Self Quotes
14166 quotes by 6503 authors
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
— Aristotle
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One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
— Arthur Ashe
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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
— Isaac Asimov
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Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
— Francis of Assisi
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That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it to us holds.
— Mary Astell
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Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
— Nancy Astor
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It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us about the first…
— David Attenborough
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Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.
— Dean Acheson
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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The…
— Marcus Aurelius
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What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!
— Jane Austen
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We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen…
— Paul Auster
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All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits that shape memories,…
— Diane Ackerman
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A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he…
— Irving Babbitt
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Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and…
— Irving Babbitt
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It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's…
— Francis Bacon
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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of…
— Francis Bacon
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Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high.…
— Erykah Badu
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You never find yourself until you face the truth.
— Pearl Bailey
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I was a very self-righteous 15-25 year old. Anyway, I wake up every morning and thank God I'm not a kid anymore.
— Annie Baker
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