Self Quotes

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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it. — Lord Byron
She is so totally absorbed in a vocation - both a gift and a mastering passion - that she has no time to be absorbed… — George Will
Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit… — Andrea Dworkin
Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval. — Mark Twain
Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism. Drunk with self-love,… — Camille Paglia
After about 30 minutes I puked all over my airplane. I said to my self, "Man, you made a big mistake." — Chuck Yeager
I have seen the vision and for self I cannot live; Life is less than worthless till my all I give. — Oswald J. Smith
If missions languish, it is because the whole life of godliness is feeble. The command to go everywhere and preach to everybody is not obeyed… — Arthur Tappan Pierson
Self-criticism is not "love," and it is certainly not indifferent. It's a form of hatred. And when I name that, when I see it for… — Danielle LaPorte
Poetry is a solitary process. One does not write poetry for the masses. Poetry is a self-involved, lofty pursuit. Songs are for the people. When… — Patti Smith
When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step aside;… — John Updike
The basis of good manners is self-reliance. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don't eat meat any more, I now eat rice cutlets. — Vladimir Lenin
The first question that offers itself is, whether the general form and aspect of the government be strictly republican? It is evident that no other… — James Madison
I don't want to be labeled as either a pansy or a heterosexual. Labeling is so self-limiting. We are what we do - not what… — Montgomery Clift
If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately finds… — Vaclav Havel
Self-confidence grows on trees, in other people's orchards. — Mignon McLaughlin
Positive thinking is no longer for drifters, dreamers and the perpetually naive. People who think positively see more opportunities, perform better, take more often correct… — Herman Van Rompuy

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