Self Quotes

It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq.

I think it is important to maintain a sense of self and confidence, not letting either falter for the sake of a particular part or project, no matter how great it might be.

On 'Into The Wild' I spent months risking my life and on 'Speed Racer' I spent 60 days acting in front of a green screen. No danger to my physical self, but I sure had to use my imagination.

And yet because of my attempt at sincerity I have been condemned, hooted at, reviled; filthy rumors have been circulated about me, not about my characterizations but about me personally, my private self.

Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it to us holds.

I think I'm learning to be bolder in my career choices and be more confident in my personal life. I haven't always felt very secure as an individual, but now I feel I certain confidence and sense of self that gets me through the day a lot better than before.

I'm asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self, but I couldn't say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I don't know myself at all yet.

At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.

It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.

I was being called to surrender the very citadel of my self. I was completely in the dark. I did not really know what repentance was or what I was required to repent of. It was indeed the turning point of my life.

I'm a firm believer that actors take to work who they aren't at home. People show their other self in their art or in their work.

To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

The discussion of ideas as opposed to the American narcissistic obsession with what's going on with the self, that's the general thing people are talking about.

He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.

I was lucky I was raised by parents who gave me a lot of sense of self and a lot of confidence in myself.

I've never... when I was having songs on the airwaves, and that sort of thing, I never felt a sense of pressure anywhere except from myself, to do things the way I wanted to do them; to feel authentic; to feel like I was presenting my true self to the world.

What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?

I have to understand what my strengths and limitations are, and work from a true place. I try to do this as best I can while still protecting my writer self, which more than ever needs privacy.

The easiest person to deceive is one's self.

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.

It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.

The goal of art was the vital expression of self.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

Basins of attraction, of self organization, show up as well in our complex social environment, in human organizations. Here again, while we cannot predict the result of any given input, we can say that it will likely fall within one of several areas.

We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs.