Self Quotes · Page 162

Be confident in your self, because if you're not who will?

— Joseph Mulder

“Your original self is worth more than your imitation of someone else.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

[A]lthough the principle of equality has always been self-evident, it has never been self-executing.

— Barack Obama

All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell.

— C. S. Lewis

I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred.

— Frank Langella

Both therapy and friendship possessed the common denominator of discovering a self.

— Dorothy Gilman

Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.

— Francis of Assisi

Grace is within you. If it were external, it would be useless.

— Ramana Maharshi

The thing about living in a village at the foot of a mountain is that the world for you becomes, without thinking…

— Henry Louis Gates

“Any fool can criticise, condemn and complain – and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.”

— Dale Carnegie

There are people, such as Trump, that want to peddle Bibles, peddle gym shoes, peddle whatever it is. Anything that he can…

— Jasmine Crockett

Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy…

— John Ruskin

When you love someone absolutely and want them to be their truest self - even though that means losing them in some…

— Lucy Boynton

“I used to think that if I were a certain kind of person I would spend all my time creating something beautiful.…

— Jason Letts

Haitians do not need development programs imposed on them by expatriates. Instead, they need help in developing as self-assured persons.

— Tony Campolo

In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and by black night…

— William Shakespeare

Daily life is a comprimised blend of posturing for the sake of role-playing and of varying degrees of self-revelation. Under stressful conditions…

— E. O. Wilson

A half century ago Herbert Wechsler could justify the legal right of deadly force self-defense in terms of the "universal judgment that…

— Don Kates

When someone is unrelentingly critical of you, always finds fault, can never be pleased, and blames you for everything that goes wrong,…

— Beverly Engel

“The self is in the form of one’s own projection. So one becomes whatever the self projects. Then why is it (Self)…

— Dada Bhagwan

Theres no hope, none, of ever talking about it without pissing somebody, if not everybody, off...By the end of this hour I…

— Anthony Bourdain

“Where there is (consideration for) merit karma and demerit karma; true religion is indeed not present there. There is no merit or…

— Dada Bhagwan

Yet we slink about like whipped curs:;... our self-abasement principally takes the form of subservience to the United States:;... we are under…

— Enoch Powell

When others spoke of the fear of war, you spoke of the need for warriors and peace through strength. When others bewailed…

— Margaret Thatcher

The self cannot be escaped, but it can be, with ingenuity and hard work, distracted.

— Donald Barthelme

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

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

— Dag Hammarskjold

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

— Andrew Saul

Self-expression is the dominant necessity of human nature.

— Anonymous

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

— B.o.B

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

— Abbigail Russell

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

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

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