Self Quotes

14166 Self quotes by 6037 unique authors

That love at first sight should happen to me, was Life's most delicious revenge on a self-opinionated fool. — Charles Boyer
There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale authentic copy; a… — Umberto Eco
I plan to stand by nonviolence, because I have found it to be a philosophy of life that regulates not only my dealings in the… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Genius is nothing more or less than childhood recovered by will, a childhood how equipped for self-expression with an adult's capacities. — Charles Baudelaire
The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history. — John F. Kennedy
The end of every maker is himself. — Thomas Aquinas
The fact that man produces a concept "I" besides the totality of his mental and emotional experiences or perceptions does not prove that there must… — Albert Einstein
What you must dare: is to be yourself. — Dag Hammarskjold
The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When the creative flow dries up, all we have left is… — Eric Hoffer
Man, like Deity, creates in his own image. — Elbert Hubbard
The mainspring of creativity appears to be the same tendency which we discover so deeply as the curative force in psychotherapy, man's tendency to actualize… — Carl Rogers
Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. — Harold Rosenberg
What's curious about the left's current obsession with Timothy McVeigh is that it proves that - despite a frantic search for 15 years - liberals… — Ann Coulter
Our culture has few taboos that can't be violated, and our establishment has largely given up on setting standards in the first place. Except where… — Ross Douthat
Can you dissolve your ego? Can you abandon the idea of self and other? Can you relinquish the notions of male and female, short and… — Laozi
When the beginnings of self destruction enter the heart, it seems no bigger than a grain of sand. — John Cheever
The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts… — Edward Dahlberg
If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of his history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he… — Arthur Koestler
The working of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self interest, carelessness and sheer mistake. Only a… — George Santayana
We don't call it sin today, we call it self-expression. — Max Stirner
A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved… — H. L. Mencken
Love is reckless; not reason. Reason seeks a profit. Loves comes on strong, consuming herself unabashed. Yet in the midst of suffering love proceeds like… — Unknown Author
Because golf exposes the flaws of the human swing - a basically simple maneuver - it causes more self-torture than any game short of Russian… — Grantland Rice
One really ought to be afraid of self-torture. But it tempted me. It begged. The dark place that my mind was fast becoming blends, in… — Marya Hornbacher
To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is… — Mahatma Gandhi

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