Self Quotes

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end, one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self.

In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.

It's difficult to believe in yourself because the idea of self is an artificial construction. You are, in fact, part of the glorious oneness of the universe. Everything beautiful in the world is within you.

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

I found one remaining box of comics which I had saved. When I opened it up and that smell came pouring out, that old paper smell, I was struck by a rush of memories, a sense of my childhood self that seemed to be contained in there.

Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.

Note to self: Never ride a motorcycle in stilettos and a miniskirt.

Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully.

To take refuge with an inferior is to betray one's self.

Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.

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.