Self Quotes

14166 Self quotes by 6037 unique authors

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that. — John Sterling
Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial. — Susie Orbach
Look at Christ, my dear friend: His life was divine through and through, full of self-denial, and He did everything for mankind, finding His satisfaction… — Mikhail Bakunin
It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you… — Jonathan Franzen
And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to… — Alison Bechdel
It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men; in their religion; in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
And so the reliance on Property, including the reliance on governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We love it because it is self dependent, self derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those who are self-righteous are not prominent. — Laozi
Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays — Elwyn Brooks White
There is no real independent self, aloof from other human beings, inspecting the world, inspecting other people. You are, in fact, connected not just via… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse. — Peter De Vries
And so on, until you arrive at the other side, among the purely abstract self-harming: the grinding over your failures, the refusal to remember anything… — Alexander Masters
As a spiritual person, nature for me has always been a healing place. Going back all the way to my childhood on the farm, the… — David Mixner
I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind — Ednita Nazario
My colleagues and I are of that generation of young men who went through the Second World War and the Japanese Occupation and emerged determined… — Lee Kuan Yew
Before we can conquer the world, we must first conquer the self. — J. Oswald Sanders
God's word tells us that righteousness is a gift; it cannot be earned. But godliness is not a gift. We must pay a price to… — K.P. Yohannan
Yet so often it seems that victory eludes us. It is when our self-confidence is finally destroyed and is replaced with dependence upon God that… — K.P. Yohannan
We must pay a price to touch godliness through daily decision to die to self and embrace the cross. — K.P. Yohannan
Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
He who practices sheel (virtue) and sayyam (self-restrain) attains to greatness — Shri Radhe Maa
I am the self-consumer of my woes, — John Clare
When I lacked even the self-respect to keep myself alive, she dabbed my cuts and I fell back into being a son; I fell as… — Mitch Albom
We are dominated by everything with which our self is identified. We can dominate and control everything from which we disidentify ourselves. The normal mistake… — Roberto Assagioli

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