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Self Quotes by Maya Angelou
- If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
- Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
- I will look after you and I will look after anybody you say needs to be looked after, any way you say. I am here.…
- I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.
- I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others…
- I'm not sure if resilience is ever achieved alone. Experience allows us to learn from example. But if we have someone who loves us-I don't…
- Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
- I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we…
- Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
More Self Quotes
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. — Arthur Ashe
- Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov
- Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. — Francis of Assisi
- That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it… — Mary Astell
- Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. — Nancy Astor
- It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us… — David Attenborough
- Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up. — Dean Acheson
- A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower… — Marcus Aurelius
- What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! — Jane Austen
- We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves,… — Paul Auster