Self Quotes · Page 197

Life isnt about finding your self its about creating yourself

— Anonymous

An easy, non-self-denying life will never be one of power.

— Hudson Taylor

“I began to understand that self-esteem isn’t everything; it’s just that there’s nothing without it.”

— Gloria Steinem

You cannot be with someone just because you dont want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.à

— Melissa De La Cruz

The short-lived self, teetering on the edge of extinction, is the only thing that can ever really matter.

— Eric Hoffer

I see knowledge of self. I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

— Tracy Morgan

I don't want to sound self-righteous, and I don't want to act like I have it all put together.

— Ainsley Earhardt

The self-portrait is an act of objectifying the self and in that regard is a unique form of portraiture.

— Burton Silverman

“It is human nature for self-doubt to occasionally creep in and take up residence. It happens to even the most successful people…

— Susan C. Young

A wholesome family is one where there is a lot of love. It's living by example. It's acceptance of people at their…

— Daphne Oz

Satori - in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one's own being - these are synonymous.

— Bruce Lee

I was in the death struggle with self: God and Satan fought for my soul those three long hours. God conquered —…

— Aleister Crowley

The academic mind, as we know, is sometimes capable of assuming an aggressive attitude. The official mind, on the contrary, is and…

— Ronald Fisher

The way you treat yourself sets a parameter how you deserve to be be treated. Never settle for anything less than respect…

— Anil Sinha

If I spent my time worrying about what other people would think of my work, I would be too self-conscious to write.

— Christopher Paolini

Society at present suffers far more from waste of money than from want of it. There is dignity in every attempt to…

— Morarji Desai

To regard human beings as tools - as instruments - for the use of other human beings is not only unscientific but…

— Alfred Korzybski

As blacks, we need not be afraid that encouraging moraldevelopment, a conscience and guilt will prevent social action. Black children without the…

— James P Comer

No more photos. Surely there are enough. No more shadows of myself thrown by light onto pieces of paper, onto squares of…

— Margaret Atwood

Everybody naturally wants to abide in that highest frequency of the heart, and it is often through intimate relationships that we are…

— John Friend

The Prayer of Examine produces within us the priceless grace of self-knowledge. I wish I could adequately explain to you how great…

— Richard J. Foster

At its most basic, the spiritual is the experience of the connectedness that underlies reality. The depth of that experience depends on…

— Arthur J. Deikman

Those who applaud social production and networked amateurism, the colorful cacophony that is the Internet, and the creative capacities of everyday people…

— Astra Taylor

I saw that everything, all paths I had been following, all steps I had taken, were leading back to a single point…

— Carl Jung

Art has always had as its test in the long term the ability to speak to our innermost selves.

— Bill Viola

Self-discipline will never make us feel righteous or clean; accepting God's love will.

— Donald Miller

It is trying to be other than one's self that unmans one. Be your own natural self and go ahead.

— Andrew Carnegie

“A man who rightly governs self, may also govern family without the crippling cowardice, crutch of control.”

— T.F. Hodge

I have a great objection to seeing anyone, particularly anyone whom I care about, lose his self-control.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Often it's the deepest pain which empowers you to grow into your highest self.

— Karen Salmansohn

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

— Oscar Wilde

It was an addiction. A pointless, self-destructive addiction. But really, is there any other kind?

— Rachel Vincent

In rock stardom there's an absolute economic upside to self-destruction.

— Courtney Love

Hollywood is about self-invention, and that's where I invented myself.

— Rick Owens

I'm as proud of my inconsistencies as I am my consistencies.

— Myles Horton

one of the tests of a theory is that, once grasped, it appears self-evident.

— Arthur Koestler

He had taken George, my beloved George, from me. And he had taken my other self: Anne.

— Philippa Gregory

I am very self-conscious about seeing myself on television but I do feel people relate to me so it's worth it.

— Sonja Morgan

Love the whole world as if it were your self; then you will truly care for all things.

— Laozi

The sinful emotions are stirred most deeply by self-love.

— Walter J Chantry