Self Quotes

14166 quotes by 6503 authors

Being gifted intellectually is only a small part of the equation of success. Concentrate on the factors you have control over: persistence, self-discipline, confidence. Far… — Terry Bradshaw
We all have the tendency to believe self-doubt and self-criticism, but listening to this voice never gets us closer to our goals. Instead, try on… — Kelly McGonigal
Remorse presupposes enough self-forgetfulness to feel the pain ofothers. — Helen Prejean
Life is creation - self and circumstances, the raw material. — Dorothy Richardson
The correct description is that we try every day to become more humble when we talk about divinity, we try to realize how little we… — John Templeton
The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea. — John Templeton
It's self-centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity. — John Templeton
... the estranged self, hidden with its inexhaustible potential, lies undiscovered by many people who die without even knowing that it exists. — Kazuo Chiba
Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will… — Anita Brookner
The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side,… — Pope John Paul II
Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and pride in… — H. L. Mencken
Be congruent, be authentic, be your true self. — Mahatma Gandhi
A recurring image in the work of the Rossetti circle was that of a woman absorbed in self-contemplation, gazing into a mirror or combing her… — Elizabeth Prettejohn
Your self-esteem has never been hurt before, right? Don't be so full of yourself then. — Kim A-joong
I'm awash in self-contempt! — Woody Allen
Today when the public thinks of the products of science it is likely to think about environmental problems, an unproductive armament industry, careless or dishonest… — Leo Kadanoff
There is nothing so lowering to one's self-esteem as the affectionate contempt of a beloved cat. — Monica Edwards
Love is not 'blind' but visionary: It sees into the very heart of its object And sees the 'real self' behind and in the midst… — Andras Angyal

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