Self Quotes · Page 96

Good governance needs self-discipline. Only discipline within can ensure discipline without.

— Narendra Modi

The lies most devastating to our self-esteem are not so much the lies we tell as the lies we live.

— Nathaniel Branden

The infinite is a light sleeper. The moment the self awakens, the force of the infinite begins to stir.

— John O'Donohue

Kindness is something that I feel is leaving us a little bit - people are getting more self-involved.

— Cobie Smulders

The most important thing, I've found, is to be self-reliant.

— Lee Radziwill

I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education.

— Ken Livingstone

Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action

— Jonathan Edwards

Believe in your self be for some one can believe in you !!

— Emily Thomas-Webb

It's the essence of a degenerating mind periodically, to lose all sense of continuous self, and therefore any regard for what others…

— Ian Mcewan

“I will be” is a confession that “I am not “ The Father's will is always “I AM.” Until you realize that…

— Neville Goddard

Self-criticism, cruel, unsparing criticism that goes to the very root of the evil, is life and breath for the proletarian movement.

— Rosa Luxemburg

“One can carry out the vyavahaar (the relative; worldly interactions) only to the extent of one's intrinsic nature.”

— Dada Bhagwan

I try to act like I don 't care but deep down inside I know you know I m just trying to…

— Sikhwetha Maanda Stanley

When we experience the power of the Self, there is an absence of fear, there is no compulsion to control, and no…

— Deepak Chopra

I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all…

— K. D. Lang

Self-denial is a kind of holy association with God; and, by making you his partner, interests you in all his happiness.

— Robert Boyle

It is in the capacity to love, that is to SEE, that the liberation of the soul from fantasy consists. The freedom…

— Iris Murdoch

To be born means being compelled to choose an era, a place, a life. To exist here, now, means to lost the…

— Hayao Miyazaki

I could not bear the deep freeze settling around my bones at the thought that yet another attempt to get out of…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

Touching hands are not like pharmaceuticals or scalpels. They are like flashlights in a darkened room. The medicine they administer is self-awareness.…

— Deane Juhan

Life is made up not necessarily of great sacrifices or high-level duties but of little things. The smiles, the kindnesses, the commitments…

— John Templeton

“Elliott was disarmingly bright, according to everyone who knew him, an avid reader of Dostoevsky, Kafka, Beckett, Stendhal, Freud, the Buddha, all…

— William Todd Schultz

Man is symbolic to the sun. The sun is dealing with a ball of fire and didn't go out yet. Me being…

— Rakim

All I know is when I start getting serious about songwriting... it's like a playground. All responsibilities slip away and you're with…

— Laura Nyro

Philip Martin has written a wise, compassionate, and nurturing guide through the self-oppression of depression.

— Harold H. Bloomfield

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately...

— Henry David Thoreau

“Everyone, in some small secret sanctuary of the self, is nuts.”

— Leo Rosten

“Laziness is always your fault. It is the sign that a man has persevered in uselessness for too long.”

— Idries Shah

It's not logical, self-realization. If it was, everybody would be self-realized because everybody is logical.

— Frederick Lenz

An adolescent is both an impulsive child and a self-starting adult.

— Mason Cooley

Stop trying to see what's going on inside someone else's window, and set your own household in order.

— Anonymous

“We are not deceiving anyone, we are only deceiving our own soul [our own Self].”

— Dada Bhagwan

Each person creates boundaries and walls around the self - this often keeps even happiness at bay.

— Govinda

Here is the paradox of Christian living. We must give up control of self to gain self control.

— Andy Mineo

Feelings are self-justifying, with a set of perceptions and "proofs" all their own.

— Daniel Goleman

One of the good things about accomplishing something is that it helps your self-image of yourself.

— Ann Reinking

Only God can judge me ... and because you're not God, perhaps you know what you should do ..

— Jaypee

The miracle of enlightenment is that you take the self and let it dissolve in the white light of eternity.

— Frederick Lenz

“Shrinking in a corner, pressed into the wall; do they know I'm present, am I here at all?”

— Lang Leav

Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.

— P. J. O'Rourke