Self Quotes · Page 131

What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship.

— Terry Tempest Williams

“Like it or not, we are all in business and the products we are selling is our unique selves.”

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

“If one 'understands' his own Self, he is himself a Parmatma (Absolute Supreme Soul).”

— Dada Bhagwan

Without changing one's self, without peace in one's self, world peace is not possible.

— Dalai Lama

Identity is memory; when memory disappears, the self dissolves and love with it.

— John Lahr

Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.

— Imelda Marcos

Love is not about others; love is a practice of self-mastery.

— Anonymous

I'm not good with pickup lines or flirting. I don't have that kind of self-confidence or natural charisma.

— Steve Carell

I actually finally let the Light in and then I was able to create all these songs that were inspired by letting…

— Katy Perry

There’s only one basic principle of self-defense- you must apply the most effective weapon, as soon as possible, to the most vulnerable…

— Bruce Lee

Although I enjoy digging through the library to help students find books, my aim is to help them develop self-confidence in choosing…

— Donalyn Miller

“Not everyone is always going to like you. What impresses one person may turn another away. To thine own self be true.”

— Susan C. Young

Self-love makes our friends appear more or less deserving in proportion to the delight we take in them, and the measures by…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Her imperturbable self-confidence (Duchesse de Maine) caused Madame de Stael to write that the Duchesse believed in herself the same way she…

— Antonia Fraser

“You don't have to be like anyone else. You just need to learn more about your own creative self and start blooming.”

— Deborah Day

How to use and leverage the presence and power of certain places for accessing the authentic dimension of self in individuals and…

— Otto Scharmer

Gluttony should be destroyed by self-control; unchastity by desire for God and longing for the blessings held in store; avarice by compassion…

— John of Damascus

“She discovered that underneath the aspect of the Rumpled Porcupine, a tortured Marxist was at war with an impossible, incurable Romantic -…

— Arundhati Roy

Disgrace is a subtle, multi-layered story, as much concerned with politics as it is with the itch of male flesh. Coetzee's prose…

— Paul Bailey

Man must have results, real results, in his inner and outer life. I do not mean the results which modern people strive…

— Jacob Needleman

I've always been slightly self-conscious as an actor, and I guess that sometimes reads as pomposity. Starting when I was 30, I…

— Charles Kimbrough

I cannot prove to you that God exists, but my work has proved empirically that the pattern of God exists in every…

— Carl Jung

Praise lies upon a higher plain than thanksgiving. When I give thanks, my thoughts still circle around myself to some extent. But…

— Ole Hallesby

For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and…

— Peter Kreeft

The source of love isn’t in your self. It isn’t in your experience. It’s in you.

— John de Ruiter

Doom comes about because of neglecting to evaluate one's self and because of just following one's whims.

— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

Children of the future, watching empires fall. Madness the cup they drink from, self destruction the toll.

— Ozzy Osbourne

Bodies come and go, ages come and go, yugas come and go, eternities come and go. Selves come and go.

— Frederick Lenz

I think there's something we all relate to about...wanting to get to our most primal self.

— Vin Diesel

What a fool I would have been to let self-respect interfere with my happiness!

— Kurt Vonnegut

The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement.

— Aristotle

most of us have to be self-righteous before we can be righteous.

— Vera Brittain

The truth is how you say it, and to be 'one's self' is the most shocking custom of all.

— Djuna Barnes

As long as we can tell stories about our ability to survive, the more we will hope, not self-destruct.

— Christina Ricci

The evil done by oneself, self-begotten, self-bred, crushes the foolish, as a diamond breaks a precious stone.

— Max Muller

Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.

— Eric Hoffer

If any one hates to be alone with himself, the chances are that he has not much of any self to be…

— Robert Haven Schauffler

Self-esteem is an inner feeling: Sometimes it corresponds with outer reality, and sometimes it doesn’t.

— Stanley Greenspan

The person who masters himself through self-control and discipline is truly undefeatable.

— Gautama Buddha

I was always self-taught, there was no-one to study with when I was doing composition.

— Richard Meale