Self Quotes

14166 Self quotes by 6037 unique authors

My Bible tells me that if we train a child in the way he should go, when he is old he will not turn from… — Barack Obama
By taking the time to stop and appreciate who you are and what you've achieved - and perhaps learned through a few mistakes, stumbles and… — Jack Canfield
I do ask every publisher, every editor, and every newsman in the nation to reexamine his own standards, and to recognize the nature of our… — John F. Kennedy
We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics. Out of the collapse of a prosperity… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Words uttered under coercion are proof of loyalty to nothing but self-interest. Love of country must spring from willing hearts and free minds. — Hugo Black
Humanism believes that the individual attains the good life by harmoniously combining personal satisfactions and continuous self-development with significant work and other activities that contribute… — Corliss Lamont
You believe that reality is something objective, external, existing in its own right. You also believe that the nature of reality is self-evident. When you… — George Orwell
Reality TV, blogging and self-publishing are all evidence of a society's or culture's desire to be more public. And that's a sign of a healthy… — Maureen Corrigan
In many cases, mathematics is an escape from reality. The mathematician finds his own monastic niche and happiness in pursuits that are disconnected from external… — Stanislaw Ulam
I suspect most self-described 18-year-old Scandinavian women named Inga who collect and wear string bikinis are, in reality, more likely to be middle-aged, pot-bellied guys… — Pat Sajak
We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love. — Walter Savage Landor
On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and with as much certitude as… — Wilhelm Dilthey
The answer, usually, is no. Wisdom is a quality that defies easy definition but psychologists who study aging have found that some of its components… — James W. Pennebaker
Parents - and teachers too - are woefully short-sighted when they try to protect the child from his mistakes, when they make the "right answer"… — Sydney J. Harris
If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking care of course… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to the old home… — O. Henry
Wisdom's self oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, where with her best nurse Contemplation, she plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings that in… — John Milton
Know your own Self. Honor your own Self. Find and be who you really are, at the deepest level of your own being. Be present… — Nirmalananda
Contemplation is not and cannot be a function of this external self. There is an irreducible opposition between the deep transcendent self that awakens only… — Thomas Merton
It is not the principled partisan, however obnoxious he may seem to his opponents, who degrades our public debate, but the preening, self-styled statesman who… — Tom DeLay

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