Self Quotes

14166 Self quotes by 6037 unique authors

Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism. Drunk with self-love,… — Camille Paglia
After about 30 minutes I puked all over my airplane. I said to my self, "Man, you made a big mistake." — Chuck Yeager
I have seen the vision and for self I cannot live; Life is less than worthless till my all I give. — Oswald J. Smith
If missions languish, it is because the whole life of godliness is feeble. The command to go everywhere and preach to everybody is not obeyed… — Arthur Tappan Pierson
Self-criticism is not "love," and it is certainly not indifferent. It's a form of hatred. And when I name that, when I see it for… — Danielle LaPorte
Poetry is a solitary process. One does not write poetry for the masses. Poetry is a self-involved, lofty pursuit. Songs are for the people. When… — Patti Smith
When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step aside;… — John Updike
The basis of good manners is self-reliance. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don't eat meat any more, I now eat rice cutlets. — Vladimir Lenin
The first question that offers itself is, whether the general form and aspect of the government be strictly republican? It is evident that no other… — James Madison
I don't want to be labeled as either a pansy or a heterosexual. Labeling is so self-limiting. We are what we do - not what… — Montgomery Clift
If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately finds… — Vaclav Havel
Self-confidence grows on trees, in other people's orchards. — Mignon McLaughlin
Positive thinking is no longer for drifters, dreamers and the perpetually naive. People who think positively see more opportunities, perform better, take more often correct… — Herman Van Rompuy
There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the… — Woodrow Wilson
Such subtle Covenants shall be made,Till Peace it self is War in Masquerade. — John Dryden
Happiness does not consist in self-love. — Joseph Butler
If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness. — Leon Kass
When your sense of self is no longer tied to thought, is no longer conceptual, there is a depth of feeling, of sensing, of compassion,… — Eckhart Tolle
One can develop new capacities and strengths with which to meet the natural vicissitudes of living; that one may gain a sense of inner peace… — Eda LeShan
Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. 'I am' is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry.… — Ramana Maharshi
Sincerity is that whereby self-completion is effected, and its way is that by which man must direct himself. — Confucius
One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole tenor of his behavior must none the… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Valor consists in the power of self recovery. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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