Self Quotes · Page 233

See If You Can Give Yourself Gifts That May Be True Blessings, Such As Self-Acceptance

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

We are all self-made, but only the successful will admit it.

— Earl Nightingale

The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit.

— David Lee Roth

Teenagers crave independence. The more self-suf-ficient we make them feel, the less hostile they are toward us.

— Haim Ginott

The race of the life is so long, you start it yourself ,and in the end , its only you with yourself.

— Senoraroy

A total acceptance of yourself brings about a total transcendence of yourself.

— Adyashanti

Self pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it, I cannot be used by God for his purpose in…

— Oswald Chambers

No Man Is Self-made. We Are All Products Of Relationship And Influence.

— Anonymous

I am not afraid of much. I kill all the spiders in my house, and I'm planning to go skydiving. I am…

— Elizabeth Banks

“your ego is nothing but a mean and cruel deceptive little freak living inside your head that will never bring joy and…

— Tony Horton

Love can never express itself by imposing sufferings on others. It can only express itself by self-suffering, by self-purification.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“We also self-inflict violence, because violence is our only way of relating to the world, to others and to ourselves.”

— Bryant McGill

Happiness must be shared. Selfishness it its enemy; to make another happy is to be happy one's self. It is quiet, most…

— William B. Ogden

As a human being you are capable of a higher level of perception than you may now be cognizant of. You are…

— Frederick Lenz

Actors think they're far more important than they are, and that can only lead to hurt. People with colossal self-importance have very…

— Julia Sawalha

Let us resist the opinion of the world fearlessly, provided only that our self-respect grows in proportion to our indifference.

— Sophie Swetchine

If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow…

— Terence McKenna

Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love.…

— Daniel Keyes

If I see myself on a worst-dressed list - and I've been on many of them - I tend to have low…

— Busy Philipps

Her Majesty's government is engaging not merely in Orwellian Newspeak but in self-defeating Orwellian Newspeak. The broader message it sends is that…

— Mark Steyn

When the mind is quiet, we come to know ourselves as the pure witness. We withdraw from the experience and its experiencer…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

I have seen that there are a number of people who benefit from doing loving kindness meditation, either prior to or along…

— Sharon Salzberg

The average beast of prey is a decent creature who merely kills for the sake of food or in a fight against…

— Gilbert Murray

I believe that there was a great age, a great epoch when man did not make war: previous to 2000 B.C. Then…

— D. H. Lawrence

Sometimes we keep our feelings to our self, because we know nobody would ever understand.

— Anonymous

I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.

— Werner Herzog

“I often paint self-portraits for it is I that know myself best-Freida Kahlo.”

— Anonymous

I'm hoping I can get in a position where I'm self-supporting from my own work.

— Bill Ward

One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

...You know the mistrust of heights is the mistrust of self, you don't know whether you're going to jump.

— Janet Fitch

Within each of us there is a Doctor hidden…As we Advice other but never implement the same for our own self…

— Santanu Mishra

Ceaseless work, analysis, reflection, writing much, endless self-correction, that is my secret.

— Johann Sebastian Bach

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

The support of one's personality is friends. A part of one's self and a real foundation and existence.

— Katharine Butler Hathaway

For in self-giving, if anywhere, we touch a rhythm not only of all creation but of all being.

— C. S. Lewis

“Agnan will not let one know 'Who he is,' and Gnan lets one know his own Self.”

— Dada Bhagwan

Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.

— Quincy Jones

Don’t be afraid of being unique. It’s like being afraid of your best self.

— Donald Trump

I have a theory that self-made, first-generation actresses don't feel entitled to success.

— Natasha Lyonne

Self-reinvention is an encouraging conceit. It is simply not always a possible one.

— Alissa Quart