Self Quotes

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Our very business is to teach the great lesson of self-denial and humility to our people, and how unfit is it then that we should… — Richard Baxter
Naturally, men are prone to spin themselves a web of opinions out of their own brain, and to have a religion that may be called… — Richard Baxter
I take the love of God and self-denial to be the sum of all saving grace and religion. — Richard Baxter
Oh thrice fools are we who like new-born princes weeping in the cradle know not that there is a kingdom before them then let our… — Samuel Rutherford
We are as near to heaven as we are far from self, and far from the love of a sinful world. — Samuel Rutherford
Where are my sensations? They have melted into... me, and what is this me, this self, but the sum of these evaporated sensations? — Emile M. Cioran
Were we to undertake an exhaustive self-scrutiny, disgust would paralyze us, we would be doomed to a thankless existence. — Emile M. Cioran
A self-respecting man is a man without a country. A fatherland is birdlime... — Emile M. Cioran
We spoke and acted as if, given the opportunity for self-government, we would quickly create utopias. Instead injustice, even tyranny, is rampant. — Julius Nyerere
Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad. — Evelyn Waugh
If you interrupt the writing of fast narrative with too much introspection and self-criticism, you will be lucky if you write 500 words a day… — Ian Fleming
Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet. — John Updike
When the Irishman is found outside of Ireland in another environment, he very often becomes a respected man. The economic and intellectual conditions that prevail… — James Joyce
I didn't have high self-esteem when I was a teen-ager, as I think most teen-agers don't. — Alanis Morissette
I just want to hear the true voices of women self-expressing - smart ones, stupid ones, ugly ones, beautiful ones, good ones, bad ones, fat… — Liz Phair
A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed… — Victor Hugo
Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poison with a source of… — Victor Hugo
The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides. Which I think is a rather handy metaphor for falling in love. — Gayle Forman
The gentleman does not needlessly and unnecessarily remind an offender of a wrong he may have committed against him. He cannot only forgive, he can… — Robert E. Lee
And so, when I began to read the proffered pages, I at one moment lost the train of thought in the text and drowned it… — Milorad PaviÄ‡

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