The Self Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about The Self

The Self Quotes & Sayings

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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why. — Nadine Gordimer

Well, the heart always holds out hope that the mind knows may not likely be met. — Amy Sohn

Thirties. Go to therapy. Clean up all of the sh-t. Clean up all of the toxins and the noise. Understand who you are. Educate yourself on the self. — Jennifer Aniston

Being brave and self-confident doesn't necessarily start inside ... It starts with the rest of the world, and it leads back to you. — Sarah Dessen

Develop new stories from new positive experiences and relationships - the experiences of your emerging new self! — Bryant McGill

It is better to focus on the mission than to earn money. — Lailah Gifty Akita

To double your net worth, double your self-worth. Because you will never exceed the height of your self-image. — Robin Sharma

if a person cannot master the power of self-discipline, it is best not to try to get rich. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

Lovers are not snails; they don't have to protrude from their shells and meet each other halfway. Meet me within your own self. — Jerzy Kosinski

A human being is never what he is but the self he seeks. — Octavio Paz

Do not waste the moment of your life which comes together with death because you will bitterly regret the alienation of your own self. — Sorin Cerin

Confidence cannot escalate to arrogance, it only happens if the blood of pride is running through your veins. — Michael Bassey Johnson

A true Brahmachari will not even dream of satisfying the fleshly appetite — Mahatma Gandhi

The language of feelings is not linear, logical, and verbal like the language of thinking. — Deborah Sandella

Your level of your concentration decides the extent of the realization of your dreams. — Stephen Richards

There is so much love in your heart that you could heal the planet. — Louise Hay

We do not learn for the benefit of anyone, we learn to unlearn ignorance. — Michael Bassey Johnson

If we being to ready the Bible daily; we will awake the divinity of our souls. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A harsh word breaks the heart. A kind word can sooth the savage beast. A word never spoken can bury a burden or save a relationship. — J. Loren Norris

A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it in return from them. — William Hazlitt

I am most grateful to the Lord for the gift of life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

As long as one is involved in worldly interactions, there is pleasure of the mind; and after knowing the Self (Soul), there is bliss of the Soul. — Dada Bhagwan

I don't need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore,
like I always thought I would. — Charlotte Eriksson

Arrogance is the armour of the weak. They are always at war to hide their real self. — Balroop Singh

The loneliness of command had made Eisenhower emotionally self-sufficient. — Jean Edward Smith

Of what use was memory anyway than as a template for one's most reassuring self-deceptions! — Ashim Shanker

I learned the technology and tradecraft of electronic security in self defense, with a lot of expert help. — Barton Gellman

A regular meditation practice is one of the highest forms of self-love. — Renae A. Sauter

No one in the group was really growing up besides me, which is pretty weird 'cause there was no one in that group more self-destructive than I was. — Dee Dee Ramone

No one could have called Mr. Standen quick-witted, but the possession of three sisters had considerably sharpened his instinct of self-preservation. — Georgette Heyer

The cause of suffering is that the unbounded Self is overshadowed by the world. — Patanjali

In the midst of overwhelming noise and distraction, the voice of story is calling us to remember our true selves. — Christina Baldwin

Shake off the self-pity, shake off the defeat and get ready for God to do something new. He is going to pay you back for every injustice. — Joel Osteen

The Who, England's most self-conscious band, have released 'Quadrophenia,' which in turn freezes in time our image of the mid-Sixties Mod sensibility. — Jon Landau

Self-love is having appreciation for oneself, respecting oneself, and caring for oneself, and the actions that help us mature also help it grow. — Tisha Marie Payton, MHR

Present yourself always As who you would be, And that is the person The world will see. — Robert Breault

Sometimes milestones are not measured by the accomplishments of society, but by those of integrity. — Tamara Rose Blodgett

Yes, the same God who created all the universes created you as a one-of-a-kind. He knows you and loves you and commands you to love yourself. — Toni Sorenson

Patience is the inclination to control the racing mind, which wants to jump ahead. — Balroop Singh

Conceited is just another word for self-confident. And sometimes, the only confidence one can depend on is his own. — Suzannah Daniels

Rethink Success: Most people will never achieve past their existing levels, because they don't understand the importance of changing their Mindset — Tony Dovale

I want freedom for the full expression of my personality. — Mahatma Gandhi

So I say a name, even if self-bestowed, is better than a number. In the register of the potter's field I shall soon have both. What wealth! — Ambrose Bierce

The dream is yours ... why are you asking others to validate or nourish it? Your journey must be self-propelled. It must be fueled from within. — Steve Maraboli

We can't control on how each day will fall, but we can control how we fall into each day. Learn to make adjustments to match the circumstances. — Anthony Liccione

The only cause of happiness is love. The only cause of suffering is self grasping. — Garchen Rinpoche

N the face of a true friend a man sees as it were a second self ... — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Self-love is the first teacher of self-renunciation. — Swami Vivekananda

The difference between self-confidence and conceit is as simple as love and fear. Jesus was self-confident ... Hitler was afraid. — Bill Crawford

Lost in the barrage of images and self-serving analysis are the economic and social causes of the conflict. — Michel Chossudovsky

You can get what you want. It depends on the strength of your desire. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Memory and hope constantly incite us to the extensions of the self which play so large a part in our daily life. — Josiah Royce

The God-given vocation of theology is to be a servant of the Truth, never his self-appointed master. — John Clark

Self-reform is the only kind that works. — Mason Cooley

Eating healthy nutritious food is the simple and right solution to get rid of excess body weight effortlessly and become slim and healthy forever. — Subodh Gupta

Everyone is a self-made man. Only the successful admit it. — Will Rogers

Ours is a historical faith, and to uproot the Bible from its historical contexts is self-contradictory. — Peter Enns

The Lord God is my strength. He sustains my spirit. — Lailah Gifty Akita

When healthy competition prevails
you come out to play and you play to win. — Lorii Myers

If you wish the world to become loving and compassionate, become loving and compassionate yourself. — Gary Zukav

For an advanced preceiver, the play of life is to assemble and reassemble the self in alternate realities of which this is one. — Frederick Lenz

In the pages of a book, we are in paradise. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The Golden Rule is a two-edged sword. If some of us treated others as we treat ourselves, we would be jailed. — Richard Paul Evans

The cause of all sins in every case lies in the person's excessive love of self. — Plato

The peak of happiness is attained when a person has accepted to be what he is. — Ogwo David Emenike

Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women. — Naomi Wolf

Censorship defeats the right to self determination. — Billy Forbes

If you experience bliss of the Self (samadhi) amidst complete problematic stage, then know that you have met a "Gnani Purush" [the enlightened one]! — Dada Bhagwan

I find myself in the moment of solitude. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There's a different film being made in every mind. And of course, the star of the film is the mind, the personality, the self. — Frederick Lenz

New Orleans is one of the two most ingrown, self-obsessed little cities in the United States. (The other is San Francisco.) — Nora Ephron

Choose to be the best version of you. — Truth Devour

We are meant to do the work of angels for we are often disguised from ourSelves. — Paresh Shah

The world teaches us to be self-sufficient, self-reliant, self-motivating. But anytime we put self before Savior, we're in trouble — Toni Sorenson

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being. — Mahatma Gandhi

TOBIAS: No one ever said this would be easy, and you don't seem like the type of woman to take the easy way out. — T.S. Joyce

There are two persons in the world we never see as they are,
one's self and one's other self. — Arsene Houssaye

The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it. — George Bernard Shaw

To enter your true self,
check your ego at the door. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen

When you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, the day will come when you can do the things you want to do when you want to do them. — Zig Ziglar

The greed to be loved is a fearful thing. Some of those who say that they live only for love come to live in incessant resentment. — C.S. Lewis

Most of us don't live our lives with one, integrated self that meets the world, we're a whole bunch of selves. — Christopher Moore

Experiencing something of the grace of God should always cause our self-perceived ideas about 'Who He is' and 'How He works' to pop. — Tristan Sherwin

The skeptic, being a lover of his kind, desires to cure by speech, as best he can, the self-conceit and rashness of the dogmatists. — Sextus Empiricus

Wisdom begins in knowing the self. — Abhijit Naskar

The defense mechanisms of The Imposter are: sarcasm, name-dropping, self-righteousness, the need to impress others and the need for others' approval. — Manning Brennan

Cooking may be as much a means of self-expression as any of the arts. — Fannie Farmer

people say things
meant to rip you in half
but you hold the power to not
turn their words into a knife
and cut yourself — Rupi Kaur

Love consumes us only in the measure of our self-surrender. — Therese Of Lisieux

The religion that I advocate, and so did the mortal humans known as Jesus, Buddha and Nanak, is the religion of love, compassion and self-realization. — Abhijit Naskar

Dare the impossible. By grace it will be possible. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I'm a weaver. I'm what is connecting this world to the world you come from. My purpose is to show you your choices. — Brynn Myers

The act of going within, finding our truth, and then sharing it, it helps us far more than we know. — Kamal Ravikant

You have to create your self-belief by going to your core to find the probable reasons for the negativity in you, and then demolish them. — Steve Backley

The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves. — Mark Twain

Those who say life is knocking them down and giving them a tough time are usually the first to beat themselves up. Be on your own side. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Consider the sea's listless chime: Time's self it is, made audible. — Dante Alighieri

We all know the part of us that needs to be harnessed. It takes someone else to know the part of us that needs to be set free. — Robert Breault

Everybody wants confidence but you don't find it in self help books. You find confidence in the Holy Spirit. — Rick Warren

I am a complicated person with a simple life and I am the reason for everything that ever happened to me. — Charlotte Eriksson