Self Quotes

14166 quotes by 6503 authors

I find it difficult to feel responsible for the suffering of others. That's why I find war so hard to bear. It's the same with… — Alice Walker
My call for a spiritual revolution is not a call for a religious revolution. Nor is it a reference to a way of life that… — Dalai Lama
All knives and forks were working away at a rate that was quite alarming; very few words were spoken; and everybody seemed to eat his… — Charles Dickens
That which you or I think is most unique about ourselves we hide. In ordinary discourse, in the normal state, we share our common self,… — Robert E. Quinn
The industry is littered with self-styled purists who believe the business of media.. the requirement to make a profit.. somehow corrupts the craft. — Lachlan Murdoch
I have been privileged to grow up retaining the love of good journalism, the craft, while learning its business: the dollars and cents. I have… — Lachlan Murdoch
Perhaps the best place to begin with an integral approach to business is with.. oneself. In the Big Three of self, culture, and world, integral… — Ken Wilber
Let us subdue the ravages of the baser-self, and aspire to the higher calling of exalting joy through compassion, for that is the one true… — Bryant H. McGill
Love makes us instinctively reach out to God and other people. Lust, on the other hand, is anything but godly and celebrates self-indulgence. Love comes… — Jeffrey R. Holland
The nation was founded and "dedicated," to use Lincoln's language in the "Gettysburg Address," to equality as a "self-evident truth." But this very principle of… — Ronald Takaki
He could hardly imagine anymore what his life would be without the weight of his hidden knowledge. He'd come to think of it as a… — Kim Edwards
I always say about my daughters, they save me from my miserable self. They take me out, you know, a comedian, you could live in… — Chris Rock
My daughters, your daughters, our daughters deserve safety, protection, and the freedom to make their own choices about their personal lives and their physical selves. — Carre Otis
To wake up in England and have the newspaper on your front door with a headline that says, 'Ozzie's Beach Whale of a Daughter,' doesn't… — Kelly Osbourne
I shall not fear to say that the doctrine of self-interest rightly understood seems to me of all the philosophic theories the most appropriate to… — Alexis de Tocqueville
With my daughter, who at the time was one, my domestic life needed to take more precedent and really with my own self I needed… — Graham Coxon
Mr. President, passage of this bill will visit the heel of oppression on all the people, vitiate their constitutional shield against tyranny, and materially hasten… — Strom Thurmond
It behooves our citizens to be on their guard, to be firm in their principles, and full of confidence in themselves. We are able to… — Thomas Jefferson
A first attempt to recover the right of self government may fail, so may a second, a third, etc. But as a younger and more… — Thomas Jefferson
May [our Declaration of Independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to… — Thomas Jefferson

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