Self Quotes

I would rather take the role and work and make my own money and self respect than to have sex with someone who has a lot of money.

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.

A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

I believe that fashion is the ultimate form if self expression therefore it really depends on my mood.

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.

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

I think your self emerges more clearly over time.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.

The American people expect public servants to be able to police themselves. But instead of designing a system to enforce ethical conduct, Tom Delay and his cohorts have implemented a self protection system. Obviously, it wasn't good for democracy.

Philosophically, what I have learned is to thy own self be true. That is the biggest lesson of all. Relax; music is fun. To many people take it to seriously because of the money involved.

Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.

It's not like my old self - I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore.

Aikido is not merely about fighting and the development of the physical self but the perfection of the spiritual man at the same time. It has very harmonious movements, very beautiful to watch and beautiful for your body to feel.

The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.

The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested or disinterested, because the objects of them all are equally self or somewhat else.

Beloved, till life can charm no more; And mourned, till Pity's self be dead.

You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well.

Between takes I find it difficult to switch off and then try and re-emerge myself in the part, so I try to stay in that frame of mine all day. It can be exhausting and you lose a sense of self, but it is the method that works best for me.

I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes, where a woman's personality and sense of self are revealed. I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman.

I do not consider my self as having mastered the flute, but I get a real kick out of trying.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

You have to have a strong sense of self in this business - otherwise they're going to spit you out.

You hope that your teenage self would like and forgive your 50-year-old self.

If indeed this is the work of God... then it's a crisis that calls for the church to be its very best self, and not worry about risking itself for the right thing.

Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.

The self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishes it from other objects and from the body.

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.

To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.