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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,
91
"You must be a light unto yourself."
80
"When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it."
43
"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."
42
"There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance."
38
"One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated."
36
"Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?"
Self,
35
"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."
35
"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."
34
"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."
34
"I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet."
34
"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."
33
"A great figure or physique is nice, but it's self-confidence that makes someone really sexy."
Self,
33
"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."
33
"Now go stand in the corner and think about what you did."
33
"Learn to say 'No' it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin."
32
"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."
32
"We are our best friend and our worst enemy we will ever fight with."
32
"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."
32
"Accepting oneself, in all your glory and in all your shortcomings, is a major point in becoming your best possible self."
31
"It is much more important to be oneself than anything else."
31
"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..."
31
"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."
30
"The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents."
30
"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."
30
"Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself."
29
"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."
29
"The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle."
28
"Somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision."
28
"Be great. Get thy "Self". Know who you are. Beyond this body, and being. You are more than what you're seeing."
28
"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,
27
"I do not consider my self as having mastered the flute, but I get a real kick out of trying."
27
"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."
27
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