Self Quotes · Page 219

“Your self…is other people, all the people you're tied to, and it's only a thread.”

— Tom Wolfe

Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing.

— Marie Chapian

The act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth.

— M. Scott Peck

When we really start to take a look at who we think we are, we become very grace prone.

— Adyashanti

“I closed my eyes, tried to get as far away from myself as I could.”

— Catherine Lacey

Be a lifelong student. The more you learn, the more you earn and the more self-confidence you will have.

— Brian Tracy

Don't ask for a cig' - I'm so self-centered, I won't even share this cancer.

— Joe Budden

We've seen a lot of people self-destruct because of a small taste of success.

— Shannon Hoon

I like Miracles. They inspire me. Miracles are the fun of enlightenment. When a teacher does a miracle, and everyone sees it,…

— Frederick Lenz

A critical key to achieving success lies in your ability to activate your potential to create the results you seek... start by…

— Lauren Mackler

Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it.

— Anonymous

To attain "success" without attaining positive self-esteem is to be condemned to feeling like an imposter anxiously awaiting exposure.

— Nathaniel Branden

You'll be a good parent when you're ready to no longer be selfish. Until I was about 35, it was all about…

— Lauren Holly

The way you become happy is by realizing that there is no self. No self at all, not a silly millimeter of…

— Frederick Lenz

“The true self is that which is in touch with reality. The false self is the aspects of your personality that are…

— Stefan Molyneux

It is self-evident that any and all paths must be open to a researcher during the actual course of his [or her]…

— Karl Weierstrass

Isn't it funny how the memories you cherish before a breakup can become your worst enemies afterwards? The thoughts you loved to…

— Anonymous

A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become…

— Freeman Dyson

The mind is running on all sides to think about many things, - what we call thoughts coming from outside. We must…

— Sri Aurobindo

One may desire a spurious respect and precedence among one's fellow monks, and the veneration of outsiders. "Both monks and laity should…

— Gautama Buddha

Our peasant music, naturally, is invariably tonal, if not always in the sense that the inflexible major and minor system is tonal.…

— Bela Bartok

Fantasy, in addition to being great storytelling, moves us at some unique and profound level. It has, I think, the power of…

— Lloyd Alexander

Scientists make mistakes. Accordingly, it is the job of the scientist to recognize our weakness, to examine the widest range of opinions,…

— Carl Sagan

So, to meditate is to purge the mind of its self-centered activity. And if you have come this far in meditation, you…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Figured Bass (Harmony) and Religion are self-contained things, one should not argue these.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

I like writing, but I write for self-improvement more than I do for money.

— Thomas Steinbeck

Meekness, the subtraction of self, reduces the multiplication of words.

— Neal A. Maxwell

An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect.

— Mark Twain

I've never been that person who has a lot of self-doubt.

— Lucy Bronze

There is no greater punishment than that of being abandoned to one's self.

— Pasquier Quesnel

“set me a task in witch i can put something of my very self and it is a task no longer,it is…

— Bliss Carman

“There is only one you. Stop trying to devalue yourself by trying to be a copy of someone else.”

— Susie Clevenger

I believe, in general, that even people that are self-pitying, you can feel for them.

— Mike White

Fear and niceness, the handmaids of all women, or more truly, woman its pretty self.

— William Shakespeare

In martial arts, the biggest enemy is self. Inside you struggle because you want to prove something.

— Jet Li

Patrimonial capitalism's legacy is that many people see reform as a euphemism for corruption and self-dealing.

— James Surowiecki

I'm such a self-critic, that I find it hard to give myself credit for something.

— Alexander Gustafsson

Bill Evans described his tunes as vehicles; they are vehicles for self-expression, or expression of the self.

— Kenny Werner

VWhatever you do, do it for yourself, and practice not worrying what anyone else thinks.

— Senoraroy

To have a friendship with God, all I really have to do is have a friendship with my Self.

— Neale Donald Walsch