S Self Quotes

29 quotes by 28 authors

• True compassion is about not bruising the other person’s self-respect. — Naoki Higashida
• To read a lot of trash mixing the blood of war with business’s stench. To root out any happiness. To go out, and down, and… — Etel Adnan
• How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself! — Charles Lamb
• When all my endeavor is turned toward Thee because all Thy endeavor is turned toward me; when I look unto Thee alone with all my… — Nicholas of Cusa
• The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self. — Maria Montessori
• The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self. Adults work to finish a task, but the child works in… — Maria Montessori
• Hair brings one’s self-image into focus; it is vanity’s proving ground. Hair is terribly personal, a tangle of mysterious prejudices — Shana Alexander
• Writing isn’t a career choice. It’s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off. — Alain de Botton
• With emotional abuse, the insults, insinuations, criticism, and accusations slowly eat away at the victim’s self-esteem until he or she is incapable of judging a… — Beverly Engel
• It’s self-full to be first, to be as good as possible to you. To take care of you, keep you whole and healthy. That doesn’t… — Iyanla Vanzant
• It is better to be an outcast, a stranger in one’s own country, than an outcast from one’s self. It is better to see what… — Chris Hedges
• I suspect it is for one’s self-interest that one looks at one’s surroundings and one’s self. This search is personally born and is indeed my… — Lee Friedlander
• Put it down in capital letters: SELF-DEVELOPMENT IS A HIGHER DUTY THAN SELF-SACRIFICE. The thing that most retards and militates against women’s self development is… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to work… — V.S. Naipaul
• I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado or ceremony, than feed upon turkey… — Miguel de Cervantes
• With constant practice, one can improve his physical body and mental attitude rapidly, thereby igniting the higher motives of making one’s self useful to himself… — Dharma Mittra
• To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
• The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss… — Soren Kierkegaard
• Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self when one does not lack wit and is familiar with all the niceties of language. Language… — George Sand
• Everything turns out to be valuable that one does for one’s self without thought of profit. — Marguerite Yourcenar

Who Wrote These S Self Quotes

28 authors contributed a total of 29 S Self Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 2 S Self Quotes by Maria Montessori
• 1 S Self Quote by Chris Hedges
• 1 S Self Quote by Lee Friedlander
• 1 S Self Quote by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• 1 S Self Quote by V.S. Naipaul
• 1 S Self Quote by Miguel de Cervantes
• 1 S Self Quote by Dharma Mittra
• 1 S Self Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero
• 1 S Self Quote by Soren Kierkegaard
• 1 S Self Quote by George Sand
• 1 S Self Quote by Marguerite Yourcenar
• 1 S Self Quote by George Carlin
• 1 S Self Quote by George Eliot
• 1 S Self Quote by Julia Quinn
• 1 S Self Quote by Edith Wharton
• 1 S Self Quote by Rick Riordan
• 1 S Self Quote by Charles Yu
• 1 S Self Quote by Frances Hardinge
• 1 S Self Quote by Zelda Fitzgerald
• 1 S Self Quote by Aldous Huxley
• 1 S Self Quote by Naoki Higashida
• 1 S Self Quote by Etel Adnan
• 1 S Self Quote by Charles Lamb
• 1 S Self Quote by Nicholas of Cusa
• 1 S Self Quote by Shana Alexander