Self Quotes · Page 211

Ordinarily, everything we do is in our self-interest. Everything.

— Anthony de Mello

My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate.

— Alastair Campbell

Self-control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.

— George Bernard Shaw

Self-depreciation is a disease. Once it gets a hold on us - good-bye!

— Douglas Fairbanks

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and thats your own self.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

A bully hides his fears with fake bravado. That is the opposite of self-assertiveness.

— Nathaniel Branden

“I am Chandubhai’ is a vikalp (I-ness), and ‘this is mine’ is sankalp (my-ness).”

— Dada Bhagwan

If you give your Self a chance, your Self will give you all the chances.

— Harbhajan Singh Yogi

The idolatry the exists in a man's heart always wants to lead him away from his Savior and back to self-reliance no…

— Matt Chandler

“Each of us comes into being knowing who he is and what he is supposed to do.' ... 'Small children know,' Leto…

— Frank Herbert

The thing that I think was very brave of my younger self was that he decided he would be an idiot. Just…

— Salman Rushdie

One recalls how much the creative impulse of the best-sellers depends upon self-pity. It is an emotion of great dramatic potential.

— V. S. Pritchett

“You can use your intelligence to fuel chronic anxiety and self-criticism, or you can use it to understand yourself”

— Vironika Tugaleva

One has to become absolutely responsible for oneself, and then one can understand the mind. If you go on depending on others,…

— Osho

The self... is not an organic thing that has a specific location, whose fundamental fate is to be born, to mature, to…

— Erving Goffman

It is the cry of the separate self, ‘What about me?’ As long as we keep acting from that place, it doesn’t…

— Charles Eisenstein

Goldilocks [There] lived a family of bearstogether anthropomorphically in a little cottage as a nuclear family. They were very sorry about this,…

— James Finn Garner

“Today is a new day and it brings with it a new set of opportunities for me to act on. I am…

— Idowu Koyenikan

Gideon was a force of nature, his magnetic self-possession so powerful it put everyone around him in his shadow. I saw flashes…

— Sylvia Day

No church group that knows spiritual warfare has wiener roasts or even passion plays. There is a real warfare. I have said…

— Leonard Ravenhill

Where does the ego get its energy? The ego feeds off your desire to be something else. You are poor and you…

— Rajneesh

The price that must be paid for mastery is discipline. No one achieves lasting success without it. So from the moment you…

— Robin Crow

For years and years you enter into samadhi every day in order to attain liberation. Eternity fashions a new self which you…

— Frederick Lenz

Self-esteem and identity are very fragile things. I think a lot of times, those are the motivations for why people do take…

— Nate Parker

All violence is an attempt to replace shame with self-esteem.

— James Gilligan

The master of any craft is first a master of self, cooperating with innate intelligence within.

— Bryant H. McGill

I have a combination of self-love and self-loathing, just like most people.

— Amy Landecker

“The worldly life (sansaar) means a museum of dependency.”

— Dada Bhagwan

Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.

— Bernie Siegel

Lend, by your imperfections, self-esteem to others, and you will be invited everywhere.

— Robert Breault

So the secret to good self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they're already met?

— Bill Watterson

You can't have self confidence without some real skills that enable you to be successful.

— Erik Weihenmayer

What I would like to say to my younger self is, 'You really need to accept the way you look.'

— Megan McKenna

In the supremacy of self-control consists one of the perfections of the ideal man.

— Herbert Spencer

If you're not happy about how you look, you have to question how much self-love you have.

— Tyrese Gibson

God Himself begins to live in me not only as my Creator but as my other and true self.

— Thomas Merton

The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

There is no self. There is nobody home. No forwarding address, no zip code. Address unknown.

— Frederick Lenz

Non-co-operation means nothing less than training in self-sacrifice.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Relax man we live to be forgotten, this day we live to later prove we existed.

— Edward Shaylitsa