Self Quotes

14166 Self quotes by 6037 unique authors

It is not, perhaps, unreasonable to conclude, that a pure and perfect democracy is a thing not attainable by man, constituted as he is of… — Alexander Fraser Tytler
You have to listen to your own voice. Not your heart, not your instincts, not any of that self-permissive psycho-babble stuff. No, none of that.… — Fleur Adcock
The struggle for socialism is the struggle for proletarian (working class) democracy. Proletarian democracy is not the crown of socialism. Socialism is the result of… — C L R James
You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt, as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear. — Paul H. Dunn
I regard it as the foremost task of education to insure the survival of these qualities: an enterprising curiosity, an undefeatable spirit, tenacity in pursuit,… — Kurt Hahn
My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments. — Tamara Ecclestone
Mr. McVicker instilled self-respect in those of us who were his students, because he respected us regardless of our background, — Ahmad Jamal
In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves. — George H. Mead
America was born out of a desire for self-determination, a longing for the human dignity that only independence can bring. — Maurice Saatchi
Much has been said about the meanings we make of illness, but what about the meanings we make out of cure? Cure is complex, disorienting,… — Lauren Slater
I can honestly say that there are many forms of atheism that I find far more admirable than many forms of Christianity or of religion… — David Bentley Hart
Now let's move on to the subject of how a real man treats his wife. A real man doesn't slap even a ten-dollar hooker around,… — S.M. Stirling
The soul is the ego, the ‘I,’ or the self, and it contains our consciousness. It also animates our body. That’s why when the soul… — J.P. Moreland
The man who comes to writing late, but is in essence a writer, may sometimes gain as much as he has lost: his experience of… — Wright Morris
Word is murder of a thing, not only in the elementary sense of implying its absence - by naming a thing, we treat it as… — Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little basis for validating… — Edward T. Hall
Writers are idolized not because they love their fellow men, which is never a recommendation and in extreme instances leads to crucifixion, but because their… — Hugh Kingsmill
Instead of educating the I.Q., we need to educate the H.Q., the heart quotient, the matters of truth, love, justice, and compassion. There are two… — Jim Trelease
Write. No amount of self-inflicted misery, altered states, black pullovers or being publicly obnoxious will ever add up to your being a writer. Writers write.… — A.L. Kennedy
I think the call of the inward life starts here. Solitude helps you differentiate, define the borders of the self. Solitude helps you figure our… — Jeanne Marie Laskas
To be willing to live within the imagination is to commit oneself to the gathering together of the pieces that might begin to form a… — Deena Metzger
I hated myself and the world because I had failed to face and accept the limitations of my self and of life. In literature this… — Luke Rhinehart
Fear... the right and necessary counterweights to that courage which urges men skyward, and protects them from self-destruction — Heinrich Harrer
The greatest act of self-revelation occurs when we choose what we will believe, in that space of freedom that exists between knowing that a thing… — Terryl L. Givens
It's not records I chase, it's self-improvement. And that cannot be done by taking it easy. — Chrissie Wellington

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