Self Quotes
14166 Self quotes by 6037 unique authors
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See If You Can Give Yourself Gifts That May Be True Blessings, Such As Self-Acceptance
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
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In building a path through the self to the far shore of awareness, we have to carefully pick our way through our own wilderness. If…
— Mark Epstein
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Pain and suffering are two completely difference experiences. Pain is unavoidable. Suffering is self-created.
— Noah Levine
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My dog doesn't worry about the meaning of life. She may worry if she doesn't get her breakfast, but she doesn't sit around worrying whether she…
— Joko Beck
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The roots of all living things are tied together. Deep in the ground of being, they tangle and embrace. This understanding is expressed in the…
— Joan Halifax
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All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, averice and sloth know some…
— Angus Wilson
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To achieve great things we must be self-confined...mastery is revealed in limitation.
— Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
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I know when to say no and when to say yes. I take responsibility for my choices. The victim? She went somewhere else. The only…
— Melody Beattie
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We can stop picking on ourselves for picking on ourselvesWe can cherish ourselves and our lives. We can nuture ourselves and love ourselves. We can…
— Melody Beattie
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It’s very important for entrepreneurs to be realistic. So if you believe on that first day while you’re writing the business plan that there’s a…
— Jeff Bezos
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For most people, self-awareness and self-pity blossom simultaneously in early adolescence. It's about that time that we start viewing the world as something other than…
— Tom Robbins
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All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.
— Tom Robbins
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Self-esteem is an inner feeling: Sometimes it corresponds with outer reality, and sometimes it doesn’t.
— Stanley Greenspan
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The essence of successful discipline is not technique; rather, it is self-confidence.
— John Rosemond
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Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.
— Mary Pipher
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You have a deeper, wiser, loving self that you can always ask for help.
— Annette Funicello
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The education situation which most effectively promotes significant learning is one in which (1) threat to the self of the learner is reduced to a…
— Carl Rogers
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In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close-knit communities, and our faith in God, too many of us now tend to…
— Jimmy Carter
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In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. From time to time we've been tempted to believe…
— Ronald Reagan
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Now we're getting a whole generation of kids who have never had a football team in L.A., so they don't miss it and don't ask…
— Leigh Steinberg
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Respectability and security are subtle traps on life's journey. Those who are drawn to extremes are often nearer to renewal and self-discovery. Those trapped in…
— John O'Donohue
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Develop discipline of self so that you do not have to decide and re-decide what you will do when you are confronted with the same…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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Self-plagiarism is style.
— Alfred Hitchcock
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Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations.
— Vaclav Havel
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Our sense of self-worth is the single most important determinant of the health, abundance, and joy we allow into our lives.
— Dan Millman
Who Wrote These Self Quotes
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