Self Quotes

The tension between "yes" and "no," between "I can" and "I cannot," makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.

He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.

It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.

I use fake tan myself with a self tanning spray.

You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well.

Between takes I find it difficult to switch off and then try and re-emerge myself in the part, so I try to stay in that frame of mine all day. It can be exhausting and you lose a sense of self, but it is the method that works best for me.

I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes, where a woman's personality and sense of self are revealed. I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman.

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

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

You have to have a strong sense of self in this business - otherwise they're going to spit you out.

You hope that your teenage self would like and forgive your 50-year-old self.

If indeed this is the work of God... then it's a crisis that calls for the church to be its very best self, and not worry about risking itself for the right thing.

Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.

The self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishes it from other objects and from the body.

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.

To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.

The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.

This above all; to thine own self be true.

I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.

Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self.

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

My heart goes out to the Lindsay Lohans and Britneys who have really had childhood taken from them and probably missed important developmental steps. They have become sort of 'public domain' and something to be made money on. There's no sense of self there, I'm sure of it.

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.

I love it when the left and when the president say, 'Don't try to impose your values on us, you folks who hold your Bibles in your hand and cling to your guns.' They have values too. Our values are based on religion, based on life. Their values are based on a religion of self.

True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.

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.

I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.

Girls' inner critics are starting to reveal themselves at a younger and younger age. And body image issues are an aspect of their lives which is causing them low self esteem and day-to-day suffering.

The fight for justice against corruption is never easy. It never has been and never will be. It exacts a toll on our self, our families, our friends, and especially our children. In the end, I believe, as in my case, the price we pay is well worth holding on to our dignity.