Self Quotes

Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself.

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology.

In our society, the ideal self is bold, gregarious, and comfortable in the spotlight. We like to think that we value individuality, but mostly we admire the type of individual who's comfortable 'putting himself out there.'

To disappear your complete self into a character is quite difficult. I've tried it 85 times, and I've succeeded two or three times.

In the past I would self destruct when it came to love - I was immature, throwing myself into things but now times have changed, I want a relationship where you understand the other person.

Since I've started fighting it has taught me a lot about self respect, self confidence and self control.

Whenever you see people talking about how real they are or how normal they are, it seems odd to have that self awareness that you could potentially not be normal.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

Having a self, even a simple self, allows you to look into the world and put a mark over what is more important and less important. It's a way of classifying the world in terms of your own needs.

In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions of who we are' operate on precisely the same principles that we do.

Of necessity, the autobiographical self is not just about one individual but about all the others that an individual interacts with. Of necessity, it incorporates the culture in which the interactions took place.

Some of us, for better or worse, develop very stable, consistent, and largely predictable machineries of self. But in others, the self machinery is more flexible and more open to unexpected turns.

You still have only one self and one identity. However, self, identity and personality are not things, they are not objects, and they certainly are not rigid. Instead, they are biological processes built within the brain from numerous interactive components, step by step, over a period of time.

College was just so essential for my sense of self and my development.

I realized that I needed to be anonymous on the street and somebody else on the stage. I had tried to put my street self on the stage, but what they want is an actor on stage.

I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.

I'll tell you, I think that the Internet has provided an enormous boost to film criticism by giving people an opportunity to self publish or to find sites that are friendly.

Keep a journal, and learn how to see how you as an individuals sees information so you can learn your own sign language. Meditate and practice psychic self defense and surrounding yourself with prayer.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

'Metals' has partly been about me regaining my self respect and I feel like I'm growing the muscles I want to grow again.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way.

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

I do not consider my self as having mastered the flute, but I get a real kick out of trying.

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.

There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little basis for validating his own self.

We need a self because the complexity of the chemical processes that make up our individual humanities exceeds the processing power of our brains.

If it takes you seven years to write each novel, you need a patron. And I would rather have my corporate self as my patron than any arts council or bestower of grants.

I think there's a natural link between the fact that our self is a story that we make up and that we're drawn to stories. It resonates, in a way.

If your sense of self is destabilised, to imagine being another becomes pretty easy.

Love places someone else in the centre of your being and your own self is blurred.

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.

It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.

I think privacy is important, and it's important you don't bore people with your own boring self.

Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.

I'd go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I didn't know who I was. And things just get really dark.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

I believe in God, but even if you don't, you can believe in a self, the person who is innately who you are. Once you fully become that person, then everything you do will be blessed.

Social issues have been used to distract Americans from their own self interests since Nixon's southern strategy, and now people are paying the price.

Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument.

My friends tell me that I've calmed down, that I seem more centered. I don't know, I think my inner self was more hollow before, which made me more scattered, and more needy to get laughs.

Be that self which one truly is.

My best male friend is my best friend until he crosses me. We're all protective of the self.

I have a strong sense of self, but that's not a negative thing.

Writers don't always know what they mean - that's why they write. Their work stands in for them. On the page, the reader meets the authoritative, perfected self; in life, the writer is lumbered with the uncertain, imperfect one.

'Dance to the Music' was just Sly Stone being his natural crazy self right from the beginning. The man was an original and his first AM hit was nothing if it wasn't the example per excellence of the Sly Stone music machine.

A journal of the 'subjective' kind I have always thought foolish, as nurturing a morbid self -consciousness in the writer; and yet, alone so much as I am, it is well to have some sort of a ventilator from the interior.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth.

One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.

If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.

Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly.

It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.