Self Quotes · Page 227

The principle of self defense is an American tradition that began at Lexington and Concord.

— Robert F. Williams

“The self must know stillness before it can discover its true song.”

— Ralph Brum

I'm self-conscious in photo shoots. I much prefer to do interviews and talk about the work.

— Joseph Morgan

Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as poetry.

— Anais Nin

We are immortal life. Think of the opportunity of self-realization. What a gas!

— Frederick Lenz

“You can become anything that you want to be but the goal is for you to become your best self.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Bob Bly is among the most accomplished self-employed copywriters in recent years.

— Steve Slaunwhite

Self-realization is not the awareness that this world is a dream, that's a part of self-realization.

— Frederick Lenz

“Identity claims are either directed toward others or directed at the self, and both kinds have their own psychological functions.”

— Sam Gosling

My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want…

— Flip Wilson

There's a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It's not something you can give; it's something they have to…

— Randy Pausch

But then, how could you have any self-respect knowing that you didn't believe in anything exactly? How did you embrace what was…

— Kiran Desai

“Love yourself. Don’t worry about what others say, think, or feel about you. They didn’t create you, do not own you, and…

— Dina Redmon

While overeating would be seen by some as an indulgence of self, it is in fact a profound rejection of self. It…

— Marianne Williamson

We're killers, all of us: We kill our lives, our past selves, the things that mattered. We bury them under slogans and…

— Lauren Oliver

There is no such thing as living alone, for all living is relationship; but to live without direct relationship demands high intelligence,…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

For instance, I may bring a certain feminist perspective to my songwriting, because that's how I see life. I'm interested in art,…

— Laura Nyro

This is the humbling truth that lies at the heart of Christianity. We love to be our own saviors. Our hearts love…

— Timothy Keller

Never underestimate the power of temptation to disarm your better senses. Throughout the ages good people surrendered their honor for the empty…

— Michael Josephson

...Conservatives have excellent credentials to speak about human rights. By our efforts, and with precious little help from self-styled liberals, we were…

— Margaret Thatcher

Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what…

— George Orwell

I feel self-conscious for even having met so many other band people and artists, I don't want to be that artist that…

— Laura Jane Grace

“My dear friends, from the devil's standpoint there is not the slightest difference between being puffed up with pride in yourself or…

— Martyn Lloyd-Jones

To submit to chance is to reveal the self and its obsessions.

— Charles Simic

The purpose of the false self is to defend against pain - not deal with reality

— Robert W. Firestone

I go fishing for a thousand monsters in the depths of my own self

— Soren Kierkegaard

Our self-love can less bear to have our tastes than our opinions condemned.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking.

— John Dewey

You are One with everything. When you are clear about this, your definition of self-interest will change.

— Neale Donald Walsch

Friendship allows you to see your own life but with a second sympathetic self.

— David Brooks

Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense.

— L.E. Modesitt Jr

“Our self-worth is not who we know or what we know. Our self-worth is in what we do.”

— Ron Baratono

The only thing I hate worse than prophecy is self-fulfilling prophecy

— Bill Maher

True enlightenment is nothing but the nature of one's own self being fully realized.

— Dalai Lama

You have to make decisions for yourself before you can make decisions with someone.

— Anonymous

“I curse the sadness of my bottomless heart that made the song called “I”.”

— Akiko Yanagiwara

For God's sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.

— Anton Chekhov

As for me, then, I love life and cultivate it just as God has been pleased to grant it to us.

— Michel de Montaigne

Well, the real Eric Bogosian is pretty self-conscious of himself.

— Eric Bogosian