Own Self Quotes

328 Own Self quotes by 264 unique authors

The simplest spiritual discipline is some degree of solitude and silence. But it's the hardest, because none of us want to be with someone we… — Richard Rohr
Every man and woman in society has one big duty. That is, to take care of his or her own self. This is a social… — William Graham Sumner
The only measures that count are progress over your own self, and triumph over the vacant abstractions that most people mistake for thinking. — Kenny Smith
All money represents theft… To steal from the rich is a sacred and religious act. While looting, a man to his own self is true. — Jerry Rubin
The process of finding happiness within one's own Self may be difficult and slow but it cannot be found anywhere else. — Swami Parthasarathy
Fear creates its own self-fulfilling dynamic- as people give into it, they lose energy and momentum. Their lack of confidence translates into inaction that lowers… — Robert Greene
Just know on the inside that you won't quit. That's it. There is nothing else. Shakespeare said, 'To thine own self be true'. I don't… — Forrest Griffin
Surrender to your own self, of which everything is an expression. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes. — Viktor E. Frankl
Your own self is your ultimate teacher. The outer teacher is merely a milestone. It is only your inner teacher that will walk with you… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Meet you own self. Be with your own self, listen to it, obey it, cherish it, keep it in mind ceaselessly. You need no other… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
While you can't keep your heart from getting broken, you can stop breaking your own heart...once you realize the difference between what you can control… — Leigh Newman
To run away from danger, instead of facing it, is to deny one's faith in man and God, even one's own self. It were better… — Mahatma Gandhi
Well, when Christ comes back this time, I hope He comes back mad His own self. I hope He drives the Jim Crowers out of… — Langston Hughes
Yes, yes; you’ve read thousands of books but you’ve never tried to read your own self; you rush into your temples, into your mosques, but… — Bulleh Shah
We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth… — A. Bartlett Giamatti
The man who is kind and who practices righteousness, who remains passive against the affairs of the world, who considers all creatures on earth as… — Kabir
The whole dear notion of one's own Self-marvelous old free-willed, free- enterprising, autonomous, independent, isolated island of a Self- is a myth. — Lewis Thomas
It's a career that's enticing because you go on stage, for example, and people clap. You get that affirmation, but you can't go into acting… — Miranda Otto
Loving oneself isn't hard, when you understand who and what 'yourself' is. It has nothing to do with the shape of your face, the size… — Phylicia Rashad
You are complete. Completion has taken place in you eons ago. Accept yourself. Enjoy yourself. This time will never be again, so fulfill the moment… — Frederick Lenz
Let a person only approach his or her own self with a deep respect, even reverence for all that the creative soul, the God-mystery within… — D. H. Lawrence
Inside your own self pity there you swim, in sinking down to drown her voice still haunts you, and only with your laughter can you… — Joni Mitchell
I must first know myself, as the Delphian inscription says; to be curious about that which is not my concern, while I am still in… — Socrates
Like blind hens, we are ignorant of our own self and the depths within us. — Johannes Tauler

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