Self Quotes

You have to have a strong sense of self in this business - otherwise they're going to spit you out.

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.

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.

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

Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.

With my daughter, who at the time was one, my domestic life needed to take more precedent and really with my own self I needed to develop quite a bit more. So that put Blur down the list of priorities quite a lot by the time I came to thinking about it.

To disappear your complete self into a character is quite difficult. I've tried it 85 times, and I've succeeded two or three times.

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

The tension between "yes" and "no," between "I can" and "I cannot," makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.

He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.

It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.

I use fake tan myself with a self tanning spray.

Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.

We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self.

I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall June grasses that grew high as my head. But here the secret working of self consciousness is almost too entangled with the things of the past for me to explain it.

It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.

We can only take it so far, because man can only take it so far, lower self can only take it so far, and you have to realize that the public is only at a certain place.

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.

Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.