Self Quotes

14166 Self quotes by 6037 unique authors

The key thing is, even if you only have a couple of hours a month, those two hours shoulder-to-shoulder, next to one student, concentrated attention,… — Dave Eggers
I have a horror of being self-indulgent and wasting time, and there is that risk in doing this kind of work. Are you totally deluded… — Ben Fountain
Having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the… — William Bradford
Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe. — Andrew Marvell
I am still my teenage self. If you think that we all step through a door marked Adult, or that we sign a Grown-Up Document,… — Steven Morrissey
True conversion means turning not only from sin but also from depending on self-made righteousness. Those who trust in their own righteousness for conversion hide… — George Whitefield
Terrorism is a word with little content - it is a label for brutalities committed by ‘the enemy’, and from which one’s own acts of… — David Livingstone
Perfectionism is simply putting a limit on your future. When you have an idea of perfect in your mind, you open the door to constantly… — John Eliot
It scares me to speak my mind, it might sound self-absorbed, I don't say half of what I think, I wonder what I'm thinking for — Chantal Kreviazuk
Actually, when I look at my old notebooks, I think I have been a bit self-indulgent and have given myself too much time to meander… — Natalie Goldberg
In order to create, we draw from our inner well. This inner well, an artistic reservoir, is ideally like a well stocked fish pond... If… — Julia Cameron
People with high but unstable self-esteem exhibit the greatest hostility. — Roy Baumeister
Violence appears to be most commonly a result of threatened egotism -- that is, highly favorable views of self that are disputed by some person… — Roy Baumeister
Pride takes innumerable forms but has only one end: self-glorification. That’s the motive and ultimate purpose of pride—to rob God of legitimate glory and to… — C. J. Mahaney
A taste of righteousness can be easily perverted into an overweening sense of self-righteousness and judgmentalism. — R. Kent Hughes
Our thinking about who we are as Christians should not begin with what we can discover about ourselves by self-analysis. Rather, it begins with what… — Sinclair B. Ferguson
Theology is a serious quest for the true knowledge of God, undertaken in response to His self-revelation, illumined by Christian tradition, manifesting a rational inner… — John Stott
The world needs to see Christians burning, not with self-righteous fury at the sliding morals in our country, but with passion for God. — Kevin DeYoung
The only chains God wants us to wear are the chains of righteousness--not the chains of hopeless subjectivism, not the shackles of risk-free living, not… — Kevin DeYoung
Sincerity is a Christian virtue, as is honesty about our struggles. But my generation needs to realize that Christianity is more than chic fragility, endless… — Kevin DeYoung
Just about the worst thing a leader can nurture in his heart is self-pity. And just about the worst thing a leader can do in… — Kevin DeYoung
Holiness is the sum of a million little things — the avoidance of little evils and little foibles, the setting aside of little bits of… — Kevin DeYoung
Die to self. Live for Christ. And then do what you want, and go where you want, for God's glory. — Kevin DeYoung
A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take… — Richard Russo
The cyborg is a kind of disassembled and reassembled, postmodern collective and personal self. This is the self feminists must code. — Donna J. Haraway

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