Self Quotes · Page 231

To know one's self is wisdom, but to know one's neighbor is genius.

— Minna Antrim

Self-criticism is an art not many are qualified to practice.

— Joyce Carol Oates

What we seek in love is finding someone with whom we feel safe to reveal our true self.

— Karen Salmansohn

Reading the [The Verso Book of Dissent] is like encountering the best version of our angry selves.

— Jonathan Messinger

I refuse to follow the rules where society tries to control people with low self esteem.

— Kanye West

I am easy-going right up to the borders of my self-interest.

— Mason Cooley

This civilization is such that one has only to be patient and it will be self-destroyed.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Being your self its all a takes if you want to be impressed someone dont be some one else just be your…

— Selena

We [americans] self-regulate ourselves, we self-censor ourselves a lot in this country instead of having someone else censor us so we can…

— Serj Tankian

The boundary line between self and external world bears no relation to reality; the distinction between ego and world is made by…

— Norman O. Brown

Fresh wounds," said Angua. "But one of them did shoot one of the other in the leg by accident." "I think you'd…

— Terry Pratchett

I hope the Church will examine what is good and what is ill, and what good could be achieved by getting the…

— Andrew Solomon

Volunteer activities can foster enormous leadership skills. The nonprofit professional volunteer world is a laboratory for self - realization.

— Madeleine M. Kunin

Competition in its best form is a test of self. It has nothing to do with medals. The winner is the person…

— Al Oerter

“To become God (Khuda) one does not need weapons. One needs to recognize his [True] Self (Khud). The one who knows one’s…

— Dada Bhagwan

Apart from anything else, in the most genuinely self-deprecating way, I find it very hard to watch myself on screen, whatever you…

— Ulrika Jonsson

“When certain circumstances of the body tend to happen, the time for insolvency begins. Everything indeed is going to go into insolvency.…

— Dada Bhagwan

To be willing to live within the imagination is to commit oneself to the gathering together of the pieces that might begin…

— Deena Metzger

Healing the self means committing ourselves to a wholehearted willingness to be what and how we are-beings frail and fragile, strong and…

— Paula Gunn Allen

Self-denial is taught much better by inspiring the love of our neighbor, than by the prohibition of innocent comforts and pleasures. Spirituality…

— Harriet Martineau

None of this is fair to you. And should it continue, it will make it more difficult to keep attracting the kind…

— Barack Obama

The God of the Bible is the God of liberation rather than oppression; a God of justice rather than injustice; a God…

— Allan Boesak

When a school introduces and trains each child of society into membership within such a little community, saturating him with the spirit…

— John Dewey

You have a certain objectivity, as a member of the audience, and you can come away maybe being provoked into a certain…

— Colin Farrell

The basis of self-discipline: Don't allow the edges to blur.

— Michael Johnson

The only one who gets to canoodle in my bedroom is my magnificent self.

— Cassandra Clare

Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea.

— Christopher Hitchens

A Self-realized person does not depend on anybody except God for anything.

— Kavinder Kanwar

“Pride can be friend, ego can be foe...depending on which one we choose, or not, to conquer.”

— T.F. Hodge

The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world.

— Anais Nin

Some people have an identity. I have an alibi. I have a shadow self.

— Andre Aciman

I never want to end up being a self-centered, vain human being.

— Taylor Swift

This is the nature of going forward into being: A series of self-transforming ascents of level.

— Terence McKenna

The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-sat-isfied man.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Humility leads to the highest distinction, because it leads to self-improvement.

— Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet

I'am not who you want to be, but I'm who you can't be, Respect yourself and everybody respect you.

— MedMed

And if you ever need self-validation, Just meet me in the alley by the railway station

— Anonymous

The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everyone has an enemy but no ones biggest enemy is them self your inner me

— Richard Reyes

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

— Richard Cecil