Self Quotes

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.

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 greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

I became much happier when I realized I shouldn't depend solely on my career for my sense of self. So I developed other interests and surrounded myself with a small group of friends I could trust.

It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.

Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.

It's just so fragile. The growing sense of 'Oh, God, what am I doing? Am I any good? Will I ever work again?' All those questions of self doubt, they do creep in.

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

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.

With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.

I developed a sense of self before moving to crazy Hollywood, which was really important.

When you start becoming really successful, the demons start to tempt you - the demons of vanity and self importance, drug abuse, the feelings of fraudulence. But, it's also a thrill. That's what I found weird.

Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

The most difficult part of playing Christ was that I had to keep up the image around the clock. As soon as the picture finished, I returned home to Sweden and tried to find my old self. It took six months to get back to normal.

Of course, with the increasing number of aeroplanes one gains increased opportunities for shooting down one's enemies, but at the same time, the possibility of being shot down one's self increases.

Religion is the call to confront reality; to master the self.

I've always tried to stay true to my authentic self.

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

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