Self Quotes

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.

The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.

No day-to-day mishaps or indignities can really compromise your sense of self after you've survived a deep tragedy.

On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.

I think there is something a little too self conscious about enjoying being an outsider.

It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.

The self is hateful.

Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason its self.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

If people could understand how much pleasure they could have by themselves, I think everyone would be a lot saner. I think that people really need a dose of quality time with one's self.

The self is just not a worthy enough vehicle to worship.

The calm mind allows one to connect with the inner self, the Soul, the very source of our being. That's where the music lives. That's where my music comes from.

It just didn't feel right to let my child scream and holler and thrash by her little self in the dark in her crib when I knew full well that a little rocking in her glider, maybe a song and a sweet nuzzle of her cheek would send her off to dreamland.

Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.

Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.

The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.

The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.

Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.

It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.

My real self is probably more creative and more frightening than any sort of drink or drug-induced state.

Join me in my quest for a greater understanding of our existence. Join me in my desire for a greater self. Join me as I seek the humility to love and understand my fellow man.

Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

Religion is the call to confront reality; to master the self.

In conclusion we may say, in view of the confirmation that our study has given of the parallelism between individual and racial thought of the Self, that in the history of psychology we discern the great profile which the race has drawn on the pages of time.

I think we probably will end up in America because he would be giving up much more to come and live here. If you want to work in film, that's really where you have to be. But I'm not sure that being an ex-pat is very good for one's sense of self.

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.

Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb!