Self Quotes · Page 157

“Why had it been left for a stranger to reveal him to himself?”

— Oscar Wilde

“The ‘relative’ delights the mind (manoranjan), the ‘real’ delights the Self (the soul, atmaranjan).”

— Dada Bhagwan

We have the kind of self-made-man myth, which says that super-successful people did it themselves.

— Malcolm Gladwell

You can treat experience as a set of surprises on which to exercise your quirky self.

— William Stafford

Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone.

— Carlos Castaneda

Being on stage is about self esteem and self confidence.

— Jake Miller

For a person to feel responsible for his actions, he must sense that the behavior has flowed from the self.

— Stanley Milgram

“poet convinced both of his own talent and of the need to be self-indulgent in order to be a great artist.”

— Walter Isaacson

Zazen is the ultimate practice. This is indeed the True Self. The Buddhadharma is not to be sought outside of this.

— Dogen

For pride, which is the inordinate attribution of goods and values and glories to one's own contingent self, cannot exist where there…

— Thomas Merton

The best form of customer service is self service. Constantly empower customers to get their own answers themselves.

— Dan Pena

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best,…

— Simon Pegg

Love requires that we overcome the traditional and self-defeating fears that place distance between ourselves and others.

— Leo Buscaglia

Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in peoples minds with…

— Rachel Cusk

“It’s time to accept that I am average, and to stop making this acceptance of my averageness into a bereavement.”

— Sara Baume

My real self, the self I have always been from a child, is a loner and nerd, slightly overweight, with a very…

— Hayley Atwell

I can't describe it in words, but I can see it in my head, its color, its light, its shapes, and I've…

— John Mayer

America glories in its tradition of the self-made individual. Political candidates compete to be a friend to entrepreneurs, and policymakers, imagining the…

— Mark McKinnon

My point is that it's incorrect to say that the Iraq policy isn't working. It is working. It is doing what they…

— Michael Parenti

As there must be moderation in other things, so there must be moderation in self-criticism. Perpetual contemplation of our own actions produces…

— Herbert Spencer

I had the same sensation as when we watch someone sleep. When asleep we all become children again. Perhaps because in the…

— Fernando Pessoa

Now stand you on the top of happy hours, And many maiden gardens yet unset, With virtuous wish would bear you living…

— William Shakespeare

Marie [Henein]'s adeptness at evisceration - I'm damp with it. She was able to instill in me a feeling of self-loathing. And,…

— Lucy DeCoutere

Self-publishing in comics is core to the whole artform. There is no scarlet letter in comics as there still is, to some…

— Kieron Gillen

Collectivism requires self-sacrifice, the subordination of one's interests to those of others.

— Ayn Rand

If you don't have self love you can never find it outside of yourself.

— David Koechner

Ultimately all idolatry is worship of the self projected and objectified: all idolization is self-idolization.

— Will Herberg

There is nothing I need so much as nourishment for my Self Esteem

— Alfred Lunt

A self without a shelf remains cryptic; a home without books naked.

— Leah Price

My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.

— Alan Garner

Every man is correct in asking God why he is stuck with himself, and his rotten luck.

— William Saroyan

Your self-confidence is directly connected to how much you feel you are making a difference in the world.

— Brian Tracy

One is given to self-dramatization from time to time. I intend to live forever.

— Leonard Cohen

The real key to health and happiness and success is self knowledge

— Laozi

“Sometimes we know who we want to be and what we want to do long... long before we know how to get…

— Patti Callahan Henry

He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.

— Jasper Fforde

Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore.

— David Levithan

I really hate being self-conscious—and being conscious of being self-conscious

— Natalie Portman

To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.

— Mahatma Gandhi