Active Quote by Richard Cecil

When we don’t put the brakes on our self-absorption, we have nothing stopping us from total self-destruction. We become the fruits of our actions.

— Zeena Schreck

The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by attaching itself…

— Charles Horton Cooley

Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, "know thyself," but as if prompted by the commandment: will a self, and so become…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We find personal success and great, if not enduring, influence on the outer fashioning of the world allotted to the violent, the passionate individual…

— Richard Wagner

The self is too small an object for perpetual enthusiasm.

— Huston Smith

Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

— Aesop

This gives force to the strong -- that the multitude have no habit of self-reliance or original action.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It turns out that our notions of what a 'self' is and how it might feel fulfilled have no more objective status than most…

— Maureen O'Hara

“There is even in the most selfish passion a large element of self-abnegation. It is startling to realize that we call extreme self-seeking is…

— Eric Hoffer

Self... How or why a person may loose self,!

— Anonymous

Introspecting self is a mission, whose aim is to stay planted in reality.

— Senoraroy