Self Quotes · Page 222

A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt.

— Robert Sheckley

I think self-discipline is something, it's like a muscle. The more you exercise it, the stronger it gets.

— Daniel Goldstein

But Nightshirts aren't dangerous," Pippi assured her. "They don't bite anybody except in self defense.

— Astrid Lindgren

Characterization requires self-knowledge, insight into human nature . . . it is more than impersonation.

— Leon Surmelian

I don't believe in the myth of the "self made man". Nobody gets through alone.

— Dan Mangan

One can hardly think too little of one's self. One can hardly think too much of one's soul.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“A little bit of self-experimentation never hurt anybody, except when it did.”

— Daniel H. Wilson

The child builds his inmost self out of the deeply held impressions he receives.

— Maria Montessori

We feel the need to emphasize with greater clarity the obligation for members of the Church to become more independent and self…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

As incredible as it sounds, an unhappy man does not realize that happiness is better than unhappiness. Knowing only his own concealed…

— Vernon Howard

Sometimes it takes all my resolution and power of self-control to refrain from butting my head against the wall. I want to…

— Joseph Conrad

My dad was a self-taught stride piano player. The myth is - I don't whether it's true or not - that he…

— Mose Allison

To realize the Self involves an action, it implies that there is something to realize, that there is time, a temporal world,…

— Frederick Lenz

Men are self-confident because they grow up identifying with super-heroes. Women have bad self-images because they grow up identifying with Barbie.

— Rita Rudner

Love is the only rule in self-discovery. If you've forgotten that rule, you've forgotten everything. It's not what you can get; it's…

— Frederick Lenz

I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to…

— William Faulkner

Nowadays theologians aren't quite so straightforward as Paley. They don't point to complex living mechanisms and say that they are self-evidently designed…

— Richard Dawkins

I discovered for myself and by myself that there is no self to realize -- that's the realization I am talking about.…

— U.G. Krishnamurti

It is these undeniable qualities of human love and compassion and self-sacrifice that give me hope for the future. We are, indeed,…

— Jane Goodall

Making fun of fat people wont make you any thinner, and making fun of ugly people wont make you any prettier, and…

— Anonymous

Those who are successfully to lead their fellow-men, should have once possessed the nobler feelings. We have all known individuals whose magnanimity…

— Arthur Helps

What is it to be rich? It is to have an assured income in excess of expenditures, and to have no occasion…

— William Batchelder Greene

I had self-doubt about whether my story was interesting to people. I didn't want to write something that was anecdotal. It was…

— Lizz Winstead

Throughout their lives, women try to pummel their bodies into some phantom ideal shape that exists only with a lot of airbrushing.…

— Cynthia Heimel

A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.

— Jose Marti

The most amiable people are those who least wound the self-love of others.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.

— Bryant H. McGill

When we work with love we renew the spirit; that renewal is an act of self-love, it nurtures our growth.

— Bell Hooks

Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there.

— May Sarton

“You can reach maximum performance by engaging in physical activities.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

My belief is that most of the limitations people have or face are self-imposed.

— Rush Limbaugh

Your self-worth has nothing to do with your craft or calling, and everything to do with how you treat yourself.

— Kris Carr

For, know that each soul constantly meets its own self. No problem may be run away from. Meet it now!

— Edgar Cayce

Frustration, discouragement, and depression mean you are working against yourself.

— Jaggi Vasudev

My self-belief has always been there but it is about managing it the right way.

— Judd Trump

Nothing can be so bad as to be displeased with one's self.

— Helen Hunt Jackson

Robinson had a servant even better than Friday: His name was Crusoe.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It's self-centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity.

— John Templeton

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.

— Malcolm X

Too liberal self-accusations are generally but so many traps for acquittal with applause.

— Samuel Richardson