Self Quotes · Page 767

I love working with Liev [Schreiber]. I've known him for a long time. I just think he is a master. Few actors…

— Peter Jacobson

People need to know that they have all the tools within themselves. Self-awareness, which means awareness of their body, awareness of their…

— Deepak Chopra

Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.

— George Eliot

We can hardly say that the Pharisees had an accurate ‘knowledge’ of man when they pointed to the sins (the real sins)…

— G. C. Berkouwer

There's nothing wrong with being proud of America, believing that America can do great things. America can do great things, it has…

— Peter Beinart

'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

— J. K. Rowling

To divest one's self of some prejudices would be like taking off the skin to feel the better.

— Sir Fulke Greville

With the exception of very few who have gained higher spiritual tendencies in prior lives, Self-realization is not possible for anyone without…

— Mata Amritanandamayi

You get typecast. You have to find a niche in this business. So, the roles that I got cast in were the…

— Patricia Mauceri

There is no employment in the world so laborious as that of making to one's self a great name; life ends before…

— Jean de la Bruyere

The impression somehow prevails that the true believer, particularly the religious individual, is a humble person. The truth is that the surrendering…

— Eric Hoffer

Sacrifice. Work. Self-discipline. I teach these things, and my boys don't forget them when they leave.

— Bear Bryant

“What is the direct cause of liberation? Dwelling in the Self (Swaramanata). The entire world dwells in the non-Self (par-ramanata).”

— Dada Bhagwan

For us to go to Italy and to penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery

— D. H. Lawrence

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.

— John Updike

Appearance is the most public part of the self. It is our sacrament, the visible self that the world assumes to be…

— Nancy Etcoff

Self-complacency is the companion of ignorance.

— Solomon Schechter

“Everybody tries to protect this vulnerable two three four five six seven eight year old inside, and to acquire skills and aptitudes…

— Ted Hughes

True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There's no separation between self and other,…

— Anonymous

Start listening to what you say. Are your comments and ideas negative? You aren't going become positive if you always say negative…

— James Arthur

Many of us harbor hidden low self-esteem. We deem everything and everyone more important that ourselves and think that meeting their needs…

— T. D. Jakes

We love best those who are, or act for us, a self we do not wish to be or act out.

— Anais Nin

I happen to be immature, undisciplined, and self-centered, pretty much a little boy in a man's body, although I'd appreciate it if…

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

It is very difficult to understand why in this country [India] so much difference is made between men and women, whereas the…

— Swami Vivekananda

I can't think of anybody...who knows the sum and substance of what I know and feel and cry about in my secret…

— Jack Kerouac