Self Quotes

14166 Self quotes by 6037 unique authors

An indoor (or backseat) childhood does reduce some dangers to children; but other risks are heightened, including risks to physical and psychological health, risk to… — Richard Louv
After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment. — Judith Lewis Herman
Many abused children cling to the hope that growing up will bring escape and freedom. But the personality formed in an environment of coercive control… — Judith Lewis Herman
God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his… — Richard Holloway
Books, I knew then and now, give body to our ideas and imaginations, make them flesh in the world; a bookstore is the city where… — Lewis Buzbee
Rereading a favorite novel first read 5, 10, or 20 years ago, is a measure of our travel, how far we've come; it's a way… — Lewis Buzbee
It is proper for people to have friends, friendships without self-interest. Without friends, life is too lonely. — Pramoedya Ananta Toer
The individualism of current economic theory is manifest in the purely self-interested behaviour it generally assumes. It has no real place for fairness, malevolence, and… — Herman E. Daly
The 'secret of life' is BELIEF. Rather than genes, it is our beliefs that control our lives. PSYCH-K is a set of simple, self-empowering techniques… — Bruce H. Lipton
Sunday was always the best of days for being the self you had intended to be, but were not, for one reason or another. — Jesse Ball
The tension between 'yes' and no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot,' makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable… — Anatole Broyard
I purposely try to hire people who are really self-motivated and good at what they do, and then I just leave them alone. — Yvon Chouinard
Physical separateness can never be overcome by electronics, but only by 'conviviality,' by 'living together' in the most literal physical sense. The physically divided are… — Hakim Bey
Sincerity does not only complete the self; it is the means by which all things are completed. As the self is completed, there is human-heartedness;… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Fashion you can buy, but style you possess. The key to style is learning who you are, which takes years. There’s no how-to road map… — Iris Apfel
Perhaps the greatest barrier to revival on a large scale is the fact that we are to interested in a great display. We want an… — Sadhu Sundar Singh
In England it is bad manners to be clever, to assert something confidently. It may be your own personal view that two and two make… — George Mikes
Let every student enter the school with this advice. No matter how good the school is, his education is in his own hands. All education… — Robert Henri
Nuclear power generation has been given a thrust by the use of uranium-based fuel which US is set to supply to India if the deal… — Abdul Kalam
The key to successful business is self belief and application. — Felix Dennis
Without self belief nothing can be accomplished. With it, nothing is impossible. — Felix Dennis
The bigness of the world is redemption. Despair compresses you into a small space, and a depression is literally a hollow in the ground. To… — Rebecca Solnit
Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure. — Sydney J. Harris
At the root of all our disobedience are particular ways in which we continue to seek control of our lives through systems of works-righteousness. The… — Timothy Keller
If your fundamental is a man dying on the cross for his enemies, if the very heart of your self-image and your religion is a… — Timothy Keller

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