Self Quotes · Page 150

“We all get to discover who we really are at some point, and when we do, it can be quite unsettling.”

— Ted Dekker

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

— Anonymous

When you think you can't do it, push yourself and you'll get it done

— Sonya Parker

“Decadent self-expression has no place in rock and roll.”

— Dave Marsh

One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.

— Gore Vidal

Mistakes are a drag, because you get in the area of regret and self-pity.

— Carrie Fisher

Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth.

— John Owen

One gains by losing self for others and not by hoarding for oneself.

— Watchman Nee

As a Christian, there is no other part of the New Right ideology that concerns me more than its self-serving misuse of…

— Mark Hatfield

“The world is not as people know it. The world is vikalpi (one with I-ness; belief of ‘I am Chandulal’), and vignan…

— Dada Bhagwan

A little bit of irreverence is necessary to have any self-esteem at all. Not irreverence for people, but rather, for what other…

— Sherry Argov

The primary object of non-co-operation is nowhere stated to be paralysis of the Government. The primary object is self-purification.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“The One who devours (completely destroys) our ego and makes us viraat (divine & huge) is called the viraat-svaroop (divine manifestation). Only…

— Dada Bhagwan

What a friend we have in a tree, the tree is the symbol of hope, self improvement and what people can do…

— Wangari Maathai

If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close to arrogance.

— Trevor Nunn

Comics speak, without qualm or sophistication, to the innermost ears of the wishful self. The response is like that of a thirsty…

— William Moulton Marston

A kata is not fixed or immoveable. Like water, it's ever changing and fits itself to the shape of the vessel containing…

— Kenwa Mabuni

We are concerned with similar states of consciousness and relationship to the world.. ..If previous abstractions paralleled the scientific and objective preoccupations…

— Mark Rothko

Perhaps, in retrospect, there would be little motivation even for malevolent extraterrestrials to attack the Earth; perhaps, after a preliminary survey, they…

— Carl Sagan

Must you continue to be your own cross? No matter which way God leads you, you change everything into bitterness by constantly…

— Anonymous

Like most qualities, cuteness is delineated by what it isn't. Most people aren't cute at all, or if so they quickly outgrow…

— William S. Burroughs

They were here all at once, but not together. Survival took self-absorption, and it made them strangers with nothing to do and…

— Ann Brashares

One of the great tragedies of life, it seems to me, is when a person classifies himself as someone who has no…

— Marvin J. Ashton

Self-realization is the knowing in all parts of body, mind, and soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

I don't think there is a right approach to teaching self discovery. Every situation is unique.

— Frederick Lenz

I want to unfold. Let no place in me hold itself closed, for where I am closed, I am false...

— Rainer Maria Rilke

While sincerity is to carry the weight of knowledge in the self, it is also to be the lightness of being clean.

— John de Ruiter

“Stay unknown until you know what you want to be known for. #StokesNotes”

— Craig Stokes

The first step to getting what you want is to have the courage to get rid of what you don't.

— Zig Ziglar

The wounds of self-love turn incurable when the oxide of self-love gets into them.

— Honore de Balzac

I can slay a devil when I see one, Steady practice mastery of self so not to be one

— Jay Electronica

He who practices sheel (virtue) and sayyam (self-restrain) attains to greatness

— Shri Radhe Maa

There is always enough self-love hidden beneath the greatest devoutness to set limits on charity.

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

“If it has anything to do with me, it has nothing to do with sacrifice.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

If you believe in living a respectable life, you believe in self-help which is the best help!

— B. R. Ambedkar

“life is what you make of it. If you take it too seriously you just end up injuring your own self.”

— J.D. Hollyfield

I do believe that America's deepest political sickness is that it is a self-righteous nation.

— Norman Mailer

We're all self-made, but only successful people admit it.

— Dan Pena

You can't have self confidence without some real skills that enable you to be successful.

— Erik Weihenmayer

What I would like to say to my younger self is, 'You really need to accept the way you look.'

— Megan McKenna