Self Quotes

14166 Self quotes by 6037 unique authors

To be selfless, you would give charity anonymously, walj softly on the earth, and look out for others-even total strangers-before you look out for yourself.… — Tahir Shah
Lord, please restore to us the comfort of merit and demerit. Show us that there is at least something we can do. Tell us that… — Robert Farrar Capon
Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize… — Edsger Dijkstra
IQ tests are routinely used as weapons against Black people in particular and minority groups and poor people generally. The tests are based on white… — Huey Newton
Don't wait for some miracle to be performed on you from without, lifting you above your fears and doubts and self-centeredness. You help God from… — E. Stanley Jones
By putting the spotlight on the female child and framing her as the ideal of beauty, he condemns the mature woman to invisibility. In fact,… — Fatema Mernissi
I live my life on self-belief and I live it partly on going with the flow. — Melanie Brown
Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyones individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth. — Ma Jian
Don't be afraid to fail. The greatest failure of all is failure to act when action is needed. Use the information that you've acquired in… — John Wooden
Practice self-discipline and keep emotions under control. Good judgment and common sense are essential. — John Wooden
A freedom or pleasure that rests on someone else's slavery or misery cannot finally satisfy the self because it is a limitation or narrowing of… — Hakim Bey
My self-confidence can be measured out in teaspoons mixed into my poetry, and it still always tastes funny in my mouth. — Sarah Kay
I don't think of sex as a self-destructive impulse. — Thom Gunn
I don't know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who stayed home. — Thom Gunn
But, if recent history has taught us anything, it’s that self-regulation doesn’t work in finance, and that worries about reputation are a weak deterrent to… — James Surowiecki
Courage is a self-inflicted quality that gains momentum every time you try it. — Jeffrey Gitomer
As a Christian, there is no other part of the New Right ideology that concerns me more than its self-serving misuse of religious faith. — Mark Hatfield
Shatter the glass. In our society that is so self-absorbed, begin to look less at yourself and more at each other. Learn more about the… — Sargent Shriver
In a dynamical system, or a massively complex dynamical system such as we live in, when there is a moment of bifurcation, which is the… — Ralph Abraham
I'd define it as self-awareness: an ability to trust your own judgment. An ability to see through veils of bullshit or spins on stories or… — Unknown Author
One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance — Whitfield Diffie
The completeness of this transformation appalled me. It was unlike anything I had imagined. I became two men, the serving one, and the one who… — John Howard Griffin
I still haven't found the place where I can be my true self. But maybe you never get to be your true self, either. — Karen Joy Fowler
I just want to encourage every one of us to realize when we obey God, we’re not doing it for God—I mean, that’s one way… — Victoria Osteen
In sum, doubling is the psychological means by which one invokes the evil potential of the self. That evil is neither inherent in the self… — Robert Jay Lifton

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