Self Quotes

When we contemplate the heroes of Christianity, and compare our feeble efforts with their astonishing performance and self devotion, we should fall into despair, were there not a few softening features, by which they are brought back to the ranks of humanity.

I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never a gain elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty.

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.

Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.

For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.

The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.

I would rather take the role and work and make my own money and self respect than to have sex with someone who has a lot of money.

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.

A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

I believe that fashion is the ultimate form if self expression therefore it really depends on my mood.

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.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

I think your self emerges more clearly over time.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.

Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly.

The American people expect public servants to be able to police themselves. But instead of designing a system to enforce ethical conduct, Tom Delay and his cohorts have implemented a self protection system. Obviously, it wasn't good for democracy.

Philosophically, what I have learned is to thy own self be true. That is the biggest lesson of all. Relax; music is fun. To many people take it to seriously because of the money involved.

Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.

It's not like my old self - I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore.

Aikido is not merely about fighting and the development of the physical self but the perfection of the spiritual man at the same time. It has very harmonious movements, very beautiful to watch and beautiful for your body to feel.

The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.

The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested or disinterested, because the objects of them all are equally self or somewhat else.

Beloved, till life can charm no more; And mourned, till Pity's self be dead.

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.