Self Quotes

14166 Self quotes by 6037 unique authors

Hopefully I've shown them (fellow cyclists) you just need some self-belief and that you need to take your destiny into your own hands instead of… — Jens Voigt
When I was younger, I didn't even know how to walk. I was so self-conscious. — Lil B
I think it's very empowering to be able to have a career and to be a mother. It gives you an amazing sense of self. — Georgina Chapman
The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice. It is the one calling… — William Booth
Many things happen in life. There are joyous days and times of suffering. Sometimes unpleasant things occur. But that's what makes life so interesting. The… — Daisaku Ikeda
Having children is not an act of God. It's not like you're walking down the street and pregnancy strikes you; children are a result of… — Walter E. Williams
Today, when so much seems to conspire to reduce life and feeling to the most deprived and demeaning bottom line, it is more important than… — Ada Louise Huxtable
Hair brings one’s self-image into focus; it is vanity’s proving ground. Hair is terribly personal, a tangle of mysterious prejudices — Shana Alexander
We need to look at learning as the product of educational self-organization. It’s not about making learning happen; it’s about letting it happen. — Sugata Mitra
Education is a self-organizing system, where learning is an emergent phenomenon. — Sugata Mitra
The best schools tend to have the best teachers, not to mention parents who supervise homework, so there is less need for self-organised learning. But… — Sugata Mitra
The fondness we have for self furnishes another long rank of prejudices. — Isaac Watts
From aquaintances we conceal our real selves. To our friends we reveal our weaknesses. — Basil Hume
Of all the traps and pitfalls in life, self-disesteem is the deadliest, and the hardest to overcome: for it is a pit designed and dug… — Maxwell Maltz
The question is whether personal freedom is worth the terrible effort, the never-lifted burden and risks of self-reliance. — Rose Wilder Lane
I don't like the word 'balance.' To me, that somehow conjures up conflict between work and family... as long as we think of these things… — Padmasree Warrior
If you both agree at a conscious level that the purpose of your relationship is to create an opportunity, not an obligation-an opportunity for growth,… — Neale Donald Walsch
Anger is a tool for change when it challenges us to become more of an expert on the self and less of an expert on… — Harriet Lerner
Our lives can be considered a sacred quest. It is a quest which may have begun in this lifetime or many lifetimes before. It is… — Vivianne Crowley
Now is the time to get serious about living your ideals. Once you have determined the spiritual principles you wish to exemplify, abide by these… — Epictetus
For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their… — Samuel Smiles
Problems form an important part of our lives. They are placed in our path for us to overcome them, not to be overcome by them.… — Royden G. Derrick
The life of man is a self-evolving circle. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our Creator has put in us hungers that this earth can- not satisfy. We cannot be completely self-contained on earth. Physical sense cannot give us… — Ralph Washington Sockman
The new life created by the final integration is self-aware yet without ego, capable of inhabiting a body yet not attached to it, and guided… — Laozi

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