Self Quotes · Page 213

There isn't any real good reason for fighting except self-defense.

— Anonymous

I can feel my old self come out more and more in trainings.

— Charlie Davies

You combine hard work, creativity, and self-determination, and things start to happen.

— Sophia Amoruso

The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.

— Thomas a Kempis

Each man must live as an end in himself and follow his own rational self-interest.

— Ayn Rand

My playing style is very eccentric and mostly self taught.

— Steve Young

We will only hurt our self if we will try to be gods our selves.

— Senoraroy

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to…

— William Shakespeare

Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out.

— Eli Roth

Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and…

— Adrienne Rich

Part of why I was attracted to the idea of owning a gun was self-defense, and part of it was that I've…

— Jonathan Gottschall

No matter what, I need to maintain my sense of self and always be true to who I am. And that while…

— Lily Collins

You must accept the fact that there is no help but self-help. I cannot tell you how to gain freedom since freedom…

— Bruce Lee

What I wanted to try and figure out was, okay, in contemporary 21st century life the alienation between the self and the…

— DJ Spooky

We say being selfless is a really good thing, but if you think about it you're saying self-less, like without a self.…

— Aimee Lou Wood

I don't profess to be a healer, a minister, a priest. I feel as an entertainer I can do more good for…

— Liberace

LOGOMACHY, n. A war in which the weapons are words and the wounds punctures in the swim-bladder of self-esteem - a kind…

— Ambrose Bierce

That is part of why we must keep talking about Fannie Lou Hamer and about our history as a party and as…

— Leah D. Daughtry

Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning, that is to say, whose…

— Anonymous

There's often rarely any dialogue in a sex scene. With your fellow actor, it's good to talk about what the unspoken dialogue…

— Geoffrey Rush

Back in the autumn I had awakened to a growing darkness and cacophony, as if something in the depths were crying out.…

— Sue Monk Kidd

The web of hypocrisy of today hangs on the frontiers of two domains, between which our time swings back and forth, attaching…

— Max Stirner

These unwritten amenities have been in part responsible for giving our people the feeling of independence and self-confidence, the feeling of creativity.…

— William O. Douglas

People whose lives are barren and insecure seem to show a greater willingness to obey than people who are self-sufficient and self-confident.…

— Eric Hoffer

Good horror is about so much more than slashing: it's a way of examining grief and loss of self.

— Lucy Boynton

Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves.

— Marianne Williamson

“Selfishness at the expense of others is bad. Self-care for the betterment of others is good.”

— Richie Norton

I am a driven writer. I feel guilty if I don't write, not self-indulgent if I do.

— Marge Piercy

Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.

— Sue Monk Kidd

The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others.

— Eric Hoffer

COURAGE is not a quality you teach. Courage is the by-product of self-discipline. It is an ATTITUDE.

— Gerry Lindgren

I'm not the perfect guy but I know my self that I'm better to be perfect.

— AlexGman

“Eternal love’ (sanatan sneha) is indeed moksha [ultimate liberation].”

— Dada Bhagwan

Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly.

— Rumi

Birth-control through self-restraint is the most desirable, sensible and totally harmless method.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Respect for self only can bring you respect from others.

— Senora Roy

Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.

— Anonymous

I have fruit trees. Cows for fresh milk, yoghurt. My own wheat. I'm basically self-sufficient.

— Imran Khan

Change is continuous and the aggregate of the self is constantly shifting.

— Frederick Lenz

A peevish self-willed harlotry it is. *She’s a stubborn little brat.*

— William Shakespeare