Self Quotes · Page 188

Responsible people work, earn, save, invest, make things better for self & family. Lefties call that "greed."

— Philip Schuyler

If I'm gonna lose, it's gonna be my fault - no excuses but my self if I didn't win, and it worked…

— Mike Perry

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.

— Marcus Garvey

“It is when you start to have the interest of people in your heart that when you start to make a change.”

— peter adejimi

Romance is a means to the end of self-completion, but love is an end in itself.

— Gloria Steinem

Zen is the way of splitting the self again and again, untilt there is nothing left.

— Frederick Lenz

Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.

— Kanye West

You must become aware of the richness in you and come to believe in it and know it is there, so that…

— Brenda Ueland

For real self esteem is not derived from the great things you've done, the things you won. The mark you've made -…

— Maxwell Perkins

Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious,…

— Anonymous

Suffering shapes the life force, sometimes into anger, sometimes into blame and self-pity. Eventually it may show us the wisdom of embracing…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

Peace has been variously defined, but perhaps we might think of it as 'harmony within one's self, and with God and man.'

— Marion G. Romney

Partly I was honing my self-consciousness into a torture device, sharp and efficient enough to last me the rest of my life.

— Lucy Grealy

In order not to cut out a large part of one's private life, the creative work should not swallow up every other…

— Elena Ferrante

“...to see was not to control, that self-understanding was far short of self-mastery. He was afraid of himself.”

— Richard Wright

I loved surrealism and abstract painting, and anything related to those. I always thought painting was the highest form of art. What…

— Neil Farber

...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, out of…

— Arthur Koestler

If you asked me what makes the world go round, I would say self-deception. Self-deception allows us to create a consistent narrative…

— Errol Morris

I think there's a suspicion in the South of people putting on airs. You see it in most successful Southern politicians, but…

— John Shelton Reed

Poor human nature cannot do everything; and kindness is too often left uncultivated, because men do not sufficiently understand its value. Men…

— Frederick William Faber

The feeling, "this can't be it", is a very powerful form of prayer. It's the agony of the separated self longing for…

— Alan Cohen

Proficiency in art is a contract with your self and the empowerment of your self. Not all of us demand or even…

— Paul Gauguin

The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or…

— Aldous Huxley

“One who is absorbed in the Self for even a moment, can become the absolute Self (Paramatma).”

— Dada Bhagwan

If I saw my 15-year-old self now, I'd think I wasn't that bad, but back then I perceived myself as awful.

— Orla Brady

Self grooming is a practice everyone needs to adopt to stay presentable.

— Mazher

Since I turned 40, I've become less self-doubting, but it still happens.

— Ruth Jones

You have, like the external world, your own phenomena inside.

— Saul Bellow

To have a friendship with God, all I really have to do is have a friendship with my Self.

— Neale Donald Walsch

VWhatever you do, do it for yourself, and practice not worrying what anyone else thinks.

— Senoraroy

Bill Evans described his tunes as vehicles; they are vehicles for self-expression, or expression of the self.

— Kenny Werner

Few things turn-off an audience more than a performer with an air of self-imporance or a 'message.'

— Jay Sankey

The call for a sincere gift of self is the fullest way to realize our personal freedom.

— Pope John Paul II

People always want to ask me about my drug problem - I never had a drug problem; I had a self-esteem problem!

— Gloria Gaynor

“On the other hand, you're a human--you should understand self-obsession.”

— Markus Zusak

I'm such a self-critic, that I find it hard to give myself credit for something.

— Alexander Gustafsson

Patrimonial capitalism's legacy is that many people see reform as a euphemism for corruption and self-dealing.

— James Surowiecki

“There is only one you. Stop trying to devalue yourself by trying to be a copy of someone else.”

— Susie Clevenger

“set me a task in witch i can put something of my very self and it is a task no longer,it is…

— Bliss Carman