Self Quotes

14166 Self quotes by 6037 unique authors

Self-confidence can be crippling. — Leonard Michaels
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that. — Pearl Bailey
O beautiful for spacious skies, . . . O beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife, Who more than self their country loved, And mercy… — Katharine Lee Bates
No one in the world can change Truth. What we can do and should do is to seek truth and to serve it when we… — Maximilian Kolbe
Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed. — Aristotle
There's a lot of talk about self-esteem these days. It seems pretty basic to me. If you eat to feel proud of yourself, you've got… — Oseola McCarty
Ultimately a highly complex sentiment, having its first origin in the social instincts, largely guided by the approbation of our fellow-men, ruled by reason, self-interest,… — Charles Darwin
Unless a man has talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. Of what avail is freedom to choose if the self… — Eric Hoffer
There is a great deal of self-will in the world, but very little genuine independence of character. — Frederick William Faber
The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will… — Eric Hoffer
The right of self-government does not comprehend the government of others. — Thomas Jefferson
I have so much confidence in the good sense of man, and his qualifications for self-government, that I am never afraid of the issue where… — Thomas Jefferson
Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities, are incapable of self-government. — Thomas Jefferson
The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race. — Gough Whitlam
Bob Geldof is a nauseating character. Band Aid was the most self-righteous platform ever in the history of popular music. — Steven Morrissey
Always bear this in mind: Everything is in God's hands, and you are His tool to be used by Him as He pleases. Try to… — Anandamayi Ma
Publishing is the only industry I can think of where most of the employees spend most of their time stating with great self-assurance that they… — Donald E. Westlake
When a new writer defends his "style," the teacher smiles (or cringes) because real style isn't an artifice. Real style - voice - arrives on… — Bill Roorbach
They believe that if they do get published, a wonderful new life is in store. It will turn out that deep down they are really… — Anne Lamott
An author, like any other so-called artist, is a man in whom the normal vanity of all men is so vastly exaggerated that he finds… — H. L. Mencken
It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core… — George Eliot
People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited. — William Makepeace Thackeray
Find your purpose and fling your life out to it. Find a way or make one. Try with all your might. Self-made or never made. — Orison Swett Marden
I think self-exploration is one of the journeys in life that we are blessed to be able to have. — Anne Heche
Fear does its best work in isolation. Courage wears the face of your ability to love and be loved. Breakthrough happens when you discover your… — Lynn Jones

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