Self Quotes · Page 99

My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what's mine.

— Kevin Hart

…it is so much better to work for others than for one's self alone.

— Louisa May Alcott

Knowing what you admire in others is a wonderful mirror into your deepest, as yet unborn, self.

— Gretchen Rubin

“Self-discovery is a slower process but a more natural one.”

— Alfred Brendel

There is a huge contrast between what others think who I am and my real self.

— Sherlyn Chopra

Let America realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty.

— Richard Cushing

What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?

— William Law

Being a vegan just helps me build up my self-esteem. I feel good about it every time I eat a meal.

— Steve-O

“You see how self-love keeps us from knowing our own defects of mind and body. Our reason tries in vain to show…

— Andrew Lang

Jewish success is due to a culture that promotes excellence, blessed with self discipline, education, dedication and a quest for leaving this…

— Nonie Darwish

Why is it, I wondered, that old people are always so self-centered and excitable? But I just smiled benignly and stood back,…

— Bill Bryson

I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have…

— Oprah Winfrey

“What is moksha (the ultimate liberation)? A change in vision should occur. The Gnani Purush (the enlightened one) can help you attain…

— Dada Bhagwan

“The essence of human life is to come into one’s nature of the Self (Soul), get awakened and remain only in ‘Self’.”

— Dada Bhagwan

Bring your whole self to work. I don't believe we have a professional self Monday through Friday and a real self the…

— Sheryl Sandberg

Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the…

— Aaron Copland

He made his colours, built his stretchers, plastered his canvas, painted his pictures, carpentered his frames, and painted them. 'Too bad I…

— Irving Stone

You can describe [Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self] as a manifesto of sorts. I saw it…

— Kerry James Marshall

I have asserted the right of Negroes to meet the violence of the Ku Klux Klan by armed self-defense — and have…

— Robert F. Williams

It's a matter of whether you see the self as fundamentally in relationship to other selves or not - whether you see…

— Gish Jen

People who want a sane, static, measurable world take the first aspect of an event or person and stick to it, with…

— Anais Nin

I have never got on with the quietist movements: they lapse too easily into self-congratulations: I have found the oneness, you have…

— Fay Weldon

The most important enemy for everyone is their own illusion that makes them unrealistic or exaggerates their sense of self-importance in the…

— Robert Thurman

It is possible to be honest every day. It is possible to live so that others can trust us-can trust our words,…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

I honor those who try to rid themselves of any lying, who empty the self and have only clear being there.

— Rumi

Be led by your talent, not by your self-loathing; those other things you just have to manage.

— Russell Brand

Perhaps the greatest self-deceit is to tell ourselves that we can be self-sufficient.

— Joseph Stowell

My parents instilled in me a sense of self that I was more than just a diagnosis or a condition.

— Zach Anner

To go beyond karma you have to end the structure of self.

— Frederick Lenz

The more deeply we are our true selves, the less self is in us.

— Meister Eckhart

Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself.

— Morarji Desai

“Maybe it was better to be who he thought I was than who I thought I was.”

— Deb Caletti

To search for truth about self is as valuable as to search for truth in other areas of life.

— Karen Horney

People would be less self absorbed if they just took more time to think about- me.

— Lance Reynard

Self-doubt creates the impetus for learning but hinders adept use of previously established skills

— Albert Bandura

I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.

— Ira Glass

Pain and suffering are two completely difference experiences. Pain is unavoidable. Suffering is self-created.

— Noah Levine

It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do.

— Anthony Trollope

Poetry connects you to yourself, to the self that doesn't know how to talk or negotiate.

— Rita Dove

“Transformation of the self are related to where you are, and identity Is dependent on others.”

— Siri Hustvedt