Self Quotes

14166 Self quotes by 6037 unique authors

Baseball gives ... a growing boy self-poise and self-reliance. Baseball is a man maker. — Albert Goodwill Spalding
Being in the library is so addictive for me that I really have to exercise self-control so I can get some writing done at home. — Janet Fitch
The integrity and self-esteem gained from winning the battle against extremity are the richest treasures in my life — Diana Nyad
The mastery of the true self, and the refusal to permit others to dominate us, is the ultimate in living and self-expression in athletics. — Percy Cerutty
If there is a defining aspect of UNC women's soccer, and its success, it is what we call the competitive cauldron. It is the pinnacle… — Anson Dorrance
To be true to one's self is the ultimate test in life. To have courage and the sensitivity to follow your hidden dreams and stand… — Flo Hyman
Self fulfilling prophecies do exist in real life — Frank Lloyd Wright
Self confidence is the ground stone of success — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the… — Frederick Salomon Perls
Normally we do not like to think about death. We would rather think about life. Why reflect on death? When you start preparing for death… — Sogyal Rinpoche
Being gifted intellectually is only a small part of the equation of success. Concentrate on the factors you have control over: persistence, self-discipline, confidence. Far… — Terry Bradshaw
We all have the tendency to believe self-doubt and self-criticism, but listening to this voice never gets us closer to our goals. Instead, try on… — Kelly McGonigal
Remorse presupposes enough self-forgetfulness to feel the pain ofothers. — Helen Prejean
Life is creation - self and circumstances, the raw material. — Dorothy Richardson
The correct description is that we try every day to become more humble when we talk about divinity, we try to realize how little we… — John Templeton
The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea. — John Templeton
It's self-centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity. — John Templeton
... the estranged self, hidden with its inexhaustible potential, lies undiscovered by many people who die without even knowing that it exists. — Unknown Author
Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will… — Anita Brookner
The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side,… — Pope John Paul II
Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and pride in… — H. L. Mencken
Be congruent, be authentic, be your true self. — Mahatma Gandhi
A recurring image in the work of the Rossetti circle was that of a woman absorbed in self-contemplation, gazing into a mirror or combing her… — Unknown Author

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