Self Quotes

14166 Self quotes by 6037 unique authors

If you have to maintain self-esteem by pulling down the standing of others, you are extraordinarily unfortunate. — Harry Stack Sullivan
Self-centeredness will bring on the destruction of our world. National pride separates people. All people need the same thing. When you really get down to… — Jacque Fresco
In a society where every man works for himself, individual incentive, working for one's self. If people worked for one's self, there wouldn't be the… — Jacque Fresco
We must get away from this limited *I did this and I did that* and the self-centeredness, that dominates our society Today. It must be… — Jacque Fresco
You can't participate in agriculture or redesign of aircraft for making them safer if you know nothing about it. Â So, whenever a person says… — Jacque Fresco
Architects are mostly self-centered and their buildings express their ego. Â [They are] not social buildings to make it more comfortable for people - to… — Jacque Fresco
If you believe in living a respectable life, you believe in self-help which is the best help! — B R Ambedkar
Regardless of the problem, as long as our solution requires someone else to change, we will never know the power and promise of self-determination. — Bill Crawford
Selfish is caring for ourselves at others' expense ... Self-care is taking care of ourselves so that we can be there for others. — Bill Crawford
The difference between self-confidence and conceit is as simple as love and fear. Jesus was self-confident ... Hitler was afraid. — Bill Crawford
The ability to help the people around me self-actualize their goals underlines the single aspect of my abilities and the label that I value most—teacher. — Bill Walsh
It seems to us that in intelligence there is a fundamental faculty, the alteration or the lack of which, is of the utmost importance for… — Alfred Binet
That which man dreams of and to Which he aspires, unless fulfilled in his own lifetime, can produce no actual satisfaction to him. It will… — Haile Selassie
For instance, I may bring a certain feminist perspective to my songwriting, because that's how I see life. I'm interested in art, poetry, and music.… — Laura Nyro
Millions of people never analyze themselves. Mentally they are mechanical products of the factory of their environment, preoccupied with breakfast, lunch, and dinner, working and… — Paramahansa Yogananda
Give up identification with this mass of flesh as well as with what thinks it a mass. Both are intellectual imaginations. Recognise your true self… — Adi Shankara
Do not look at anybody in terms of friend or foe, brother or cousin; do not fritter away your mental energies in thoughts of friendship… — Adi Shankara
What gives life its value if not its constant cry for self-transcendence? — Sri Chinmoy
Understanding of the self only arises in relationship, in watching yourself in relationship to people, ideas, and things; to trees, the earth, and the world… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
That is the first thing to learn — not to seek. When you seek you are really only window-shopping. The question of whether or not… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
So, to meditate is to purge the mind of its self-centered activity. And if you have come this far in meditation, you will find there… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Hinduism would not be eternal were it not constantly growing and spreading, and taking in new areas of experience. Precisely because it has this power… — Sister Nivedita
In the stillness of the night, the Goddess whispers. In the brightness of the day, dear God roars. Life pulses, mind imagines, emotions wave, thoughts… — Ken Wilber
For authentic transformation is not a matter of belief but of the death of the believer; not a matter of translating the world but of… — Ken Wilber
As you you deeply into your own awareness, and relax the self-contraction, and dissolve into the empty ground of your own primordial experience, the simply… — Ken Wilber

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