Self Quotes

Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops.

When I cut the feet out of my pantyhose that one time, I saw it as my sign. I had been visualizing being self employed prior to this happening. It was my mental preparation meeting the opportunity in that moment.

Martial art is a form of expression, an expression from your inner self to your hands and legs.

Like blind hens, we are ignorant of our own self and the depths within us.

What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.

In a tribal organization, even in time of peace, service to tribe or state predominates over all self seeking; in war, service for the tribe or state becomes supreme, and personal liberty is suspended.

There is only one issue: man's lack of experience in feeling his Divine self and his innate connection with the Divine. All other issues stem from this.

To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.

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

This marched was planned to be non violent and non confrontational, and gladly it stayed that way. What really impressed me was the self discipline of the Black Block.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and with as much certitude as his own self.

Self esteem comes from doing something and accomplishing something.

To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature.

It's the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.

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.

It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

I think what I would say to my younger self, and probably to younger, just starting-out writers is that a lot of times you're just afraid to put yourself out there, and it's uncomfortable because it's working up the courage to do something, to push yourself to do those things.

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

To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad.

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Love is the outreach of self toward completion.

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

The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.

You've got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society.

Fame is damaging when people become reliant on it for their sense of self, and their identity, when fame is linked to how you see yourself.

The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self.

Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.