Self Quotes

Be always sure you're right then go ahead.

I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and i...

There’s just something unsettling about studying your reflection. It’s not a matter of being dissati...

There's more to me than you see, another me down inside somewhere, full of hate, ready to hurt, cut,...

Karma is only in space time and causality. Your real self resides non-locally.

Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity.

Nothing is easier than self-deceit.

All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail u...

Now, here is the point about the self: it is insatiable. It is always, always hankering. It is what ...

It's not about outward appearances but inward significance. A grandeur in the world, but not of the ...

Why am I made the way I am? Why do I care about all the wrong things, and nothing at all for the rig...

I mean we think of phenomenal change as being the very essence of time, when it's not at all. Time i...

We don't like to admit it, but the idea of losing control is one that fascinates controlled people s...

After all, the appeal to stop being yourself, even for a little while, is very great,' he said. 'To ...

Think wrongly if you please but in all cases think for yourself.

I shall stay the way I am Because I do not give a damn.

He had seen the whole Universe stretching to infinity around him—everything. And with it had come th...

Trouble with a long journey like this,' continued the Captain, 'is that you end up just talking to y...

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.

We judge ourselves by our motives and others by their actions.

to be nobody but yourself- in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you everybody ...

Poor Father, I see his final exploration. He arrives at the new place, his hair risen in astonishmen...

People turned out to be alive. Hitherto he had supposed that they were what he pretended to be - fla...

What you usually refer to when you say “I” is not who you are. By a monstrous act of reductionism, t...

What you react to in another you strengthen within yourself.

I seem to have an awful lot of people inside me.

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do...

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because...

The cure for grief is motion.

Be yourself and think for yourself and while your conclusions may not be infallible they will be n...

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone els...

I think somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.

In the long run we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And ...

I'm glad I never feel important it does complicate life.

More people are ruined by victory I imagine than by defeat.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself and know that everything in life has a purpose.

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out but when the dark...

A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.

Best be yourself imperial plain and true!

Experience isn't interesting till it begins to repeat itself-in fact till it does that it hardly i...

There is a solitude which each and every one of us has always carried within. More inaccessible than...

Nature never repeats herself and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another...

I value my ownindependence so highly that I can fancy no degradation greater than thatof having anot...

We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at ...

When people say: she's got everything I've only one answer: I haven't had tomorrow.

There is no balking genius. Only death can silence it or hinder.

The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth.

I’ll walk, but not in old heroic traces,And not in paths of high morality,And not among the half-dis...

We never know how high we areTill we are called to rise;And then, if we are true to plan,Our stature...

Consciousness is the only home of which we know.

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

It’s a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell y...

What gets scary is when your self-worth is tied up in what strangers think of you.

Don’t let anyone tell you what you can and can’t do or achieve. Do what you want to do and be who yo...

To believe that if only we had this or that we would be happy or to pursue any excessive desire di...

Fair play with others is primarily not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us.

The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.

Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

Indeed, with the experience of self disappears the experience of identity - and when this happens, m...

Man can attempt to become one with the world by submission to a person, to a group, to an institutio...

Why should anyone be so grateful for acceptance unless he doubts that he is acceptable, and why shou...

You can deceive yourself with truth too. That's an even more dangerous dream.

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

I am not a glutton-I am an explorer of food.

Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out. If there's nothing or very little the sh...

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to...

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting ...

What is this 'I'? If you analyse it closely you will, I think, find that it is just a little bit mor...

No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The "I" is chained to anc...

No Self stands alone. Behind it stretches an immense chain of physical and - as a special class with...

Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to defin...

Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to fin...

The more I want to be oblivious, the less I can be. Life and light will not let me be.

If you put a woman in a man's position she will be more efficient but no more kind.

I am an ordinary person but carried to extremes.

Every time I start a picture ... I feel the same fear the same self-doubts ... and I have only one ...

The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real lif...

Great mysteries inhabit the threshold of my being.

Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!

At the end of this day there remains what remained yesterday and what will remain tomorrow: the insa...

From so much self-revising, I’ve destroyed myself. From so much self-thinking, I’m now my thoughts a...

Is it that my habit of placing myself in the souls of other people makes me see myself as others see...

My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and ...

My past is everything I failed to be.

Our problem isn't that we're individualists. It's that our individualism is static rather than dynam...

Love understands love it needs no talk.

Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves...

Each of us comes into being knowing who he is and what he is supposed to do.' ... 'Small children kn...

Your mind is a treasure house that you should stock well and it’s the one part of you the world can’...

Along with people in other creative professions, such as artists and musicians, many scientists expe...

Along with people in other creative professions, such as artists and musicians, many scientists expe...

Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.

Human nature, essentially changeable, unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds its...

It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it is ridiculous to show it to others.

A man who finds no satisfaction in himself seeks for it in vain elsewhere.

Only by pursuing the extremes in one's nature with all its contradictions appetites aversions ra...

Style is something peculiar to one person it expresses one personality and one only it cannot be s...