Self Quotes

14166 Self quotes by 6037 unique authors

Cultural criticism finds itself faced with the final stage of the dialectic of culture and barbarism. To write poetry after the holocaust is barbaric. And… — Theodor Adorno
All autobiography is self-indulgent. — Daphne du Maurier
There will always be some people who think for themselves, even among the self-appointed guardians of the great mass who, after having thrown off the… — Immanuel Kant
There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial. — Walter Scott
Gratitude connects us to others and feeling gratitude allows us to be our best selves. When we are truly grateful, we can count on living… — M. J. Ryan
Surrender your self-interest. Love others as much as you love yourself. Then you can be entrusted with all things under heaven. — Laozi
The True Person avoids extremes, self-indulgence, and extravagance. — Laozi
Girls who stay true to themselves manage to find some way to respect the parts of themselves that are spiritual. They work for the betterment… — Mary Pipher
Men with style are great because they have a sense of self. — Lexa Doig
It is man's intrinsic and irreducible self-responsibility to humanize himself, to exercise his entire range of rational and moral resources to raise his mode of… — Kenny Smith
But coming home that day, walking downhill with a panorama of valley and hills before me, I turned my gaze inward, and what I saw,… — Bernadette Roberts
You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest. — Robert Breault
Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality. — Thomas Jefferson
We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We… — Steven Pressfield
Being all fashioned of the self-same dust, let us be merciful as well as just — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If you wou'd be reveng'd of your enemy, govern your self — Benjamin Franklin
Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance — Daniel De Leon
If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and how three-quarters of his energy and goodwill can be paralyzed… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophical systems? Even the most impressive of them are uncomfortably seated on a throne of rock bottom stupidity, that self-inflicted narrow-mindness which renders a mind… — Erich Heller
Your worst enemies are made when you ignore people. Those boys in America who shot dead classmates recently, didn't do that because they woke up… — Tori Amos
People used to say, "Ignorance is no excuse." Today, ignorance is no problem. After all, you have "a right to your own opinion" - and… — Thomas Sowell
When television producers say it is the parents obligation to keep children away from the tube, they reach the self satire point of warning that… — Gregg Easterbrook
The single largest frustration in the massage field is the waste of resources and training resulting from high attrition among those who start practicing massage… — Bob Benson
Printing demands a humility of mind, for the lack of which many of the fine arts are even now floundering in self-conscious and maudlin experiments. — Beatrice Warde
Our elevation must be the result of self-efforts and work of our own hands. No other human power can accomplish it. If we but determine… — Martin Delany

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