Self Quotes

I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left.

All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.

I realized that I needed to be anonymous on the street and somebody else on the stage. I had tried to put my street self on the stage, but what they want is an actor on stage.

My best male friend is my best friend until he crosses me. We're all protective of the self.

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day.

But what many psychologists have done, probably because they did well on a test themselves and everyone wants high self esteem, is to create this little box and then do their research inside it.

I have never known a really chic woman whose appearance was not, in large part, an outward reflection of her inner self.

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.

You think you can go into all those auditions not knowing who you are? The work came after I found my sense of self - when I wasn't so manic and desperate.

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.

Then I realized that secrecy is actually to the detriment of my own peace of mind and self, and that I could still sustain my belief in privacy and be authentic and transparent at the same time. It was a pretty revelatory moment, and there's been a liberating force that's come from it.

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.

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.