Self Quotes

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Lawyers on TV always tell their clients not to say anything. The cops say that thing: 'Anything you say will be used against you.' Self-incrimination.… — Laurie Halse Anderson
There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance--do not sacrifice that to anything else. — John D. Rockefeller
Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it. — Simone de Beauvoir
Only in the crucible of self-mastery can freedom be smelted — Tariq Ramadan
Knowledge of one's identity, one's self, community, nation, religion, and God, is the true meaning of resurrection, while ignorance of it signifies hell. — Elijah Muhammad
Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The reality is that financial markets are self-destabilizing; occasionally they tend toward disequilibrium, not equilibrium. — George Soros
I would warn any minority student today against the temptations of self-segregation: take support and comfort from your own group as you can, but donâ€™t… — Sonia Sotomayor
All emerge from that One Whose Being is ever present and Whose Life, robed in numberless forms, is manifest throughout all creation. Creation is the… — Ernest Holmes
Self-expression is the dominant necessity of human nature. — Dale Carnegie
In time, we lose our freshness and spontaneity of true conversation. These are areas in which everyone interested in self-improvement will seek to improve. — Dale Carnegie
Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy. — Holly Lisle
Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours to tell the truth. — Ingmar Bergman
I hate exercising self-control. — Kate Upton
This little separate self must die. Then we shall find that we are in the Real, and that Real is God, and He is our… — Swami Vivekananda
Iâ€™m not perfect. I never identified with the way I look; I was just born this way. I donâ€™t feel rejection if Iâ€™m not the… — Erin Heatherton
Apparently Brooklyn needn't always push itself to be something else, something conscious and anxious, something pointed toward Manhattan.... Brooklyn might sometimes also be pleased, as… — Jonathan Lethem
You have friends who actually care about you and speak the language of the inner self. You have avoided them of late. Your soul is… — Jay McInerney
Everybody wants life to speak to them with special kindness. Every personal story begs to be steered toward reverie, toward some relief from unpleasant truths:… — Darin Strauss
The very design of the gospel doth tend to self-abasing; and the work of grace is begun and carried on in humiliation. Humility is not… — Richard Baxter

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