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Self Quotes
"Everyone must correct his own self; this is something more difficult to cope with, but it is not impossible."
Self,
118
"You must be a light unto yourself."
88
"What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."
54
"When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it."
49
"I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet."
48
"I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.All seems beautiful to me.Whoever denies me, it shall not trouble me; Whoever accepts me, he or she shall be blessed, and shall bless me."
47
"Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?"
Self,
47
"Learn to say 'No' it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin."
47
"My great mistake the fault for which I can't forgive myself is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality."
44
"There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance."
44
"Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession."
43
"She looked at the girl in the mirror and the girl in the mirror looked back at her. I will be brave, thought Coraline. No, I am brave."
43
"One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated."
42
"To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it's hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody."
42
"Don't expect too much from people who don't even have respect for themselves."
41
"I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become."
41
"Be great. Get thy "Self". Know who you are. Beyond this body, and being. You are more than what you're seeing."
40
"I am as I am, and that's all there is to it, I can hardly take a pair of scissors to myself, and cut out a different person..."
40
"Now go stand in the corner and think about what you did."
40
"We are our best friend and our worst enemy we will ever fight with."
39
"A great figure or physique is nice, but it's self-confidence that makes someone really sexy."
Self,
38
"Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore it if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world."
38
"A certain something, he felt, had managed to work its way in through a tiny opening and was trying to fill a blank space inside him. The void was not one that she had made. It had always been there inside him. She had merely managed to shine a special light on it."
38
"Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another."
38
"I think I'm much less self confident today. I actually went through a quite painful period because of that thinking that I was completely hopeless. But I think that's something that we all go through at various times of our lives and it was quite a sustained thing with me."
37
"The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle."
37
"Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part of the lives of my characters, as well, albeit on a much different level."
37
"Accepting oneself, in all your glory and in all your shortcomings, is a major point in becoming your best possible self."
37
"They have their big, ever-changing egos, but none has a self, a core, a sense of identity."
37
"We're so concerned with the idea of what we ought to be that we fail to take into account the things that make us who we really are."
37
"People think they are not satisfied with what they have but in true sense they are not satisfied with what they are."
37
"It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor."
Self,
36
"A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride."
36
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