am not going to make any commitments to the teachers union to do anything until they do something that's other than…

— Chris Christie

Can you dissolve your ego? Can you abandon the idea of self and other? Can you relinquish the notions of male and…

— Laozi

Unless a man gives himself entirely to the Cross, in a spirit of humility and self-abasement; unless he casts himself down to…

— Mark the Evangelist

I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear…

— Anonymous

You know, whenever women make imaginary female kingdoms in literature, they are always very permissive, to use the jargon word, and easy…

— Doris Lessing

If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will.

— Stephen Covey

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom?…

— Max Stirner

[Religion] attacks us in our deepest integrity - the core of our self-respect. Religion says that we would not know right from…

— Christopher Hitchens

To be at peace with self, to find company and nourishment in self-this would be the test of the free and productive…

— Marya Mannes

When forced to survive in an apocalyptic world, there are some characters that embrace their higher selves with some emerging as natural…

— Laurie Holden

Change your thoughts, change your life. —LAO TZU When I was fighting depression, I remember hearing this expression and not understanding it…

— Demi Lovato

We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Jealousy is the result of one's lack of self-confidence, self-worth, and self-acceptance.

— Sasha Azevedo

If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of technology to distract us from our own contact with each other, then somehow the original…

— Jaron Lanier

Consciousness," according to current scientific thought, was something the higher mammals had evolved in order to help them reproduce, much the way…

— Robert Charles Wilson

Your ego is your embodiment and your self is your potentiality and that's what you listen to when you listen for the…

— Joseph Campbell

Through learning we grow, becoming more than we were before, and in that sense learning is unselfish, because it results in the…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

[We need to ] select immigrants based on their likelihood of success in U.S. society and their ability to be financially self-…

— Donald Trump

The New England spirit does not seek solutions in a crowd; raw light and solitariness are less dreaded than welcomed as enhancers…

— John Updike

If you have to learn it from a self-help book, you may be beyond help.

— Wes Smith

My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived.

— Mason Cooley

The whole of life is a journey toward youthful old age, toward self-contemplation, love, gaiety, and, in a fundamental sense, the most…

— Ashley Montagu

When I'm feeling proud of myself, I should remember to ask myself why I think I am of any value at all.…

— John S. Hall

When you're younger, you're more selfish, because there's so much self-exploration, you're in your own mind.

— Miley Cyrus

Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and…

— Richard Ford