Self Quotes · Page 92

Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.

— Theodore Parker

Having a baby dragged me, kicking and screaming, from the world of self-absorption.

— Paul Reiser

Maybe love is just about finding the person you can be your weird self with.

— Matt Haig

Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels.

— Barbara Tuchman

What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are.

— Edgar Friedenberg

the mysterious moment of death proves to be a moment of waking. How one longs to take it for one's self!

— Sarah Orne Jewett

“A self-leader looks around for problems, and then thinks deep to device solutions to them.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their oneness.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The difference between the university graduate and the autodidact lies not so much in the extent of knowledge as in the extent…

— Milan Kundera

The known unseen within becomes structural in what is seen: a being functioning as a self, in person, in this world.

— John de Ruiter

Get through the moment. Avoid confrontation. Run away. That's pretty much how we get through our own lives, watching television. Smoking crap.…

— Chuck Palahniuk

It's intrusive for grandparents to think they're in charge. It's manipulative. Also, it's self-destructive, since if the parents have to resist you,…

— Anne Lamott

Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery.

— Steven Pressfield

Who has magnificent self-confidence And fears nothing that exists? The man who has attained to truth And lives free of error.

— Dalai Lama

If we can look upon our work not for self-benefit,but as a means to benefit society,we will be practicing appreciation and patience…

— Gautama Buddha

Mystical identification transcends the aristocratic virtue of courageous self-sacrifice. It is self- surrender in a higher, more complete, and more complete and…

— Paul Tillich

Radical self-care is quantum, and radiates out into the atmosphere, like a little fresh air. It is a huge gift to the…

— Anne Lamott

Anger and bitterness are two noticeable signs of being focused on self and not trusting God's sovereignty in your life. When you…

— John C. Broger

Even the Atheists... readily acknowledge it for an indubitable truth, that there must be something... which was never made or produced -…

— Ralph Cudworth

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched,…

— Mary Webb

Among the few I have indicated, is there no dynamic man of action, the rebel who will help determine the aspect of…

— Piet Zwart

Self Esteem::"It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Parents who engage in this kind of [conscious] parenting understand the power of being present being mindful to take the time to…

— Shefali Tsabary

When I read the pilot for Married with Children, it just reminded me of my Uncle Joe... just a self-deprecating kind of…

— Ed O'Neill

I don't like catching myself in the mirror because it's like, 'Oh, self.'

— Lisa Brennan-Jobs

I don't regret the decisions or direction I've chosen, but I feel it's important to be self aware.

— Jacob Bannon

The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control.

— Herbert Spencer

To make yourself something less than you can be - that too is a form of suicide

— Benjamin Lichtenberg

Honer and self sacrifice. Death does not diminish these qualities in a soldier. We shall remember.

— Anonymous

We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history.

— Norman Lear

I get self-conscious and I get insecure, as everybody else does, but I try not to show that.

— Charli D'Amelio

Self discipline is a facilitator for many things in your life. Its hard to get but great to have.

— Senoraroy

Truly enlightened people never seek to be like others. Rather, they seek to be superior to their former selves.

— Robin Sharma

“Your relationship to yourself is and always will be directly reflected in all your relationships with others.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

Thinking too much of what others think of you ultimately changes what you think of yourself.

— Anonymous

Be the same still mountain self and mountain peace no matter what the external conditions.

— Anonymous

Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men.

— Christopher Morley

When we weren't being transcendent we specialized in self-inflicted disaster.

— Slash

“It is called Purusharth (real spiritual effort) if it certainly becomes fruitful!”

— Dada Bhagwan

“He is prepared, each day, to confront his own self-sabotage.”

— Steven Pressfield