Self Quotes

14166 Self quotes by 6037 unique authors

Christianity takes for granted the absence of any self-help and offers a power which is nothing less than the power of God. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. 'Bad pride' is the deadly sin of superiority… — John C. Maxwell
Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit. — John C. Maxwell
We singer-songwriter people, we're used to getting up and doing our own thing in front of people, and we're it. We're the band, artist, writer,… — Andy Wilkinson
All I know is when I start getting serious about songwriting... it's like a playground. All responsibilities slip away and you're with your essence. There… — Laura Nyro
Let mystery have its place in you ; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination, but leave a… — Henri Frederic Amiel
Night and gin and music-the right setting for peeling off the thin clinging layers of bullshit and finding one's way down closer to the essential… — John D. MacDonald
[T]o love a specific person, and to identify with his or her struggles and joys as if they were your own, you have to surrender… — Jonathan Franzen
Solitude. It is way underrated in our world of writing. We stay busy. We act busy. We thrive on busy. The truth is there is… — Bonnie Baker
Self reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't be proud of what you know, and don't be self-confident if you are learned. Be open to advice from the unlearned as well as… — Barbara De Angelis
Arrogant S.O.B.s run the world. A performer can never have too much self-confidence. The best in every field are likely to strike most people as… — John Eliot
All the same, my depression and self-hatred, my desire to mutilate myself with broken bottles, my numbness and crying fits, my inability to get out… — Hanif Kureishi
The Failure of Will theory is equally popular with people who are not depressed. Get out and take your mind off yourself, they say. You're… — Chase Twichell
But you learn to smother the living breathing soul, go deaf to it, and this violence to the self is what is commonly called sanity… — Philip O Ceallaigh
Are psychiatric crises so overwhelming to the mind that they inhibit the presence of ethics? Is depression at root an amoral phenomenon, its focus on… — Lauren Slater
One trembles to think of that mysterious thing in the soul, which seems to acknowledge no human jurisdiction, but in spite of the individual's own… — Herman Melville
Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives… — Camille Paglia
The feeling of being valuable - 'I am a valuable person'- is essential to mental health and is a cornerstone of self-discipline. — M. Scott Peck
There is abundant reason to believe that optimism - big, little, and in between - is useful to a person because positive expectations can be… — Christopher Peterson
The ultimate goal is two states for two people: Israel as a Jewish state and the homeland for the Jewish people and the State of… — Barack Obama
The real menace of our Republic is the invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities, states and nation.… — John Francis Hylan
If we would listen to our kids, we'd discover that they are largely self-explanatory. — Robert Breault
The world in which we live today-reflecting in so many way the opposite of our sweetness and love-reminds us how desperately important it is to… — Marianne Williamson
Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine,… — Eric Hoffer

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