Self Quotes

14166 Self quotes by 6037 unique authors

I want to show my true self, not how I want to be seen by others. — G-Dragon
Challenge negative forces with hope, self-confidence and conviction. I believe that ambition and initiative will ultimately triumph. — Dhirubhai Ambani
That is still the case in this country for too many students, the soft bigotry of low expectations. If you don't expect them to learn,… — Tavis Smiley
The True Self is infinite. It knows no boundaries. Pure essence. Pure light. Engulfing the mind, the soul, the body, the invisible real, with its… — Alberto Villoldo
I never had a low self-esteem that would make me gay. At one point, though, the reverse happened. Being homosexual led me to have a… — Unknown Author
Self-seeking, self-glory, that is not me. No. Many people say I embarrass them with my humility. — Peter Akinola
Ripe for romance? Is that not only the self-conscious and sensitive young man's way of saying he was heavy with passion? Is not, perhaps, romance… — Trevanian
Self-creation is the highest art. — David Zindell
Selfishness is like a disease that suffocates our capacity to love. While love asks us to deny ourselves for the sake of another, selfishness demands… — Stephen Kendrick
The part of the brain most affected by early stress is the prefrontal cortex, which is critical in self-regulatory activities of all kinds, both emotional… — Paul Tough
What matters most in a child’s development, they say, is not how much information we can stuff into her brain in the first few years.… — Paul Tough
Or maybe a person is just made up of a lot of peopleMaybe we’re accumulating these new selves all the time. Hauling them in as… — Jandy Nelson
Every day I get better at knowing that it is not a choice to be an activist; rather, it is the only way to hold… — Staceyann Chin
If behind popular fascination with Freudian theory there was a nervous, often guilty preoccupation with the self as sexual, behind increasing interest in computational interpretations… — Sherry Turkle
It's a civic virtue to be exposed to things that appear to be outside your interest. In a complex world, almost everything affects you –… — Eli Pariser
I hate when counselors and teachers blame everything on low self-esteem in teens. Some of us actually have self-esteem, believe it or not. And when… — Niki Burnham
The body is a self-healing organism, so it's really about clearing things out of the way so the body can heal itself. — Barbara Brennan
Try to avoid complaints. Self-pity even when legitimate never fails to undermine your strength. — Mariane Pearl
Maturity is the ability to sort the portions of truth from the accepted lies and self-deceptions that you have grown up with. — Alexei Panshin
In a sense who you are has always been a story that you told to yourself. Now your self is a story that you tell… — Geoff Ryman
The strongest person is not the one who is able to do something, but the one who is able not to do what he has… — Witness Lee
To listen to critics, pro or con, and take their words to heart is to subcontract your self-esteem to strangers. (from Workbook) — Steven Heighton
Chanting is a significant and mysterious practice. It is the highest nectar, a tonic that fully nourishes our inner being. Chanting opens the heart and… — Swami Muktananda
I felt like a Tinker toy kid building my own self out of one of those toy building sets; for as she laid her life… — James McBride
The root of humanly caused evil is not man's animal nature, not territorial aggression, or innate selfishness, but our need to gain self-esteem, deny our… — Sam Keen

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