His Self Quotes

90 His Self quotes by 75 unique authors

Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause. He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made… — Richard Francis Burton
The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed." "I suppose one could say that Hitler didn't betray his self."… — John Fowles
The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in… — Bell Hooks
Give a man or woman back his self-respect, and in most cases-not all, but most-you also give back that person's ability to think with at… — Stephen King
He lost his Self a thousand times and for days on end he dwelt in non-being. But although the paths took him away from Self,… — Hermann Hesse
she was aware of his love - how could she not? She perceived it every time he looked at her. He was not demonstrative, but… — Cecilia Dart-Thornton
The grandiose person is never really free; first because he is excessively dependent on admiration from others, and second, because his self-respect is dependent on… — Alice Miller
He ran as he'd never run before, with neither hope nor despair. He ran because the world was divided into opposites and his side had… — Karl Marlantes
I was not really angry: I felt for him all the time, and longed to be reconciled; but I determined he should make the first… — Anne Bronte
Depending on the year or the therapist he was seeing, he'd learned to ascribe just about every facet of his character as a psychological reaction… — Jeffrey Eugenides
The name, his true name, was weaker and more flawed than he would have liked, and he hated himself for that, but there was also… — Christopher Paolini
You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth… — Leonardo da Vinci
Not selfishness, but precisely the absence of a self. Look at them. The man who cheats and lies, but preserves a respectable front. He knows… — Ayn Rand
The very freedom which the sinner supposedly exercises in his self-indulgence is only another proof that he is ruled by the tyrant. — Fulton J. Sheen
I, also, would like to look and smile, sit and walk like that, so free, so worthy, so restrained, so candid, so childlike and mysterious.… — Hermann Hesse
To be ourselves we must have ourselves – possess, if need be re-possess, our life-stories. We must “recollect” ourselves, recollect the inner drama, the narrative,… — Oliver Sacks
The basis of the self is not thought but suffering, which is the most fundamental of all feelings. While it suffers, not even a cat… — Milan Kundera
It sounds strange, somewhat on the line between irony and absurdity, to think that people would rather label and judge something as significant as each… — Erin Gruwell
The fact is, if a young man is naturally indolent, the spur of necessity will drive him but a very little way, while the having… — James Payn
What is your Self? Self is nothing but joy. A joyous person is definitely a person who has got his Self expressing through his joy.… — Nirmala Srivastava
The clearer the rules and the limits enforced by parents, the higher the child's self-esteem. The more freedom the child had, the lower his self-esteem. — Martin Seligman
A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificiant by and by. The Alps and the glaciers together are able to take… — Mark Twain
He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar. — Zhuangzi
The city Babel is the Ham-like man, who builds this city upon the earth; the tower is his self-chosen god, and divine worship. All reason-taught,… — Jakob Bohme
The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge… — Daniel Bell

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