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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,
36
"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."
22
"There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance."
17
"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."
16
"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."
16
"When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it."
15
"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."
12
"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."
11
"We are our best friend and our worst enemy we will ever fight with."
11
"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."
10
"Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?"
Self,
10
"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."
9
"There's merit in being different, inspiration in being individual, courage in being unique, and freedom in being yourself."
9
"That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident."
Self,
8
"We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge--and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves--how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves?"
8
"Our thoughts, imaginations, and actions are what make us into who we are."
8
"Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy."
8
"All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final."
Self,
8
"Accept yourself irrespective of your imperfection and express your skills."
7
"I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else."
Self,
7
"Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state."
7
"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."
7
"Sexy at the millennium means having a solid sense of self but never taking yourself too seriously."
7
"Be great. Get thy "Self". Know who you are. Beyond this body, and being. You are more than what you're seeing."
7
"You destruct the attention the world gives you when you mistrust your own ability."
6
"I visited many places, Some of them quite Exotic and far away, But I always returned to myself."
6
"I developed a great sense of self-confidence when I was very young."
6
"Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby help the sufferer; if not, attend your own work, and already the evil begins to be repaired. Our sympathy is just as base. We come to them who weep foolishly, and sit down and cry for company, instead of imparting to them truth and health in rough electric shocks, putting them once more in communication with their own reason. The secret of fortune is joy in our hands. Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide: him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire."
6
"What we perceive about ourselves is greatly a reflection of how we will end up living our lives."
6
"Like it or not, we are all in business and the products we are selling is our unique selves."
6
"He stood for twenty minutes in the bedding aisle at Target, trying to choose a manly sheet set, then picked the ones with a violet pattern, because he liked violets and who else was ever going to see his sheets, anyway?"
6
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