Self Quotes · Page 121

False humility is thinly veiled ego disguised as self confidence.

— Dov Davidoff

To me, growing into spiritual maturity is becoming less self-conscious and more God-conscious.

— Mark Batterson

Well, the real Eric Bogosian is pretty self-conscious of himself.

— Eric Bogosian

It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.

— Charles Eames

“It is not so much that we have a self, it's that we do self-ing.”

— Rick Hansen

Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides.

— Ruth Hubbard

As for me, then, I love life and cultivate it just as God has been pleased to grant it to us.

— Michel de Montaigne

True enlightenment is nothing but the nature of one's own self being fully realized.

— Dalai Lama

I was in a band in high school and college and I always had a love for music, but I didn't go…

— Tim Heidecker

An inflated sense of self-importance? Absolutely, but I think it comes from Doctor Strange need to control things and that's what happens…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

“Maura made something with butter and Calla made something with bacon and Blue steamed broccoli in self defense.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“The swabhaav bhaav (inherent state) of the Self is itself liberation (moksha), and its vishesh bhaav (extra intent of 'I am Chandubhai')…

— Dada Bhagwan

Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon,…

— Harper Lee

It's really hard to be a servant leader because we come into this world as a baby in a self-survival mode. Life…

— Ken Blanchard

Self-deprecation runs right through queer culture. It was seen as a badge of honor. I started to feel like perhaps it was…

— Hannah Gadsby

What is the popular image of rock star? A rail-thin, overly-paid, narcissistic, average-talented individual who self-implodes in front of everybody, eternally having…

— Ian Astbury

Everyone wants dignity. And today the mission of HOPE is ‘silver rights,’or making the free enterprise system work for the least of…

— John Hope Bryant

The world cannot hold onto you, for the world is not sentient. The world doesn't have a mind nor does it have…

— Mooji

I wrote short stories for seven years and used to mail them out. You couldn't send them by e-mail. I called them…

— Jess Walter

I have read all of Daniel Aaron's books, and admired them, but in The Americanist I believe he has composed an intellectual…

— Harold Bloom

If you start thinking about who's going to read it [you're writing], or what grade will you get, or is it going…

— Sandra Cisneros

We're all self-destructive when we're young. We all rebel. If we don't, there's something wrong. But when a Chicano kid's in a…

— Jimmy Santiago Baca

I run about four days per week and do some sort of hike or yoga/stretching on the other three. Kind of self-propelling…

— Madi Diaz

Once the threshold is crossed when there is a self-sustaining level of life in space, then life's long-range future will be secure…

— Martin Rees

You have to make decisions for yourself before you can make decisions with someone.

— Anonymous

“I curse the sadness of my bottomless heart that made the song called “I”.”

— Akiko Yanagiwara

“Our self-worth is not who we know or what we know. Our self-worth is in what we do.”

— Ron Baratono

The only thing I hate worse than prophecy is self-fulfilling prophecy

— Bill Maher

For God's sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.

— Anton Chekhov

The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking.

— John Dewey

You are One with everything. When you are clear about this, your definition of self-interest will change.

— Neale Donald Walsch

I go fishing for a thousand monsters in the depths of my own self

— Soren Kierkegaard

Our self-love can less bear to have our tastes than our opinions condemned.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense.

— L.E. Modesitt Jr

Friendship allows you to see your own life but with a second sympathetic self.

— David Brooks

Self-realization is not the awareness that this world is a dream, that's a part of self-realization.

— Frederick Lenz

To submit to chance is to reveal the self and its obsessions.

— Charles Simic

“You can become anything that you want to be but the goal is for you to become your best self.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Bob Bly is among the most accomplished self-employed copywriters in recent years.

— Steve Slaunwhite

The purpose of the false self is to defend against pain - not deal with reality

— Robert W. Firestone