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Self Quotes
"You must be a light unto yourself."
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"Everyone must correct his own self; this is something more difficult to cope with, but it is not impossible."
Self,
69
"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."
33
"There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance."
31
"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."
31
"When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it."
31
"Now go stand in the corner and think about what you did."
30
"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."
29
"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."
29
"Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?"
Self,
27
"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."
25
"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."
24
"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."
24
"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."
24
"Accepting oneself, in all your glory and in all your shortcomings, is a major point in becoming your best possible self."
24
"One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated."
24
"I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet."
24
"We are our best friend and our worst enemy we will ever fight with."
24
"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."
23
"Be great. Get thy "Self". Know who you are. Beyond this body, and being. You are more than what you're seeing."
23
"It is much more important to be oneself than anything else."
22
"Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself."
22
"Learn to say 'No' it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin."
22
"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."
22
"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,
21
"A great figure or physique is nice, but it's self-confidence that makes someone really sexy."
Self,
21
"I do not consider my self as having mastered the flute, but I get a real kick out of trying."
21
"Before you chase success, status, power, wealth fame or love; first fall in love with yourself - for the person you'll be if and when you get there is still the same. Success will be a painful path and an empty trophy without self acceptance, self worth or if littered with self hate."
21
"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,
20
"Sexy at the millennium means having a solid sense of self but never taking yourself too seriously."
20
"Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy."
20
"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."
20
"The self is just not a worthy enough vehicle to worship."
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