Self Quotes · Page 104

Good manners reflect something from inside-an innate sense of consideration for others and respect for self.

— Emily Post

One of the very best of all earthly possessions is self-possession.

— George D. Prentice

Be mindful of your self-talk. It's a conversation with the universe.

— David James

To a large degree, those early lean days were self-imposed.

— Rod Taylor

Lost in the barrage of images and self-serving analysis are the economic and social causes of the conflict.

— Michel Chossudovsky

A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.

— Virginia Woolf

In that power of self-control lies the seed of eternal freedom.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge.

— Jean Paul

Self-criticism, like self-administered brain surgery, is perhaps not a good idea. Can the 'self' see the 'self' with any objectivity?

— Joyce Carol Oates

Profound, bottomless self-doubt - it has no value - what's the point? In a way, it takes up as much time as…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

The Self is infinite. The Self is eternal. You are that Self. Beyond words, thoughts, ideas, forms and belief systems. There is…

— Frederick Lenz

Our sense of self-worth is the single most important determinant of the health, abundance, and joy we allow into our lives.

— Dan Millman

There's no cure for getting depressed. There's no cure for self-loathing or periods of it. But figure out enough about it so…

— Conan O'Brien

Increasingly we're seeing these ultra-partisan sites getting larger and larger readerships because people are self-selecting themselves into communities.

— Edward Snowden

“There is strife (trouble) the moment one enters the worldly life and bliss the moment one enters the Self [the Soul].”

— Dada Bhagwan

The mind self-edits. The mind airbrushes. It's a different thing to be inside a body than outside. From outside, you can look,…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Of government, at least in democratic states, it may be said briefly that it is an agency engaged wholesale, and as a…

— H. L. Mencken

He who stands on tiptoe is not steady. He who strides cannot maintain the pace. He who makes a show is not…

— Laozi

Nature never makes excellent things, for mean or no uses: and it is hardly to be conceived, that our infinitely wise Creator,…

— John Locke

Under whatever name or form we worship It, It leads us on to knowledge of the nameless, formless Absolute. Yet, to see…

— Ramana Maharshi

We have a duty to look after each other. If we lose control of our government, then we lose our ability to…

— Doris "Granny D" Haddock

I enjoy twitter accounts that are meticulously edited just as much as I enjoy twitter accounts that aren't edited at all, but…

— Mira Gonzalez

It is the part of an uneducated person to blame others where he himself fares ill; to blame himself is the part…

— Epictetus

The anonymity of the internet has been completely abandoned - everything's so tied to your identity and sense of self now. It's…

— Porter Robinson

The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest.

— Georges Bataille

The 3Ss of Winning in business are speed, simplicity, and self-confidence.

— Jack Welch

“A man will reveal his true self, or so it seems, on the tennis court.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

Careerism: the self-centered philosophy of governing to win the next election above all else.

— Tom Coburn

There is no room on the golf course for anger or self-pity.

— Greg Norman

“Don't become a stranger for me, for in doing so, you'll make me a stranger to my own self.”

— Shahid Hussain Raja

I have a rigid self-accountability. You have to work hard.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Still though, I think if you're not self-obsessed, you're probably boring.

— Dave Eggers

“He is free from self- display, and therefore he shines;”

— Lao Tzu

I see the universe as naturally and infinitely self-correcting.

— Marianne Williamson

“Unique is what I am,Special is who I am,Different is how I am ..As Simple As That!Believe in your self!”

— Nour El Hamwi

Of all the hurdles you will need to face in this life time the hardest will be your self imposed limitations

— Jan Hellriegel

“Impatience is nothing more than a form of self-punishment”

— Ela Crain

If rejection destroys your self-esteem, you're letting others hold you as an emotional hostage.

— Brian Tracy

Nothing is so tiresome to one's self, as well as so odious to others, as disguise and affectation.

— Benjamin Franklin

Self-consciousness is the curse of the city and all that sophistication implies.

— Annie Dillard