Self Quotes · Page 217

Doom comes about because of neglecting to evaluate one's self and because of just following one's whims.

— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

The source of love isn’t in your self. It isn’t in your experience. It’s in you.

— John de Ruiter

Identity is memory; when memory disappears, the self dissolves and love with it.

— John Lahr

“Like it or not, we are all in business and the products we are selling is our unique selves.”

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

“If one 'understands' his own Self, he is himself a Parmatma (Absolute Supreme Soul).”

— Dada Bhagwan

Without changing one's self, without peace in one's self, world peace is not possible.

— Dalai Lama

Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.

— Imelda Marcos

What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship.

— Terry Tempest Williams

Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to…

— Abraham Lincoln

And this is the final meaning of work: the extension of human consciousness. The lesser meaning of work is the achieving of…

— D. H. Lawrence

When I get sent manuscripts from aspiring poets, I do one of two things: if there is no stamped self-addressed envelope, I…

— Philip Larkin

people's feelings about themselves change when they change the way they handle their money. Once they begin treating their money with respect,…

— Suze Orman

What is politeness in the home but the outcome of affection and self-respect, and the suppression of all those natural instincts of…

— Humphry Davy

“In renunciation, egoism is present; [but] there is no egoism in saiyam (a state in which there is absence of anger, pride,…

— Dada Bhagwan

Being a student in an art & design school, that was the moment for me, that was when I began to develop…

— Tim Gunn

Laughter... is like a hurricane: once it reaches a certain point, it becomes self-feeding, self-supporting. You laugh not because the jokes are…

— Stephen King

Having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our King and Country, a voyage…

— William Bradford

It's all about self-expression; you know, if you feel like a troll then you should look like a troll. It doesn't matter…

— James St. James

To become conscious of God, to become God's consciousness, to become God, to be God and to be beyond God, God being…

— Frederick Lenz

“It has been said that in every being there is another being and this being is the true self. Not a double.…

— Philip Davison

“Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation. To be humble is not to make comparisons.…

— Dag Hammarskjöld

You become self-conscious and you begin to criticize yourself so much and watch yourself, and I don't want to ever do that.…

— Jackee Harry

“But do you imagine there’s a certain type of person in the world who conforms to the idea of a ‘bad person'?…

— Natsume Sōseki

I have never understood why they tried to start the revolution by taking over the universities. It should have been self-evident that…

— Muriel Beadle

For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit.

— Robert Genn

The relationship with yourself is the most important relationship you’ll ever have.

— Judith Orloff

Self-discipline is a rigorous process at best; too many of us want it to be effortless and painless.

— Thomas S. Monson

Beauty means expression and being your most authentic self.

— Paloma Elsesser

Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.

— Elbert Hubbard

To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I really hate being self-conscious—and being conscious of being self-conscious

— Natalie Portman

Righteousness cannot be born until self-righteousness is dead.

— Bertrand Russell

Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.

— Charles Caleb Colton

He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Sometimes we know who we want to be and what we want to do long... long before we know how to get…

— Patti Callahan Henry

The real key to health and happiness and success is self knowledge

— Laozi

One is given to self-dramatization from time to time. I intend to live forever.

— Leonard Cohen

Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore.

— David Levithan

Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.

— Jasper Fforde

You being insecure proves you got no self confidenceSort it out.

— Solace Sowah