Self Quotes

It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.

Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.

When we contemplate the heroes of Christianity, and compare our feeble efforts with their astonishing performance and self devotion, we should fall into despair, were there not a few softening features, by which they are brought back to the ranks of humanity.

Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.

I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never a gain elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty.

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.

Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.

For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.

The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.

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 a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.

Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self.

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.

With my daughter, who at the time was one, my domestic life needed to take more precedent and really with my own self I needed to develop quite a bit more. So that put Blur down the list of priorities quite a lot by the time I came to thinking about it.

To disappear your complete self into a character is quite difficult. I've tried it 85 times, and I've succeeded two or three times.

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

The tension between "yes" and "no," between "I can" and "I cannot," makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.

He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.

It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.

I use fake tan myself with a self tanning spray.

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.