Self Quotes · Page 198

The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history.

— John F. Kennedy

Most of us don't live our lives with one, integrated self that meets the world, we're a whole bunch of selves.

— Christopher Moore

Perhaps the most important reason for self-disclosure is that without it we cannot truly love.

— Sidney Jourard

All of us need to self-promote. We cannot sit back and wait for our gallery or rep to do it all.

— Jack White

There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance--do not sacrifice that to anything else.

— John D. Rockefeller

The most important, overriding arc of my career has been that I would never be self-deprecating.

— Sandra Bernhard

All successes begin with Self-Discipline. It starts with you.

— Dwayne Johnson

Self-motivation is a simple process of being true to yourself and others alike with a real simplicity.

— Anuj Somany

“Satsang means the path to One's own town, to One's own home! Satsang is the discussion of one's own Self, everything else…

— Dada Bhagwan

There is only one problem on which all my existence, my peace, my happiness depend: to discover myself in discovering God. If…

— Thomas Merton

I've been a Nick Cave fan since the early '80s when he was part of The Birthday Party thing singing Australian self-destructive…

— Aleksandar Hemon

Our ego is a monster that loves to sit at the head of the table, and I have learned that my ego…

— Amy Poehler

But victimhood was seductive, a release from responsibility and caring. Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation; failure would no longer generate…

— Dean Koontz

“Shuddha Upayog (pure applied awareness as the Self) is the same as Parmatma Swaroop (embodiment of the absolute Self).”

— Dada Bhagwan

To go from playing a character that was so self-assured, so mature beyond her years, and so kick-ass and ruthless to someone…

— Alycia Debnam Carey

Others form man; I tell of him, and portray a particular one, very ill-formed, whom I should really make very different from…

— Michel de Montaigne

Just as physical energy comes from diet, exercise and rest, emotional energy comes from the ways you take care of yourself emotionally…

— Mira Kirshenbaum

I.Q. deficiency. There are some people who are an order of fries short of a Happy Meal, and what is often a…

— Rush Limbaugh

Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and…

— Alfred North Whitehead

What is this thing that has us chewing at our own selves, grating ourselves against our own sharp sieve? It is the…

— Bonnie Friedman

So let us decide whether you want a shelter, a safety zone, which will no longer yield conflict, whether you want to…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The highest truth is to delete, not to add. To get rid of the things you believe in now. So empty yourself…

— Robert Adams

At the beginning of the book [The Dissemblers], Ivy [Wilkes] has a long way to go in order to achieve self-sufficiency. Although…

— Liza Campbell

When malice has reason on its side, it looks forth bravely, and displays that reason in all its luster. When austerity and…

— Blaise Pascal

You have an evil twin who is always with you. He is called your ego.

— Peter Kreeft

Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.

— Vernon Howard

Autocratic governments are masters of self-contradiction. They say one thing, do another.

— Alastair Reynolds

“Yoga self-love is a healthy diet, daily practice, forgiveness, clear intentions, and staying present .”

— Deep A Yogi Friend

As a teenager I was severely, cripplingly dramatic and in search of self.

— Juliette Lewis

Sometimes you need to lose and eye to see your self for the first time.

— Anonymous

Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.

— Candice Bergen

Self-deceit is a most damaging trait. The remedy, for an artist, is to paint a self-portrait!

— Scott Kahn

In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference.

— Douglas Hofstadter

Against self-slaughter There is a prohibition so divine That cravens my weak hand.

— William Shakespeare

If you're reading it in a book, folks, it ain't self-help. It's help.

— George Carlin

There are persons who elected to give their existence to God. They are happy, happy in their self-giving.

— Frederick Lenz

Humble yourself, you’ll grow greater than the world.Your Self will be revealed to you, without you.

— Rumi

Self-responsibility is the core quality of the fully mature, fully functioning, self-actualizing individual.

— Brian Tracy

Everyone is beautiful in their own way, and nobody should have self doubt.

— Nia Jax

“Self is that which dies... Spirit is that which lives... forever.”

— Joan Walsh Anglund