Self Quotes · Page 234

Humor is the opposite of all self-admiration and self-praise.

— Karl Barth

“Your other self is always sorry for you. But your other self grows on sorrow, so all is well”

— Kahlil Gibran

The last three films I've done are about self-immolation.

— Claire Forlani

Self-sacrifice, not self-assertion, is the law of the highest universe.

— Swami Vivekananda

The development of self-confidence starts with the elimination of this demon called fear.

— Napoleon Hill

The masses have no habit of self-reliance or original action.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our awareness of God starts where self-sufficiency ends.

— Harold S. Kushner

Don't treat your fans in a bad manner because its all about them which makes you survive

— Meekness Tapera

I really like writing heroes who aren't necessarily 'Hollywood handsome.' Personally, I think men who are self-confident, intelligent, and funny are outrageously…

— Suzanne Brockmann

Increasingly, people perceive no difference between the narcissistic self-serving reporters asking questions, and the narcissistic self-serving politicians who evade them.

— Michael Crichton

We conquer ourselves by learning patience, for she gives to us our longed for victory only in the surrender of self.

— Guy Finley

“To the extent that we retain the critical attitudes and destructive elements we have incorporated into our own personalities, we remain undifferentiated…

— Lisa Firestone

Low self-confidence is simply a problem of Awareness. Once you are aware of the Truth about yourself, you will be able to…

— Robert Anthony

We are the eyes of the cosmos. So that in a way, when you look deeply into somebody's eyes, you're looking deep…

— Alan Watts

A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.

— Al Goldstein

I rejoice when I hear of young men of virtue and talents, worthy to receive and likely to preserve the splendid inheritance…

— Thomas Jefferson

To me, that's the important issue about spiritual principle: that you recognize it as both that which saves you from the self-sabotaging…

— Marianne Williamson

She set about preparing her supper. It would have to be one of those classically simple meals, the sort that French peasants…

— Barbara Pym

We tell girls to be themselves, but then they have role models - sometimes too many role models - in popular culture…

— Sophie Gregoire Trudeau

You can't participate in agriculture or redesign of aircraft for making them safer if you know nothing about it. So, whenever a…

— Jacque Fresco

I can worship Nature, and that fulfills my need for miracles and beauty. Art gives a spiritual depth to existence -- I…

— Neil Peart

A 'treat' is different from a 'reward,' which must be justified or earned. A treat is a small pleasure or indulgence that…

— Gretchen Rubin

With a fractured sense of self, we come to depend on what people feed back to us - often mediated through social…

— Geoff Mulgan

Contrary to what you may think, an immoral act of any kind will only lower your self-esteem. Be true to yourselves, and…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

I meant to behave, but there were so many other options.

— Priyanka

The poorest education that teaches self-control is better than the best that neglects it.

— Dorothy Nevill

Thank you for this lovely blunt object that I will forevermore use as a weapon against self-doubt.

— Anne Hathaway

Often times I have hated in self-defense; if I were stronger I would not have used such a weapon.

— Anonymous

We all have a lifelong habit of inferiority to our full self..."

— William James

Self-Conquest is the greatest of victories. Mighty is he who conquers himself.

— Bruce Lee

The dominant mood of contemporary American culture is the self-celebration of the peasantry.

— William A. Henry III

People write memoirs - this is my take, anyway - out of a great sense of self-importance.

— Greil Marcus

“The restrain (saiyam) of kashay (anger-pride-deceit-greed) is called as saiyam [inner control].”

— Dada Bhagwan

“Living for myself ends at myself, and that is very small place to end.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Happiness is being at peace with yourself while the self is united with a larger order of things.

— Henryk Skolimowski

Turn off any self-talk that tells you that you are destined to live a small life. You're not.

— Loral Langemeier

I can't bear to be on a train without a book", she announced. " It's a form of self-defence in a way" .

— John Boyne

Faith in the self-attesting Christ of Scripture is the beginning, not the end result of wisdom.

— Greg L. Bahnsen

Gentleness towards self and others makes life a little lighter.

— Anonymous

The ego is the separate self through which the universal self can experience the adventure of living.

— Timothy Freke