Self Quotes

14166 Self quotes by 6037 unique authors

Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sooner or later a democracy which is to survive has to be able to rely upon that enlargement of vision and purpose of those individuals… — Ordway Tead
Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation. — Margaret Deland
How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization! — Eric Hoffer
Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice. — Boris Pasternak
Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views… — Doris Lessing
As a young girl, I never felt attractive. I was fat and unhappy at times, and that kind of thinking stays with you your entire… — Kate Winslet
I suspect it is for one's self-interest that one looks at one's surroundings and one's self. This search is personally born and is indeed my… — Lee Friedlander
I refused to worry about something I could not change, and I still refuse. Look, I'm like any other woman. All this evolved b.s. that… — Kristen Bell
I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around… — Ansel Adams
When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order (unlike the world… — Aaron Siskind
Well, I do think, particularly the way I work, the better images occur when you're moving to the fringes of your own understanding. That's where… — Jerry Uelsmann
I don't want to be skinny. I'm constantly in a state of self-improvement, but I don't beat myself up over it. — Mindy Kaling
I had to surrender to not worrying about the way I looked, how much I weighed...I am not a woman whose self-worth comes from her… — Kristen Bell
And young people who are learning digital skills discover that the real challenge is coming up with an image that resonates, first of all, with… — Jerry Uelsmann
"Only with effort can the camera be forced to lie: basically it is an honest medium: so the photographer is much more likely to approach… — Edward Weston
To the vast majority of people a photograph is an image of something within their direct experience: a more-or-less factual reality. It is difficult for… — Ansel Adams
As great a picture can be made as one's mental capacity-no greater. Art cannot be taught; it must be self-inspiration, though the imagination may be… — Edward Weston
To believe that if we could have but this or that we would be happy is to suppress the realization that the cause of our… — Eric Hoffer
The function of football, soccer, basketball and other passion-sports in modern industrial society is the transference of boredom, frustration, anger and rage into socially acceptable… — Edward Abbey
Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated, self- determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in the public gaze, which is… — Merlin Olsen
...chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans are thinking, self-aware beings, capable of planning ahead, who form lasting social bonds with others and have a rich social… — Peter Singer
Success is very largely a matter of adjusting one's self to the ever-varying and changing environments of life, in a spirit of harmony and poise. — Napoleon Hill
I think I have learned that the best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else. — Booker T. Washington
Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all. — Mahatma Gandhi

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