Self Quotes

14166 Self quotes by 6037 unique authors

I like storytelling. We all have an active thing that we do that gives us self-esteem, that makes us proud; it's necessary. I have to… — Paul Zindel
The motive, principle, and end of the religious life is to make an absolute gift of self to God in a self-forgetting love, to end… — Edith Stein
We all know that girls who compete in sports perform better in school, are physically healthier and have a stronger self-esteem. — Louise Slaughter
Karate is not about winning over others. It is about winning over one's self. Ultimately, the most challenging opponents we face reside from within -… — David Walker
Keeping people neurotic and depressed and ignorant and self-doubting is oppressive. — Susie Bright
Since the State thrives on what it expropriates, the general decline in production that it induces by its avarice foretells its own doom. Its source… — Frank Chodorov
The corruption of freedom is in proportion to the moral deterioration of the people. For a people who have lost their sense of self-respect have… — Frank Chodorov
When the individual is relieved of the obligation of self-respect, he acquires the habits of helplessness; he is inclined to retreat to the security of… — Frank Chodorov
Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find your self. — Yohji Yamamoto
I AM (your true self) is not interested in man’s opinion. All its interest lies in your conviction of yourself. What do you say of… — Neville Goddard
Isolation is a self-defeating dream. — Carlos Salinas de Gortari
This is our Lord’s will, that our prayer and our trust be both alike large. For if we trust not as much as we pray,… — Julian of Norwich
Traditional hedonism...was based on the direct experience of pleasure: wine, women and song; sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll; or whatever the local variant. The… — David Graeber
Transcendent Oneness does not require self-examination, self-help, or self-work. It requires self-loss. — Barbara Ehrenreich
Painting is self-discovery. You arrive at the image through the act of painting. — Adolph Gottlieb
Man's first expression, like his first dream, was an aesthetic one. Speech was a poetic outcry rather than a demand for communication. Original man, shouting… — Barnett Newman
We're very physical creatures, and we worry about how we look sometimes more than our spiritual selves — Smokey Robinson
Ninety-five per cent of films are born of frustration, of self despair, of ambition for survival, for money, for fattening bank accounts. Five per cent,… — Samuel Fuller
The hope for the twentieth century rests on recognition that war and depression are man-made, and needless. They can be avoided in the future by… — Carroll Quigley
There is no education but self-education. — Charlotte Mason
Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs… — Stuart Wilde
At the opening of our exhibition at Deitch Projects in New York we featured a wall of 10,000 bananas. Green bananas created a pattern against… — Stefan Sagmeister
I’m self-entertaining. My dialogue is with myself. — Michael Heizer
If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee's eyes, an intelligent self-assured personality looks back at us. If they are animals, what must we… — Frans de Waal
It is not only visitors to the zoo who are fascinated but uneasy in the presence of chimpanzees; the same is true of scientists. The… — Frans de Waal

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