Self Quotes

14166 Self quotes by 6037 unique authors

All human beings are entrepreneurs. When we were in the caves we were all self-employed . . . finding our food, feeding ourselves. Thatâ€™s where… — Muhammad Yunus
If The World Does Not Change Course, We Risk Self-Destruction. — Mohamed ElBaradei
Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part of the lives of my… — Terry Brooks
The artist is always a servant, and is perpetually trying to pay for the gift that has been given to him as if by miracle.… — Andrei Tarkovsky
Keep from prying into other people's affairs, for such prying gives occasion for slander, judgment, and other grievous sins. Why do you need to be… — Tikhon of Zadonsk
It seems like people are all the time making themselves themselves, but they don't really know it. You can only have true vision when you… — Elizabeth Berg
People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves. — Anton Chekhov
People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-esteem, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning. — W. Edwards Deming
To watch an American on a beach or crowding into a subway, or buying a theater ticket, or sitting at home with his radio on,… — Alistair Cooke
Censor: A self-appointed snoophound who sticks his nose in other people's business. — Bennett Cerf
Youth is not entirely a time of life; it is a state of mind. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People… — Douglas MacArthur
Races didn't bother the Americans. They were something a lot better than any race. They were a People. They were the first self-constituted, self-declared, self-created… — Archibald MacLeish
Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a cajoling tone to the… — George Eliot
The realization of the self is only possible if one is productive, if one can give birth to one's own potentialities. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Four innate sentiments dispose people to a universal moral sense. These are sympathy, fairness, self-control and duty. — James Q. Wilson
Do not imagine that an integral being has the ambition of enlightening the unaware or raising worldly people to the divine realm. To her, there… — Laozi
The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned. — Carlos Fuentes
Aside from higher considerations, charity often operates as a vastly wise and prudent principle-a great safeguard to its possessor. Men have committed murder for jealousy's… — Herman Melville
If those friends who blame...could see what we see, and feel what we feel, they would be the first to wonder that those redeemed by… — Unknown Author
Whereas the average individuals "often have not the slightest idea of what they are, of what they want, of what their own opinions are," self-actualizing… — Abraham Maslow

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