Self Quotes · Page 178

The first step in this process of mindfulness is radical self-acceptance .

— Stephen Batchelor

“Upayog (applied awareness) is considered as Jagruti (awakened awareness).”

— Dada Bhagwan

Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one's self- sovereignty.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth.

— Anais Nin

Self-esteem is felt even though you may not have done anything yet, but just feel the capability for it.

— Denis Waitley

Everybody likes to get as much power as circumstances allow, and nobody will vote for a self-denying ordinance.

— Anonymous

To come out of your inhibition and undesirable bad habits you must inculcate habits of successful people.

— Anil Sinha

Your self-esteem has never been hurt before, right? Don't be so full of yourself then.

— Kim A-joong

While I'm grateful for the freedom to express one's self, I've learned there are limits to what language is appropriate and I'm…

— Psy

Self-conceit is a weighty quality, and will sometimes bring down the scale when there is nothing else in it. It magnifies a…

— Jeremy Collier

I do not look on self-indulgent, sensual people as worthy of my hatred; I simply look upon them with contempt for their…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

When life gets harder, have yourself tougher. When life gets even harder, have yourself even more tougher until it never get harder…

— Jessel Jane Zozobrado

So, Americans, then. Self-appointed vigilante defenders of the world, kind of like Superman, if Superman was retarded and only fought crime when…

— Yahtzee Croshaw

The meeting of man and God must always mean a penetration and entry of the divine into the human and a self-immergence…

— Sri Aurobindo

Because we have this whole other human being we have to think about other than ourselves. We had the luxury before of…

— Will Arnett

Knowing that I am different from the body, I need not neglect the body. It is a vehicle that I use to…

— Adi Shankara

Once we are self-aware, we must choose purposes and principles to live by; otherwise the vacuum will be filled, and we will…

— Stephen Covey

Never before has a populist democracy attained international supremacy. But the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion,…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

I was a small business owner, father, and husband just living out in the suburbs. I kind of had a boring life…

— Frank Warren

It is the transcendent (or 'abstract' or 'self-contained') nature of music that the new so called concretism--Pop Art, eighteen-hour slices-of-reality films, musique…

— Igor Stravinsky

Other people gotta be told when to go to the gym, what to work out, what to work on, what to do.…

— DeMar DeRozan

Once, when I was younger, I thought I could be someone else. I'd move to Casablanca, open a bar, and I'd meet…

— Haruki Murakami

“Dehadhyas (the belief that ‘I am the body’) does not leave without [the grace of] the Gnani Purush (the Self-realized One, who…

— Dada Bhagwan

The Spirit which is within you is a collective being and once you are awakened into the light of Spirit, you become…

— Nirmala Srivastava

Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.

— Abraham Maslow

When you fix something with your hands it gives you a sense of accomplishment and a sense of self worth.

— Jay Leno

“Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.”

— Brian Tracy

If one is true to one's inner self, and follows its wisdom, who is without a teacher?

— Zhuangzi

Fighting was the only way I felt self-worth, with people thinking I was the best.

— Joseph Benavidez

Our sexual self is a complex combination of our social, cultural, and biological inheritance.

— Pepper Schwartz

People never realize how much work impacts there self esteem and sense of purpose until they leave a job.

— Rob Payne

To take refuge with an inferior is to betray one's self.

— Anonymous

For some musicians it becomes self-reflexive to think, "I have to write some of my kind of songs now."

— Alan Licht

Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product.

— Twyla Tharp

A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.

— Joan Robinson

Shame--what happened when my mother, the dragon, huffed and puffed and blew my self down.

— Brennan Manning

“Your self-worth is totally different from your net-worth.”

— Sunday Adelaja

The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest.

— Peter Watts

I think self-education is the greatest and best thing you could ever make.

— Tony Robbins

The most important use of NVC may be in developing self-compassion.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg