Self Quotes

The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes and as an object subject to the same laws as other objects.

I'm channelling my 14-year-old self. She's thinking about putting on her big hoop earrings and baggy pants and going to the mall downtown.

It wasn't until we got over the self pity that we were able to accept suffering as apart of our life with Christ. A man or woman reaches this plane only when he or she ceases to be the hero.

To me, redneck is a sense of self and a way of life.

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.

But let's face it, I still have to look at my self and look at the things I've done down the stretch.

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

Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.

Baseball gives a growing boy self poise and self reliance.

I think I'm much less self confident today. I actually went through a quite painful period because of that thinking that I was completely hopeless. But I think that's something that we all go through at various times of our lives and it was quite a sustained thing with me.

Art was something I could do better. It gave me a sense of self.

The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.

To be in a couple, do you have to put your single self on a shelf?

Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.

True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.

To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.

You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - father, mother, wife, children - everything that you have. But the one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's 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 teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

Given the opportunity, under the right conditions, two cells from wildly different sources, a yeast cell, say, and a chicken erythrocyte, will touch, fuse, and the two nuclei will then fuse as well, and the new hybrid cell will now divide into monstrous progeny. Naked cells, lacking self-respect, do not seem to have any sense of self.

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.

I can't give more than I have. It doesn't matter if I am the most beautiful person in the room. There is inevitably going to be somebody way shinier and more tan than my pasty self.

Secular artists see themselves with performance; they are more self involved, presentational.