Self Quotes · Page 173

I'm addicted to self-improvement. The thing is, there's so damn much about myself to improve.

— A. J. Jacobs

The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.

— Thomas Carlyle

Being a vegan is a first-world phenomenon, completely self-indulgent.

— Anthony Bourdain

I've always stayed true to myself. I've always been my outgoing and outspoken self, and just a funny guy.

— Weston McKennie

It's not records I chase, it's self-improvement. And that cannot be done by taking it easy.

— Chrissie Wellington

A fully functioning employee with a healthy self-image is money in the bank.

— Marilyn Ferguson

Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one's other self listening.

— Ruth Rendell

What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.

— Anita Brookner

You may not have a physical impairment, but you have things, whether it's finances, self-esteem, it doesn't matter. It's cut from the…

— Zach Anner

I had the chance to make every possible mistake and figure out a way to recover from it. Once you realize there…

— Bob Schieffer

These new metal bands are going out, getting drunk and going to strip clubs, and they'll be doing the same in thirty…

— Moby

Robots will someday, or maybe, wake up. They may be really smart. They may be as creative, smart and capable as human…

— David Hanson

Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory.

— Vernon Howard

I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no…

— Frederick Douglass

I'm a Larry David fan, right? And it seems to me that Jewish history from the Talmud on has been a self-deprecating,…

— Peter Eisenman

“I always believed that If I’m not carrying at least a slight poetically painful crack in my heart I’ve been cheated by…

— Annie Ali

Why shouldn't you strengthen your own vibrations through fellowship with people seeking Self-realization, and by group meditation with them? This practice will…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Ah, wasteful woman, she who may On her sweet self set her own price, Knowing man cannot choose but pay, How has…

— Coventry Patmore

A certain number of people seek power over other people in a desperate attempt to find themselves. They fail, for self-discovery is…

— Vernon Howard

The thing you fail to grasp is that people are not basically good. We are basically selfish. We shove and clamour and…

— Christopher Nolan

“Gnan (knowledge) is a light. If you do penance after attaining that light, then you will attain liberation (moksha). And with this…

— Dada Bhagwan

The Christian religion and morality extols the glory of the Hereafter, and therefore remains indifferent to the horrors of the earth. Indeed,…

— Emma Goldman

The Ayodhya judgment will work as a catalyst to maintain peace and unity in the country. This judgment has given a respect…

— Narendra Modi

Come from the heart, the true heart, not the head. When in doubt, choose the heart. This does not mean to deny…

— Brian Weiss

There's very thin line between self-respect nd ego...Make sure uh judge it right ..!!!

— Dhillon

“He who recognizes that he is separate from the Prakruti (Relative Self) is a Gnani Purush (Enlightened One).”

— Dada Bhagwan

“Teach a person to think and they'll devise a way to eat for a lifetime”

— William Robson

I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.

— Dan Harmon

Hiddenness is the place of purification. In hiddenness we find our true selves.

— Henri Nouwen

Turn off any self-talk that tells you that you are destined to live a small life. You're not.

— Loral Langemeier

Happiness is being at peace with yourself while the self is united with a larger order of things.

— Henryk Skolimowski

“Living for myself ends at myself, and that is very small place to end.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The restrain (saiyam) of kashay (anger-pride-deceit-greed) is called as saiyam [inner control].”

— Dada Bhagwan

People write memoirs - this is my take, anyway - out of a great sense of self-importance.

— Greil Marcus

I can't bear to be on a train without a book", she announced. " It's a form of self-defence in a way" .

— John Boyne

We all have a lifelong habit of inferiority to our full self..."

— William James

Often times I have hated in self-defense; if I were stronger I would not have used such a weapon.

— Anonymous

Thank you for this lovely blunt object that I will forevermore use as a weapon against self-doubt.

— Anne Hathaway

The poorest education that teaches self-control is better than the best that neglects it.

— Dorothy Nevill

I meant to behave, but there were so many other options.

— Priyanka