Own Self Quotes

328 Own Self quotes by 264 unique authors

This above all; to thine own self be true. — William Shakespeare
People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world. — John Stossel
Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of… — Thomas Szasz
He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse… — Ali ibn Abi Talib
Admiration from my readers inspire me, and the only 'formula' I believe in towards making a good writer is: 'to thine own self be true!' — Ashwin Sanghi
We should be telling girls what they already know but rarely see affirmed: that the lives they lead inside their own self-contained bodies; the skills… — Naomi Wolf
One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error. — Hermann Hesse
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the… — Orson Scott Card
Can't get away from your own self. — Holly Black
The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation that the relation relates itself to… — Soren Kierkegaard
in addition to the conditions under which life is given to man on earth, and partly out of them, men constantly create their own, self-made… — Hannah Arendt
That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst. — Jean-Paul Sartre
When a woman starts to disentangle herself from patriarchy, ultimately she is abandoned to her own self. — Sue Monk Kidd
What I saw wasn't a ghost. It was simply--myself. I can never forget how terrified I was that night, and whenever I remember it, this… — Haruki Murakami
DESTINY is a feeling you have that you know something about yourself nobody else does. The picture you have in your own mind of what… — Bob Dylan
Our actions in this world, and our ability to rise above the limits of our own self-interest, live on far beyond us and play their… — Kent Nerburn
In reality, every reader is, while reading, the reader of his own self. — Marcel Proust
I sat there for three hours and did not feel the time or the boredom of our talk and its foolish disconnection. As long as… — Anais Nin
There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world… — Thomas Mann
Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names. It was love lashed by its own… — Khalil Gibran
Let your vision be world embracing rather than confined to your own self. — BahÃ¡'u'llÃ¡h
Deep within the individual is a vast reservoir of untapped power awaiting to be used. no person can have the use of all this potential… — Norman Vincent Peale
This business of really knowing people, deep down, including your own self, it is not something you can learn in school or from a book.… — James Howe
I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul — Alfred Lord Tennyson
I suddenly realized. The zebra. It is not something outside of us. The zebra is something inside of us. Our fears. Our own self-destructive nature.… — Garth Stein

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