Self Quotes

14166 Self quotes by 6037 unique authors

Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Women desperate to catch a man practice all the ploys recommended by these authors. Bump into him, trip… — Florence King
Pride does not look up to God and care about what is right. It looks sideways to man and argues who is right. Pride is… — Ezra Taft Benson
In the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride. It is always considered as a sin. We are not speaking of a wholesome… — Ezra Taft Benson
"Life Diamond". . . Job. Family. Society. Sense of Self... — Wayne Dyer
A half century ago Herbert Wechsler could justify the legal right of deadly force self-defense in terms of the "universal judgment that there is no… — Don Kates
To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it… — Clifford Geertz
As we increasingly become aware of the One Life breathing in each brother form of life, we learn the meaning of compassion, which literally means… — Christmas Humphreys
Total freedom is never what one imagines and, in fact, hardly exists. It comes as a shock in life to learn that we usually only… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
A self-made man, if he is made at all, has already won the battle of life. . . . he has learned to resist. He… — Alvin R. Dyer
The essence of Christianity is the appeal to the life of Christ as a revelation of the nature of God and of God's agency in… — Alfred North Whitehead
Blessed is the healthy nature; it is the coherent, sweetly co-operative, not incoherent, self-distracting, self-destructive one! — John Keats
Many of us have a tendency to forget the Gracious Hand which has preserved our nation, enriched it, strengthened it. Many of us imagine in… — Ezra Taft Benson
The series of integers is obviously an invention of the human mind, a self-created tool which simplifies the ordering of certain sensory experiences. — Albert Einstein
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting… — Alan Perlis
Virtue could see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's… — John Milton
What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a… — Norman O. Brown
'Wars, factions, and fighting,' said Socrates as he looked forward from his last hour, 'have no other origin than this same body and its lusts...… — Socrates
When it's time to get dressed, put on your clothes. When you must walk, then walk. When you must sit, then sit. Just be your… — Linji Yixuan
Human cultures are all experiments in trying to find a form that will fit the matter of our immediacy; but it is absolutely not the… — Kenny Smith
Instant enlightenment. A quintessential modernism, culture and religion accommodated to the age of fast food and bumper stickers. But psyche and spirit are not so… — Kenny Smith
I seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm. — Marcus Aurelius
Behind your thoughts and feelings, my brother, there stands a mighty ruler. an unknown sage - whose name is self. In yourt body he dwells;… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Not only does inspiration from the Lord compensate for want of facts; it also induces men by self-discipline, to conform in their personal conduct and… — Marion G. Romney
Humility is the part of wisdom, and is most becoming in men. But let no one discourage self-reliance; it is, of all the rest, the… — Lajos Kossuth

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