Self Quotes · Page 183

Self-help and self-control are the essence of the American tradition.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Only in America could you find a way to make a healthy buck, And still keep your attitude on self-destruct.

— Daniel Dumile

There's something very self-conscious about a writer who's addressing his reader. Don't do that.

— Ewan McGregor

Kindness is the essence of truth, when we are kind toward others it reflects our true self.

— Anonymous

“Note To Self! I will stay calm and relaxed no matter what confronts me today, tomorrow and everyday forth!”

— Allan Rufus

“There is no shame in having been the woman I was. She made me the woman I am.”

— Julie-Anne

I've always believed that makeup is a form of self-expression and there is no shame in experimenting with it.

— NikkieTutorials

“When we bring self-compassion into everyday life, we learn to be kind to ourselves.”

— Carmel Sheridan

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

— Rachel Cusk

Self - development should be a perpetual process. In life you are either growing or rotting. You're moving forward or backwards; there…

— Al Duncan

“The "self," it seems today, is at the core of the nation's worldview rather than others (the common good), or God.”

— Martha MacCullough

Self-realization is a process of permanent auto-creation, an elaboration of the new man at the expense of the old.

— Nikolai Berdyaev

People are taking it for granted that [the Negro] ought not to work with his head. And it is so easy for…

— Paul Laurence Dunbar

If you run for mayor, people say you're being egotistical. If you decide you won't run for mayor, people say you're being…

— Matt Gonzalez

May I consider the wise man rich, and may I have such wealth as only the self-restrained man can bear or endure.

— Socrates

That man is great, and he alone, Who serves a greatness not his own, For neither praise nor self: Content to know…

— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

The judge who sits over the murderer and looks into his face, and at one moment recognizes all the emotions and potentialities…

— Anonymous

Know thou the self (spirit) as riding in a chariot, The body as the chariot. Know thou the intellect as the chariot-driver,…

— Albert Pike

“Self-care isn’t selfish. It’s necessary. The problem is, if you’re constantly saying yes to other people, putting their priorities ahead of your…

— Damon Zahariades

Ours is a society that has falsely assumed that contribution must mean giving to some specific cause rather than simply giving our…

— Brendon Burchard

Within the new self-help books for women, patriarachy and male domination are rarely identified as forces that lead to the oppression, exploitation,…

— Bell Hooks

But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness - each system only too…

— Herbert Butterfield

Symbols are specific acts or figures, while myths develop and elaborate these symbols into a story which contains characters and several episodes.…

— Rollo May

People also like partnerships because they can identify with the drama of two people in partnership. They can feed off a partnership,…

— Mick Jagger

With this kind of camera-phone madness we have got, moments are diluted into self-contained edited experiences.

— Doc Brown

No celebrity bullshit,no self promotion,an amazingly gifted player who remained an unaffected human being

— Roy Keane

“Whatever is being done, without realization of the Self is nothing but a loss indeed!”

— Dada Bhagwan

“Why does it take a man's attention to make me see anything good about myself?”

— E.M. Abel

Characterization requires self-knowledge, insight into human nature . . . it is more than impersonation.

— Leon Surmelian

But Nightshirts aren't dangerous," Pippi assured her. "They don't bite anybody except in self defense.

— Astrid Lindgren

A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt.

— Robert Sheckley

I think self-discipline is something, it's like a muscle. The more you exercise it, the stronger it gets.

— Daniel Goldstein

“Though we rush ahead to save our time, we are only what we feel”

— Neil Young

I wish my 15-year-old self had known about my allure to the opposite sex!

— Benedict Cumberbatch

We are made up of nothing. There is no self. We are whatever we decide we are.

— Frederick Lenz

Never think deeply about your exs because if they were good enough for you they would never leave.

— Noura :p

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

— Eckhart Tolle

People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.

— Iris Murdoch

The most steady, the most self-sufficient nature depends, more than it knows, on its few chosen stimuli.

— Elizabeth Bowen

Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.

— Andrew Marvell