Self Quotes
14166 Self quotes by 6037 unique authors
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I'm Jerry Lawler, I make fun of women because I have no self-esteem.
— Santino Marella
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Always have a plan and believe in it. I tell my coaches not to compromise. Nothing good happens by accident. There must be a plan…
— Chuck Knox
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Find your own picture, your own self in anything that goes bad. It's awfully easy to mouth off at your staff or chew out players,…
— Bear Bryant
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I feel more a part of the wrestling community than I feel I belong to the community of arts and letters. Why? Because wrestling requires…
— John Irving
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If anyone, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him - it means just what Concord and Lexington meant; what Bunker…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Somewhere there was once a Flower, a Stone, a Crystal, a Queen, a King, a Palace, a Lover and his Beloved, and this was long…
— Carl Jung
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In deep self-acceptance grows a compassionate understanding. As one Zen master said when I asked if he ever gets angry, 'Of course I get angry,…
— Jack Kornfield
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Buddhism teaches us that happiness does not come from any kind of acquisitiveness, be it material or psychological. Happiness comes from letting go. In Buddhism,…
— Mark Epstein
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When we seek happiness through accumulation, either outside of ourselves-from other people, relationships, or material goods-or from our own self-development, we are missing the essential…
— Mark Epstein
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Dreams are more real than reality itself, they're closer to the self.
— Gao Xingjian
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What a museum chooses to exhibit is sometimes less important than how such decisions are made and what values inform them. To have the crucial…
— Martin Filler
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Sexy at the millennium means having a solid sense of self but never taking yourself too seriously.
— Rebecca Romijn
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False liberty is also a reason that people fabricate doctrines that say that you don't need to suffer. One such doctrine is the one that…
— Johan Oscar Smith
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If you're going to take gambles, you must have one thing: self-confidence.
— Don Shula
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If you feel stuck, bring your whole self to Christ, not just the problem, but you. Ask God to change your heart. Commit yourself to…
— Sheila Walsh
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Mental toughness is Spartanism, with all its qualities of self-denial, sacrifice, dedication, fearlessness, and love.
— Vince Lombardi
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Acid is not for every brain .... Only the healthy, happy, wholesome, handsome, hopeful, humorous, high-velocity should seek these experiences. This elitism is totally self-determined.…
— Timothy Leary
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And here we come to the vital distinction between the advocacy of temperance and the advocacy of prohibition. Temperance and self-control are convertible terms. Prohibition,…
— Felix Mendelssohn
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Nirvana is something within you. It is not an external reality. No god thunders down from the mountaintop. Just as the great mystics in the…
— Karen Armstrong
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While you are alive, your worldly self is like a collector of benefits from Allah's bounties, which come to you from myriads of hands.
— Ibn Arabi
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The death of the self lies in the life of the heart
— Ja'far al-Sadiq
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A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people
— Al-Ghazali
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There are four types of oceans. Passions are the ocean of sins, the self (nafs) is the ocean of lust, death is the ocean of…
— Unknown Author
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Don't forget your own self while preaching to others.
— Unknown Author
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People count with self-satisfaction the number of times they have recited the name of God on their prayer beads, but they keep no beads for…
— Al-Ghazali
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