Self Quotes · Page 149

I do not know any way so sure of making others happy as of being so oneself, to begin with.

— Arthur Helps

Anytime you're sitting there writing a book about yourself, it's a pretty self-fulfilling prophecy, I guess.

— Samoa Joe

I had so much self doubt in the past, but I'm trying to push myself.

— Emily Atack

We should exhibit no self doubt to our friends, ... Credibility is a strategic asset.

— John McCain

Self-expression is the dominant necessity of human nature.

— Anonymous

Self-care means accepting some risk, and accepting much responsibility. It is not for all people or all cases.

— Andrew Saul

To reach perfection, we must all pass, one by one, through the death of self-effacement.

— Dag Hammarskjold

I've got a transcendental way of thinking about things. I've got a galactic self.

— B.o.B

Happiness is self-generated as the mind becomes still. As we become involved with the desires of the world, we lose that centering,…

— Frederick Lenz

But an experienced reader is also a self-aware and critical reader. I can't remember ever reading a story without judging it.

— Hilary Mantel

The notion that economic life is a distinct realm, governed by immutable laws of narrow self-interest, is giving way to a much…

— Frances Moore Lappé

The big Wall Street firms, seemingly so shrewd and self-interested, had somehow become the dumb money. The people who ran them did…

— Michael Lewis

“By prevailing in ignorance [of the Self], worldly life gets charged. By prevailing in the Knowledge of the Self, worldly life discharges!”

— Dada Bhagwan

Sometime, when you start thinking too much what an audience is going to think, when you're too self-conscious about it, you make…

— Christopher Nolan

Go on your knees before God. Bring all your idols; bring self-will, and pride, and every evil lust before Him, and give…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Caution! Be very careful of false, meaningless, self-contradictory, and not even very funny warnings, like this one.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

“You like telling your stories,” said my friend in that coffee shop, “because you’re secure enough in your current self, the self…

— Elizabeth Bristol

In high school, I was so painfully self-aware that how I thought of myself was probably very different from what other people…

— Amy Adams

If any one of us has had an ambition higher than that of making money; a motive better than that of expediency;…

— Henry Adams

The acceptance of corporatism causes us to deny and undermine the legitimacy of the individual as citizen in a democracy. The result…

— John Ralston Saul

The one aim of [my] yoga is an inner self-development by which each one who follows it can in time discover the…

— Sri Aurobindo

For many activities, people cannot rely solely on themselves in evaluating their ability level because such judgments require inferences from probabilistic indicants…

— Albert Bandura

Start dating someone who is funny, someone who has what in high school you called a "really great sense of humor" and…

— Lorrie Moore

I should have wished to possess the intellectual equilibrium that characterizes you and permits you to achieve without fail the desired end...…

— Paul Cezanne

As a god self-slain on his own strange altar, Death lies dead.

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

They tell you to be your self then they judge you for it

— Abbigail Russell

It is easier to make money than to save it. One is exertion, the other, self-denial.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Sometimes we choose a friend who mirrors our fantasies, dreams of a self we wish we could be.

— Lillian B. Rubin

“If one wants to go to moksha (Ultimate Liberation), then one will have to ‘everywhere adjust’.”

— Dada Bhagwan

Be yourself because you never know when your true love will find you and love your true self.

— Collin Mitchell

Artists are the worst [people]. They are selfish, self-centred; they don't care what happens.

— Ai Weiwei

I managed to reach a depth of self-loathing that usually takes a night of drinking to achieve.

— Anthony Bourdain

The desire to be self-supporting and financially independent is a divine desire

— Catherine Ponder

if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading.

— Paulo Coelho

Reality TV is the perfect antidote to people who don't have enough self-centered douchebags in their life.

— Dana Gould

Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty's self and beauty's giver.

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

The one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.

— Bede Griffiths

Music is a self-propelling thing. You can not rely on anybody but yourself.

— James Vincent McMorrow

Do you ever feel like you cant trust anyone, well I do all the time...

— Anonymous