Self Quotes · Page 189

There is no greater punishment than that of being abandoned to one's self.

— Pasquier Quesnel

I've never been that person who has a lot of self-doubt.

— Lucy Bronze

In martial arts, the biggest enemy is self. Inside you struggle because you want to prove something.

— Jet Li

I believe, in general, that even people that are self-pitying, you can feel for them.

— Mike White

Fear and niceness, the handmaids of all women, or more truly, woman its pretty self.

— William Shakespeare

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.

— Joan Didion

Marxism is always open, always critical, always self-critical.

— Ernest Mandel

People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-esteem, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning.

— W. Edwards Deming

I remember walking out in front of that crowd, all the parents' faces and the applause, and folding my little self in…

— Dallas Roberts

Everyone living under the social contract we call democracy has a duty to act responsibly, to obey the laws, and to abandon…

— Simon Mainwaring

Anyone in pursuit of art is responding to a desire to make visible that which is not, to offer the unknown self…

— Hettie Jones

I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap…

— Viggo Mortensen

“The Knowledge that manifests in conduct; that is true Knowledge. The rest are considered as knowledge without substance (shushka gnan). This Akram…

— Dada Bhagwan

Don't let your negative self beliefs haunt you out of taking action. You owe it to yourself to live the life that…

— Joel Brown

For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious…

— Margaret Thatcher

Fake titties are inversely proportioned to their owners level of self esteem. This being said, part of me loves them.

— Dov Davidoff

I will be led and taught of the Holy Spirit. God desires full development, use and activity of our faculties. The Holy…

— Roger Youderian

Low self-esteem causes me to believe that I have so little worth that my response does not matter. With repentance, however, I…

— John Ortberg

If you wish others to respect you, you must show respect for them...Everyone wants to feel that he counts for something and…

— Ari Kiev

Jesus did not identify the person with his sin, but rather saw in this sin something alien, something that really did not…

— Helmut Thielicke

“When he was in the army he'd picked up a great many girls: sometimes nothing happened except a lot of talk, and…

— Truman Capote

The shift in American society from admiring Christians to fearing and criticizing them provides an opportunity for self-reflection. How have we been…

— Philip Yancey

“I said just let me try one more time and she said, "THAT'S ENOUGH, ISABEL," again, and she could just say it…

— Amy Reed

From childhood forward, our hair is one of the most critical, defining aspects of our embodied selves as black women: how we…

— Melissa Harris-Perry

Beware of any belief that makes you self-indulgent; it came from the pit, no matter how beautiful it sounds.

— Oswald Chambers

The secret to happiness is short-term, stupid self-interest!

— Bill Watterson

The urge to escape our real self is also an urge to escape the rational and the obvious.

— Eric Hoffer

False humility is thinly veiled ego disguised as self confidence.

— Dov Davidoff

Self-government relies, in the end, on the governing of the self.

— George W. Bush

To me, growing into spiritual maturity is becoming less self-conscious and more God-conscious.

— Mark Batterson

It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.

— Charles Eames

Well, the real Eric Bogosian is pretty self-conscious of himself.

— Eric Bogosian

“It is not so much that we have a self, it's that we do self-ing.”

— Rick Hansen

Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides.

— Ruth Hubbard

As for me, then, I love life and cultivate it just as God has been pleased to grant it to us.

— Michel de Montaigne

“I curse the sadness of my bottomless heart that made the song called “I”.”

— Akiko Yanagiwara

You have to make decisions for yourself before you can make decisions with someone.

— Anonymous

True enlightenment is nothing but the nature of one's own self being fully realized.

— Dalai Lama

The only thing I hate worse than prophecy is self-fulfilling prophecy

— Bill Maher

“Our self-worth is not who we know or what we know. Our self-worth is in what we do.”

— Ron Baratono