Self Quotes · Page 158

Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.

— Elbert Hubbard

Beauty means expression and being your most authentic self.

— Paloma Elsesser

Self-discipline is a rigorous process at best; too many of us want it to be effortless and painless.

— Thomas S. Monson

Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Righteousness cannot be born until self-righteousness is dead.

— Bertrand Russell

The relationship with yourself is the most important relationship you’ll ever have.

— Judith Orloff

For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit.

— Robert Genn

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

— Terry Tempest Williams

Be yourself. That's it. I got about 45 [billionaires] . They are all different, all unique, and they are all self-made.

— Tony Robbins

Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and…

— Joseph Butler

“Connection between the Soul and Nischetan Chetan (discharging self) is kashays (anger-pride-deceit-greed). ‘We’ (the enlightened one) eradicate these kashays!”

— Dada Bhagwan

Self pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from…

— John Gardner

Those are not the tears of repentance!... Self-loathing is not sorrow. Yet it is good, for it marks a step in the…

— George MacDonald

When you're a kid growing up, and you think you're gay, you know that you're different; you're often teased and it can…

— Greg Louganis

My advice to my younger self would have been, "Chill. Concentrate on the poems. Everything else will work itself out."

— Denise Duhamel

There can be no self-government without self-discipline. There can be no self-government without self-control. There can be no liberty unless it is…

— Alan Keyes

As a youth, I hated myself for not being good enough. All my inadequacies and failures, not being kind enough, generous or…

— Mira Sorvino

The best of modern therapy is much like a process of shared meditation, where therapist and client sit together, learning to pay…

— Jack Kornfield

Men should do their actual living and working in communities small enough to permit of genuine self-government and the assumption of personal…

— Mahatma Gandhi

When you use the form of a novel, and you say 'I,' you are also saying 'I' for someone else. When you…

— Karl Ove Knausgard

Whereas the average individuals "often have not the slightest idea of what they are, of what they want, of what their own…

— Abraham Maslow

There's the part that I just want what I want, and I don't want to be bothered by anything else, and sort…

— Eli Pariser

There must be love, and understanding, to betray. Most men haven't the wit or the honor for betrayal: not to know it…

— Janet Morris

If you ask a Saudi Imam why women in Saudi Arabia can't drive, he'll say, 'Because Islam demands it.' But that's absurd,…

— Reza Aslan

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

— Dalai Lama

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

— Dada Bhagwan

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

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

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

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

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

— Aristotle

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

— Vera Brittain

Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.

— Anonymous