Self Quotes

Learning too soon our limitations we never learn our powers.

The brave man carves out his fortune and every man is the sum of his own works.

Who was the real me? I can only repeat: I was a man of many faces.At meetings I was earnest, enthusi...

The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization ...

So this was what it was like not to be me.

Was I like honey thinking it's a small bear, not realizing the bear is just the shape of its bottle?...

When you're rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even thoseyou love.

Violence of the tongue is very real- sharper than any knife.

My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality.

I hear the singing of the lives of women. The clear mystery the offering the pride.

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

Khird-Mandon Se Kya Puchon Ke Meri Ibtida Kya HaiKe Main Iss Fikar Mein Rehta Hun, Meri Intiha Kya H...

Khuda tujhe kisi toofaan se aashna karde,Ke tere behr ki maujon men iztiraab naheenMay God grant you...

The Grameen clinics prove that a medical system 'for the poor' can be almost entirely self-supportin...

Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree but smiles.

You are what your creators and experiences have made you, like every other being in this universe. A...

To discover the exact location of a 'thing' is a simple matter of factual research. To discover the ...

I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'to...

There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem the more likely one will tr...

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self ...

It was one of those moments—which sometimes occur only at the interval of years—when a man's moral a...

I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!

I don't have a lot of patience for stories in which women are rescued by men.

To bite off your shadow is neither easy nor painless. It demands a single-mindedness that is almost ...

You're a poem?' I repeated.She chewed her lower lip. 'If you want. I am a poem, or I am a pattern, o...

Though we rush ahead to save our time, we are only what we feel

We are not our own light.

The price we paid for the volumes of ourselves that we suffocated in the dark.

Aside from myself, there was no sign of me.

The ability to take pride in your own work is one of the hallmarks of sanity.

With the passage of days in this godly isolation [desert], my heart grew calm. It seemed to fill wit...

(U)derneath all the complexity of human life that uneasy stare at an alien nature is still haunting ...

It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of but my own.

Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.

He who seeks for applause only from without has all his happiness in another's keeping.

As far as you can avoid it, do not give grief to anyone. Never inflict your rage on another. If you ...

It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious fe...

It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are-not necessarily a religious feel...

I always introduce myself as an encyclopedia of defects which I do not deny. Why should I? It took m...

I once heard a tale of a man who split himself in two.The one part never changed at all; the other g...

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he'll tell you the truth

Why had it been left for a stranger to reveal him to himself?

My great mistake the fault for which I can't forgive myself is that one day I ceased my obstinate ...

The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of...

In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds...

To realise one's nature perfectly—that is what each of us is here for.

It is wisest to be impartial. If you have health, but are attached to it, you will always be afraid ...

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself in spite of being unacceptable.

To penetrate one's being one must go armed to the teeth.

It wasn't necessary to know your own demons in order to find God.

It's a force that appears to be negative, but actually shows you how to realize your destiny. It pre...

No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human ...

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

No one can figure out your worth but you.

Everybody wants to do something to help but nobody wants to be first.

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour...

Man who man would be must rule the empire of himself.

There is no me. I do not exist. There used to be a me, but I had it surgically removed

There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.

The problem with introspection is that it has no end.

But suppose your dæmon settles in a shape you don't like?Well, then, you're discontented, en't you? ...

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

I am indeed a king because I know how to rule myself.

Learn what you are and be such.

The life which is unexamined is not worth living.

All men love themselves.

The man who masters his own soul will forever be called conqueror of conquerors.

Truth is a relationship. As such, each one of us receives the truth and expresses it from within, th...

If I can be my crazy, wild self in front of a person, and he still likes me, that's romantic.

Inner beauty should be the most important part of improving one's self.

If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all childr...

Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest the more strongly...

Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain?

I want to unfold.I don’t want to be folded anywhere,because where I am folded,there I am a lie.

Discontent is want of self-discipline it is infirmity of will.

Self-command is the main elegance.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much but I am my own comedy and tragedy.

Accept the place the divine providence has found for you.

Your problem is you're ... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.

If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the mi...

For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage ca...

One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.

Your duty is to be and not to be this or that. 'I am that I am' sums up the whole truth. The method ...

Change excites me. I am fifty years old. It's when the mind catches up with the body.

Once you get rid of the idea that you must please other people before you please yourself and you b...

I was always willing to take a great deal of the burden of getting along in life on my own shoulders...

I was not a classic mother. But my kids were never palmed off to boarding school. So I didn't bake ...

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

I think I possess because I do not try to give,Trying to give, I see that I have nothing.

When I turn my mind's eye upon myself, I understand that I am a thing which is incomplete and depend...

Thus the perception of the infinite is somehow prior in me to the perception of the finite, that is,...

He had lived and acted on the assumption that he was alone, and now he saw that he had not been. Wha...

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

I... know what I do and am unmoved by men's blame or their praise either.

When the fight begins within himself a man's worth something.

God knows I'm no the thing I should be Nor am I even the thing I could be.

O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us. It wad frae money a blunder free...