Self Quotes · Page 116

Hiddenness is the place of purification. In hiddenness we find our true selves.

— Henri Nouwen

Baseball gives ... a growing boy self-poise and self-reliance. Baseball is a man maker.

— Albert Goodwill Spalding

To get at the truth of your calling, you have to crack open that false self and see what lies within.

— Justine Musk

Your ego is just an idea implanted in your mind. It is poisonous. Your ego keeps driving you madder and madder.

— Rajneesh

The principle of self defense is an American tradition that began at Lexington and Concord.

— Robert F. Williams

You must admit you have self-control before you can use it.

— Carrie Latet

We learned not to waste ammo even on warriors except in self-protection

— Robert A. Heinlein

Never underestimate the power of self-absorption, including your parents' self-absorption.

— Rita Mae Brown

I will not sulk about having no boyfriend, but develop inner poise and authority and sense of self as woman of substance,…

— Helen Fielding

The moving toward one's inner self is a long pilgrimage for a painter. It offers many temporary successes and high points, but…

— Ben Shahn

True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.

— Tryon Edwards

To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things…

— Dogen

If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the…

— Michel de Montaigne

“Samkit (awareness of ‘I am pure Soul’) is a vision. The moment one’s vision turns (from ‘I am Chandubhai’ to ‘I am…

— Dada Bhagwan

Fastidiousness is only another word for egotism; and all men who know not where to look for truth save in the narrow…

— James Russell Lowell

I don't like to have anybody tell me to be in a place at certain times. That's kind of the advantage of…

— Zach Galifianakis

For example, the supporters of tariffs treat it as self-evident that the creation of jobs is a desirable end, in and of…

— Milton Friedman

A Creator is vision-focused and passion-motivated. To really live into your Creator self, you are called to do the inner work necessary…

— David Emerald Womeldorff

If my sense of security lies in my reputation or in the things I have, my life will be in a constant…

— Stephen Covey

I may say that B-love, in a profound but testable sense, creates the partner. It gives him a self-image, it gives him…

— Abraham Maslow

But our ways of learning about the world are strongly influenced by the social preconceptions and biased modes of thinking that each…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Honest and outspoken, honorable and uncompromising, Jubal A. Early epitomized much that was the Southern Confederacy. His self-reliance, courage, sagacity, and devotion…

— James I. Robertson, Jr

When you understand that everything happening in the world mirrors something that's happening in yourself, then you can work on the self…

— Charles Eisenstein

God did not create a human family made up of segregated, dissociated, mutually independent members. No; he would have them all united…

— Pope Pius XII

Innocence is not pure so much as pleased, Always expectant, bright-eyed, self-enclosed

— May Sarton

Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I've been the best in the world, and I believe my self worth, it's more important to me than my net worth.

— Henry Cejudo

Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.

— Jose Bergamin

Groveling for connection from someone who compares you to Hitler is not good for a person's self-esteem.

— Amy Dickinson

I wish I could show you, When you are lonely or in darkness, The astonishing light of your own being. ~Hafiz

— Hafiz

The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood.

— Philip Yancey

The more we oblige, the more we self-censor, the more we appease, the bolder the enemy gets.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I think exercise is really important, not just for your physical self, for your body, but for your head.

— Jill Biden

I give the niggaz what they came to see, a reflection of one self where they aim to be.

— T.I

“No-one loves another More than he loves whatever another within may have That is part of one's self”

— Fernando Pessoa

Never mishandle hope or self-confidence - those are elements of life, not just a game.

— John Kessel

Stan Ulam was lazy, ... He talked too much ... He was self-centered ... . He had an overpowering personality.

— Gian-Carlo Rota

Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves.

— Alain de Botton

I'm ready to take on different selves and experiment and see what happens.

— Angel Olsen

“Me: am i allowed 2 be good and evil at the same time? Higher self: look around, bb. that's all there is.”

— Melissa Broder