Self Quotes · Page 208

Genetics do play a role in how you consciously or subconsciously manifest your true self.

— Ben Harper

“I simply love being me. You have no power to control my feelings because I own my own heart”

— Che Acebido

“People are ready to die for their opinion, but not for the Self.”

— Dada Bhagwan

Secular artists see themselves with performance; they are more self involved, presentational.

— Boris Kodjoe

I have really low self-esteem, and it's not easy for me to put myself on an album cover.

— Bradford Cox

Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror.

— Antonio Porchia

I sing the body that is electric! I celebrate the Self yet to be unveiled!

— Walt Whitman

Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.

— Sun Tzu

Slobodan Milosevic was just as smart as a five-year-old. Five-year-olds have an uncanny way of getting into your psyche, your self-esteem.

— Wesley Clark

I believe becoming healthy and working out saved my life by giving me the confidence and self worth to achieve my goals.

— Kim Lyons

Not on the outer world For inward joy depend; Enjoy the luxury of thought, Make thine own self friend; Not with the…

— Lydia Sigourney

Incongruities between self-efficacy and action may stem from misperceptions of task demands, as well as from faulty self-knowledge

— Albert Bandura

I always take a close look at those who lose themselves in self portraits. They are solitary souls, prone to introspection, who…

— Young-Ha Kim

The movie industry has ignored the success of films that look favorably on faith with the same sort of self-destructive stubbornness that…

— Michael Medved

I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

A vampire is a flexible metaphor. You know, death, sex, change, stagnation, loss of self, loss of agency, having to keep one's…

— Kelly Link

“Thinking, he walked ever more slowly and asked himself, What is it now that you were hoping to learn from doctrines and…

— Hermann Hesse

You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's success is gauged by his…

— Leonardo da Vinci

You should work extra hard to be your best selves. True evil has a hard time operating in the face of strenuous…

— Jean Ferris

Well, you know, it's a younger person, and it was maybe an effort to be a little more sincere and adult about…

— Stephen Malkmus

Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend,…

— Alexander Pope

For the sinful self is not my real self, it is not the self YOU have wanted for me, only the self…

— Thomas Merton

All of us from fertile egg to embryo to corpse, are exactly that: warm, wet, furry animals compelled by the sexuality of…

— Lynn Margulis

Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good... There is something about…

— Jonathan Sacks

The essence of self-fulfillment and autonomous culture is an unshakable egotism.

— H. L. Mencken

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

— Frank Herbert

“Relationships are often transactional, except of course we want to wallow in self-deception.”

— John Joclebs Bassey

I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.

— Anonymous

Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale.

— Alfred Whitney Griswold

The only thing infinite is our capacity for self-deception

— Robert Todd Carroll

The Gaian process is more than a process. It is s self-reflecting entelechy of some sort.

— Terence McKenna

The howl of self-interest is loud ... but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

A person don't need you, They need what you have, and is only out to take what you have. - Loverboi

— Kenneth Melvin Jr

A skillful man reads his dreams for self-knowledge, yet not the details but the quality

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“This is the Self-Esteem Looking-Glass. You have to look in the mirror and compliment yourself.”

— Malia Ann Haberman

It is not love of self but hatred of self which is at the root of the troubles that afflict our world.

— Eric Hoffer

Self-worth comes from who we are in Christ, not what we accomplish in this world.

— Pete Wilson

As for the largest-hearted of us, what is the word we write most often in our cheque-books? "Self.

— Eden Phillpotts

“Loving the self involves faith and trust and belief in who you are, and a willingness to take action upon it.”

— Sanaya Roman

Thinking you are the best that is the time you can find your self

— Hasina Jalili