Self Quotes

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The experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego. — Carl Jung
There is, howÂever, a strong empirÂiÂcal reaÂson why we should culÂtiÂvate thoughts that can never be proved. It is that they are known to be… — Carl Jung
When the other person is hurting, confused, troubled, anxious, alienated, terrified; or when he or she is doubtful of self-worth, uncertain as to identity, then… — Carl Rogers
It is that the individual has within him or herself vast resources for self-understanding, for altering the self-concept basic attitudes, and his or her self-directed… — Carl Rogers
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a… — Abraham Maslow
When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of… — Abraham Maslow
There seems no intrinsic reason why everyone shouldn't be (self-actualising). Apparently every baby has possibilities for self-actualisation, but most get it knocked out of them… — Abraham Maslow
Also in contemporary Western society the union with the group is the prevalent way of overcoming separateness. It is a union which the individual self… — Erich Fromm
Self-efficacy is the belief in one's capabilities to organize and execute the sources of action required to manage prospective situations. — Albert Bandura
Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure. — Albert Bandura
If self-efficacy is lacking, people tend to behave ineffectually, even though they know what to do. — Albert Bandura
The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directedness serve one well over time. — Albert Bandura
If human emotions largely result from thinking, then one may appreciably control one's feelings by controlling one's thoughts - or by changing the internalized sentences,… — Albert Ellis
A self is a repertoire of behavior appropriate to a given set of contingencies. — B.F. Skinner
Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The self is the modern substitute for the soul. — Allan Bloom
The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry, to equanimity, receptivity, and peace, is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes… — William James
To denounce does not free the self from what it hates, any more than ignoring the past shuts off its influence. — Jacques Barzun
India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs,… — Will Durant
To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self. — Joan Didion

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