Self Quotes

I live in the crowds of jollity not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

When any fit of gloominess or perversion of mind lays hold upon you make it a rule not to publish...

Despair is criminal.

To hear complaints is wearisome to the wretched and the happy alike.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak they are but the instruments of the wise.

An individual, a thing apart from its environment, and apart from all things in that environment; an...

No man does anything from a single motive.

IIA grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear,      A stifled, drowsy, unimpassioned grief,      W...

Everywhere I go, it's me and me. Half of me living my life, the other half watching me live it.

Everyone has attitude, and I think everyone should have attitude. But I know I have attitude, but th...

We'd start slow, the way we always did, because the run, and the game, could go on for awhile. Maybe...

The challenge of modern freedom, or the combination of isolation and freedom which confronts you, is...

The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and th...

I think the most productive thing to do during times of change is to be your best self, not the best...

If a man doesn't delight in himself and the force in him and feel that he and it are wonders how is...

I can be somebody's and still be my own.

I'm quite aware of my differences. I wouldn't classify them as weird

Interest in the lives of others the high evaluation of these lives what are they but the overflow ...

If I could know me I could know the universe.

public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.

Whether it was work marriage or family I've always been a late bloomer.

It is the thought that the least efficient way of of finding either happiness or pleasure is to purs...

Humility is attentive patience.

Living by proxy is always a precarious expedient.

Let women be provided with living strength of their own.

To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it's hard to conv...

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind your talents the creativity you bring to your life a...

As far as beauty is concerned in order to be confident we must accept that the way we look and feel...

The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.

What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!

It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has m...

The Unknown is not the Unknowable; it need not remain the unknown for us, unless we choose ignorance...

You are who you are when nobody's watching.

Being sorry for myself is a luxury I can't afford.

Sometimes things work just because you think they work. It's as good a definition of faith as any.

Go with your bad self.

You haven't finished the key, but not because you are afraid to finish. You're afraid of finding you...

Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.

Never give way to melancholy resist it steadily for the habit will encroach.

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

Cautious careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing nev...

Independence is happiness.

Woman must not depend upon the protection of man but must be taught to protect herself.

Oh yes. I'd do it all again the spirit is willing yet I feel the same desire to do the work but t...

The older I get the greater power I seem to have to help the world I am like a snowball-the furthe...

As it turns out social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health...

He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.

As long as you can find yourself, you’ll never starve.

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until... we have stopped saying ...

Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves their abilities their f...

Never give way to melancholy resist it steadily for the habit will encroach.

Then I thought, "No, I broke it myself. I broke it on purpose to pay myself back for being such a he...

By seeing the multitude of people around it, by being busied with all sorts of worldly affairs, by b...

A human being is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a...

The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were no...

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

Whatever the hell I am, I am Me.

He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down and without walls.

Everybody tries to protect this vulnerable two three four five six seven eight year old inside, and ...

Byron: The luxuries of this place have made me soft.The metal point's gone from my pen, there's noth...

My closest relation is myself.

If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent...

Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.

Don't be curious of matters that don't concern you never speak of them and don't ask about them.

What Althusser does… is to rethink the concept of ideology in terms of Lacan’s ‘imaginary’. For the ...

And I'm made up of everyone I've ever met who's changed the way I think. So who is "me"?

It's vital to remember who you really are. It's very important. It isn't a good idea to rely on othe...

The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.

I care not what others think of what I do but I care very much about what I think of what I do. Tha...

Every tub must stand on its own bottom.

Every tub must stand on its own bottom.

Every tub must stand on its own bottom.

Every tub must stand on its own bottom.

Every tub must stand on its own bottom.

Every tub must stand on its own bottom.

Every tub must stand on its own bottom.

Every tub must stand on its own bottom.

Even if this is only nonsense and dreams, I feel the need to perpetuate it all. Especially at this m...

Hypocrisy—in other words, the practice of lying about lying—shields us from seeing ourselves as we a...

No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.

What the collective age wants allows and approves is the perpetual holiday from the self.

At thirty a man steps out of the darkness and wasteland of preparation into active life it is the ti...

First of all, although men have a common destiny, each individual also has to work out his own perso...

Perhaps I am stronger than I think.

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

Some are young people who don't know who they are, what they can be or even want to be. They are afr...

Our thinking will automatically improve when we remember the words of Paul: 'know ye not that ye are...

The proverb warns that "You should not bite that hand that feeds you." But maybe you should if it p...

Why is erasing desire seen as so important? If the subjugation of the self is the point of the self ...

You must love and care for yourself because that's when the best comes out.

Your self…is other people, all the people you're tied to, and it's only a thread.

I carry inside myself my earlier faces, as a tree contains its rings.

There are three types of baseball players-those who make it happen those who watch it happen and t...

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the f...

Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

Not like the me was some tough somebody, or somebody she had put together for show. But like, like s...

I've always seen myself as a winner even as a kid. If I hadn't I just might have gone down the dra...

When he was in the army he'd picked up a great many girls: sometimes nothing happened except a lot o...