Self Quotes

14166 Self quotes by 6037 unique authors

It took cancer to realize that being self-centered is not the way to live. The answer is to try and help others. — Terry Fox
If you seek reality you must set yourself free of all backgrounds, of all cultures, of all patterns of thinking and feeling. Even the idea… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
If you want to learn something that will really help you, learn to see yourself as God sees you and not as you see yourself… — Thomas a Kempis
I call the transformed world toward which we can move ‘sustainable,’ by which I mean a great deal more than a world that merely sustains itself… — Donella Meadows
The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues--self-restraint. Why cannot I take… — Edwin Way Teale
We must come to the Bible with the purpose of self-exposure consciously in mind. I suspect not many people make more than a token stab… — Larry Crabb
In order to meaningfully repent of the ways in which we violate love, we must recognize them. We won’t recognize self-protective patterns of relating as… — Larry Crabb
The more clearly we recognize how deep our commitment to self-protection operates in our relational style and the more courageously we face the ugliness of… — Larry Crabb
Our tendency is to be strong, self-sufficient, and dependent on our own willpower, but rather than try harder, we should reach out to the God… — John Townsend
Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day. If I succeed, I will give thanks. If I… — Max Lucado
But I don't think anybody with any self-respect would admit to being Goth — Unknown Author
Prior to the advent of the civilization of the Third Estate (mercantilism, capitalism), the social ethics that was religiously sanctioned in the West consisted in… — Julius Evola
If this earth should ever be destroyed, it will be by desire, by the lust of pleasure and self-gratification, by greed of the green frog… — John Fire Lame Deer
I believe that if something like a political life is to remain for us in this world of technology, then it begins with friendship. Therefore… — Ivan Illich
The Holy Grail of universal coverage in the United States may remain out of reach unless, through rational collective action overriding some individual self-interest, we… — Donald Berwick
Being an art buyer these days is comprehensively and indisputably vulgar. It is the sport of the Eurotrashy, Hedge-fundy, Hamptonites; of trendy oligarchs and oiligarchs;… — Charles Saatchi
I used to be someone who would not even tread on an ant. But this is a war for honor and self-defense. A 100 percent… — Abdullah Ocalan
We cannot afford the luxury of self pity. Our top priority now is to get on with the building process. My personal peace has come… — Mamie Till
For me, coding is a form of self-expression. The company controls the most effective means of self-expression I have. This is unacceptable to me as… — Unknown Author
The theoretical recognition of the split-space of enunciation may open the way to conceptualising an international culture, based not on the exoticism of multiculturalism or… — Unknown Author
No self-respecting small businessman with a brain in the right place would ever employ a lady of child-bearing age. — Godfrey Bloom
I used to think that divorce meant failure, but now I see it more as a step along the path of self-realization and growth. — Alana Stewart
If my former self and my current self met for coffee, they'd get along OK, but they'd both probably walk out of the Starbucks shaking… — A. J. Jacobs
Her imperturbable self-confidence (Duchesse de Maine) caused Madame de Stael to write that the Duchesse believed in herself the same way she believed in God,… — Antonia Fraser
You can't please everybody all the time, but I think for the most part we tend to maintain a healthy level of self-reference to kind… — Ben Gibbard

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