Self Quotes
14166 Self quotes by 6037 unique authors
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But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness - each system only too delighted to find…
— Herbert Butterfield
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All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you.
— Sebastian Coe
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Many of us grow up thinking of mistakes as bad, viewing errors as evidence of fundamental incapacity. This negative thinking pattern can create a self-fulfilling…
— Tony Buzan
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The first lesson in Christ's school is self-denial.
— Matthew Henry
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Until you have given up yourself to Him, you will not have a real self.
— C.S. Lewis
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Confidence in the natural world is self-reliance; in the spiritual world, it is God-reliance.
— Oswald Chambers
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For the Christian, humility is absolutely indispensable. Without it there can be no self-knowledge, no repentance, no faith and no salvation.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false modesty.
— C.S. Lewis
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There are two sins of men that are bred in the bone and that continually come out in the flesh. One is self-dependence and the…
— Charles Spurgeon
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We must surrender ourselves so utterly that we can never own ourselves again. We must hand over self and all its rights in an eternal…
— A B Simpson
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For every look at self, take 10 looks at Christ.
— Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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A form of self-delusion.
— Elbert Hubbard
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I became depressed and I cut my self with scissors and stuff.
— Kelly Holmes
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I am often asked if leaders are born or made. The answer, of course, is both. Some characteristics, like IQ and energy, seem to come…
— Jack Welch
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In every situation, you must lead with your real self, because if you're going to be on the leading edge of management, you sometimes must…
— James Autry
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Self-reliance can turn a salesman into a merchant; a politician into a statesman; an attorney into a jurist; an unknown youth into a great leader.…
— Newell Dwight Hillis
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Faith is the leading grace in all our spiritual warfare and conflict; but all along, while we live, it hath faithful company that adheres to…
— John Owen
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Self belief is just one of the reasons we're younger and looking better today. We're also better educated. We know more about the environment and…
— Deborra-Lee Furness
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Womanpower means the self determination of women, and that means all the baggage of paternalistic society will have to be thrown overboard.
— Germaine Greer
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I have had the experience common to many women, of needing to define myself and to find my self-esteem as a person, not simply as…
— Hazel Hawke
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There are many images and realities of what women are, become, can be - strong, vulnerable, dogged, determined, frail, brave, courageous. The faces of women…
— Jocelynne Scutt
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I see I have made my self a slave to Philosophy.
— Isaac Newton
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Simply making consistent investments in our self-education and knowledge banks pays major dividends throughout our lives.
— Jim Rohn
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The paleoclimate record shouts to us that, far from being self-stabilizing, the Earth's climate system is an ornery beast which overreacts even to small nudges.
— Wallace Smith Broecker
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There are two classes of Christians: the proud who imagine they are humble and the humble who are afraid they are proud. There should be…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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