Self Quotes · Page 731

Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.

— Woodrow Wilson

The goal of the martial arts is not for the destruction of an opponent, but rather for self-growth and self-perfection. The practice…

— Dan Inosanto

People vastly overestimate the ability of central planners to improve on the independent action of diverse individuals. What I've learned watching regulators…

— John Stossel

I think those moments in Patti's [Smith] bedroom really helped the film [Dream of Life] out, and those moments existed because of…

— Steven Sebring

Government is only a necessary evil, like other go-carts and crutches. Our need of it shows exactly how far we are still…

— Wendell Phillips

Few things infuse a member of Congress with more courage than self-imposed term limits or an imminent retirement. The issues they choose…

— Tom Coburn

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.

— Samuel Smiles

The longest exercise of the mind is to know who you are

— Anonymous

All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for rubbish.

— Vivienne Westwood

We talked about how easy it was to make the mistake of anthropomorphizing animals, and projecting our own feelings and perceptions on…

— Douglas Adams

Be yourself. That's it. I got about 45 [billionaires] . They are all different, all unique, and they are all self-made.

— Tony Robbins

“To not do egoism in that which is mandatory is known as Purusharth (real spiritual effort to progress as the Self).”

— Dada Bhagwan

Our Founding Fathers well understood that concentrated power is the enemy of liberty and the rights of man. They knew that the…

— Ronald Reagan

A true conception of the relation of the sexes will not admit of conqueror and conquered; it knows of but one great…

— Emma Goldman

Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.

— Barbara Sher

Personality of reincarnating as Paulo was that of his deceased sister, Emilia. She made several suicidal attempts. Finally she took cyanide and…

— Ian Stevenson

I am somebody who usually writes out the rough draft in longhand. Then I type it into the computer, and that is…

— Barack Obama

And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue…

— Alison Bechdel

I have no home but me.

— Anne Truitt

In leaving Hollywood and coming to New York, I feel I can be more myself. After all, if I can't be myself,…

— Marilyn Monroe

The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don't have that, we never grow, we never learn…

— Anonymous

Depending on the year or the therapist he was seeing, he'd learned to ascribe just about every facet of his character as…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I became depressed and I cut my self with scissors and stuff.

— Kelly Holmes

Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger…

— Daniel Kahneman

In short, I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship…

— Henry David Thoreau