Self Quotes

14166 Self quotes by 6037 unique authors

When we speak of peace, we should not mean just the absence of war. True peace rests on the pillars of individual freedom, human rights,… — Ronald Reagan
Nothing short of self-respect and that justice which is essential to a national character ought to involve us in war. — George Washington
A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter… — Alexander Cockburn
You create a good future by creating a good present. How do you do that? By recognizing the goodness that is already inherent in the… — Eckhart Tolle
Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect. — Miguel Angel Ruiz
Make ones center of life inside ones self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity. — Edith Wharton
I was doing a children's book on self-esteem, and I really felt like I wanted to shed the shame I'd been feeling - and maybe… — Jamie Lee Curtis
For some reason, all artists have self-esteem issues. — Whoopi Goldberg
As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem. — Tom Petty
Self-respect is to the soul as oxygen is to the body. Deprive a person of oxygen, and you kill his body; deprive him of self-respect… — Thomas Szasz
The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity. — Mahatma Gandhi
When you have self-respect, you have enough. — Gail Sheehy
Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance? — Abdul Kalam
First principle: never to let one's self be beaten down by persons or by events. — Marie Curie
The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some… — Raymond Chandler
We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self. — Cyril Connolly
Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties.… — Mary Baker Eddy
The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth... the pollution of American space, with gadgetry and cars and TV… — Susan Sontag
You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack… — Ram Dass
Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it. — Lord Byron
She is so totally absorbed in a vocation - both a gift and a mastering passion - that she has no time to be absorbed… — George Will
Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit… — Andrea Dworkin
Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval. — Mark Twain

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