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Self Quotes
"Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self-respect springs."
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"Everyone must correct his own self; this is something more difficult to cope with, but it is not impossible."
Self,
138
"You must be a light unto yourself."
92
"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."
56
"When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it."
53
"I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet."
52
"Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?"
Self,
51
"Learn to say 'No' it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin."
50
"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."
49
"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."
48
"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."
48
"There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance."
47
"One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated."
47
"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."
47
"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."
47
"I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become."
47
"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..."
46
"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."
45
"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,
45
"Don't expect too much from people who don't even have respect for themselves."
45
"The self is just not a worthy enough vehicle to worship."
43
"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."
43
"They have their big, ever-changing egos, but none has a self, a core, a sense of identity."
43
"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."
43
"Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them."
42
"Sexy at the millennium means having a solid sense of self but never taking yourself too seriously."
42
"There's merit in being different, inspiration in being individual, courage in being unique, and freedom in being yourself."
42
"Now go stand in the corner and think about what you did."
42
"Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense."
41
"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."
41
"Be great. Get thy "Self". Know who you are. Beyond this body, and being. You are more than what you're seeing."
41
"We are our best friend and our worst enemy we will ever fight with."
41
"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."
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