Self Quotes

14166 Self quotes by 6037 unique authors

Failure is all a matter of perspective. Think of all the people you admire. I guarantee you they all failed at one time or another.… — Jillian Michaels
Fear forces us to spend our lives dealing with it, ostensibly to overcome it. But that is a trick. Only fear (the illusion of separation)… — Cheri Huber
Friends broaden our horizons. They serve as new models with whom we can identify. They allow us to be ourselves-and accept us that way. They… — Judith Viorst
Kindness is too often left uncultivated, because men do not sufficiently understand its value. Men may be charitable and not kind; merciful, yet not kind;… — Frederick William Faber
There is a God and He is good, and his love, while free, has a self imposed cost: We must be good to one another. — George H. W. Bush
Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne'er… — Walter Scott
Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite. — William Blake
Being famous before you've formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous. — Chris Evert
If I should go before the rest of you Break not a flower nor inscribe a stone, Nor when I'm gone speak in a Sunday… — Joyce Grenfell
I've let a lot of things go, and obviously football is one of them. I think the hardest thing to let go is your self-image.… — Ricky Williams
My best male friend is my best friend until he crosses me. We're all protective of the self. — Neil LaBute
Your mental diet largely determines your character and your personality and almost everything that happens to you in life. When you feed your mind with… — Brian Tracy
You cannot slay yourself in me, Nor I to all eternity Destroy my truest self in you. — William Rose Benet
The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and "mangled mind" leaking… — Elizabeth Drew
I don't hate myself, as a general rule. I'd say the best way to describe it is that I have moments of self-loathing at fairly… — Janeane Garofalo
This is not a matter of virtue-it's a matter of my choosing to do the work of somehow altering or getting free of my natural,… — David Foster Wallace
Be a lifelong student. The more you learn, the more you earn and the more self-confidence you will have. — Brian Tracy
The players have no real self-esteem when it comes to putting the best image out there in a real competitive fashion. — Oscar Robertson
Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying,… — June Jordan
President Ford was a devoted, decent man of impeccable integrity who put service to his country before his own self interest. He helped heal our… — Mark Udall
He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man. — Mencius
Oh, hasten not this loving act, Rapture where self and not-self meet: My life has been the awaiting you, Your footfall was my own heart's… — Paul Valery
It behooves our citizens to be on their guard, to be firm in their principles, and full of confidence in themselves. We are able to… — Grace Lee Boggs
We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world - mad, even, from… — R. D. Laing

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