Self Quotes

14166 Self quotes by 6037 unique authors

Being angry is like picking up a knife with no handle: it is self-harming. — Koo Stark
Only love for Christ has the power to incapacitate the sturdy love for self that is the bane of every sinner, and only the grace… — Paul David Tripp
Love is willing self-sacrifice for the good of another that does not require reciprocation or that the person being loved is deserving — Paul David Tripp
Trials should not surprise us, or cause us to doubt God's faithfulness. Rather, we should actually be glad for them. God sends trials to strengthen… — Edmund Clowney
Alone you're refinding a glittering, a clarity, you're finding your distilled self. ...You think of the two types of aloneness you've known recently: this wonderful,… — Nikki Gemmell
I've read over 200 self improvement books. I know what to do to change my life around, but I have the fear of that change.… — Tatsuhiko Takimoto
We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposes to rob… — James Harvey Robinson
Rationalizing is the self-exculpation which occurs when we feel ourselves, or our group, accused of misapprehension or error. — James Harvey Robinson
Accountability is the essence of democracy. If people do not know what their government is doing, they cannot be truly self-governing. The national security state… — Garry Wills
If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains. — Helen Gahagan Douglas
If it is love that makes the world go round, it is self-induction that makes electromagnetic waves go round the world. — Oliver Heaviside
The most self-destructive thought that any person can have is thinking that he or she is not in total control of his or her life.… — Roger Dawson
Circumstances which we have resented, situations which we have found desperately difficult, have all been the means in the hands of God of driving the… — Alan Redpath
I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy? — Victor Cruz
You marry at the level of your self-esteem, make sure you have self worth. — Marie Osmond
I'm very self-conscious having my picture taken, so I clown around. My driver's license photo looks like a blonde Elvis. — Emily Procter
The real essence of art turned out to be not something high up and far off - it was right inside my ordinary daily self… — Shinichi Suzuki
We are aware that the order of God requires the exercise of humility, but not of servility of slaves; but a humility that can be… — John Andreas Widtsoe
Many of those whose task it is to broker the truth of God to the people of God in the churches have now redefined the… — David F. Wells
I really do think that art can save you in some sense. It's the last meaning, unless you're religious-and I'm not religious. It's the only… — Sam Savage
Fostering your sense of creativity can give you feelings of freedom, delight and passion. It can help you see your life in a new light… — Ami McKay
A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts. — Al Goldstein
Who is giving the orders to ants? No one. They are self-organizing. Each of our immune systems get smarter over the years as its biochemical… — Steven Johnson
But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your work, of putting self-consciousness in… — Joseph Barber Lightfoot
I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall June grasses that grew high as… — Pierre Loti

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