Self Quotes

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.

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.

The right of self defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals, and whether the attack be made by Spain herself or by those who abuse her power, its obligation is not the less strong.

It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.

Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.

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.

Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.

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.

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.