Self Quotes
Quotes about Self
72 quotes
- “Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his o...” — Herbert Otto
- “Others may argue about whether the world ends with a bang or a whimper. I just want to make sure mine doesn't end with a...” — Barbara Gordon
- “We do not make beams from the hollow decaying trunk of the fallen oak. We use the upsoaring tree in the full vigor of it...” — Sylvia Pankhurst
- “Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things our own meditation must form our judgem...” — Isaac Watts
- “There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous s...” — Hindu Proverb
- “Imagination was given to us to compensate for what we are not a sense of humor was provided to console us for what we ar...” — Mack Mcginnis
- “I will write of him who fights and vanquishes his sins who struggles on through weary years against himself ... and wins...” — Caroline Begelow Lerow
- “To succeed is nothing-it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character...” — Marie Leneru
- “No one can really pull you up very high-you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains...” — Louis Brandeis
- “Changing yourself is not about changing of what you are. But changing other's perspective that they always think you are...” — Dancolin Flamiano
- “Metals' has partly been about me regaining my self respect and I feel like I'm growing the muscles I want to grow again.” — Feist
- “Blessed are they who heal us of self-despisings. Of all services which can be done to man I know of none more precious.” — William Hale White
- “Who is apt on occasion to assign a multitude of reasons when one will do? This is a sure sign of weakness in argument.” — Harriet Martineau
- “You've got to ensure that the holders of an opinion however unpopular are allowed to put across their points of view.” — Betty Boothroyd
- “One's self-image is very important because if that's in good shape then you can do anything or practically anything.” — Sir John Gielgud
- “To make the choice for independent survival the great man's wife has to become convinced of her own intrinsic worth.” — Joanna T. Steichen
- “Talking too much too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster.” — Meg Greenfield
- “Kill the snake of doubt in your soul crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.” — Kate Seredy
- “Every man is his own ancestor and every man his own heir. He devises his own future and he inherits his own past.” — H. F. Hedge
- “A man needs self-acceptance or he can't live with himself he needs self-criticism or others can't live with him.” — James A. Pike
- “To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn.” — Gertrude Atherton
- “Accept your defeats With your head up and your eyes open With the grace of woman not the grief of a child ...” — Kara Digiovanna
- “Saying "yes" to yourself means acknowledging what you have that's good and working on the things that aren't.” — Patricia Fripp
- “There is only one way to end a self-pity cycle: stop comparing yourself to others and simply follow Christ.” — Linda Harry
- “Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.” — Bodhidharma
- “Goethe said there would be little left of him if you were to discard what he owed to others.” — Charlotte Cushman
- “I won't explain why. If you're interesting, you'll find out who I am. One clue, I'm a ghost.” — Eka Prasetyani
- “I simply love being me. You have no power to control my feelings because I own my own heart” — Che Acebido
- “To accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections.” — Sandra Bierig
- “To be born free is an accident to live free a responsibility to die free is an obligation.” — Mrs. Hubbard Davis
- “Age is totally unimportant. The years are really irrelevant. It's how you cope with them.” — Shirley Lord
- “I have come back again to where I belong not an enchanted place but the walls are strong.” — Dorothy H. Rath
- “Be content with what you are and wish not change nor dread your last day nor long for it.” — Martial
- “He can inspire a group only if he himself is filled with confidence and hope of success.” — Floyd V. Filson
- “Change occurs when one becomes what she is not when she tries to become what she is not.” — Ruth P. Freedman
- “The only person that you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday” — Ain Eineziz
- “The best things in life must come by effort from within not by gifts from the outside.” — Fred Corson
- “We don't want to push our ideas on to customers we simply want to make what they want.” — Laura Ashley
- “Change excites me. I am fifty years old. It's when the mind catches up with the body.” — Raquel Welch
- “A woman that's too soft and sweet is like tapioca pudding-fine for them as likes it.” — Osa Johnson
- “We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.” — Ethel Barrett
- “I shall be an autocrat that's my trade and the good Lord will forgive me that's his.” — Catherine The Great
- “If arrogance is the heady wine of youth then humility must be its eternal hangover.” — Helen Van Slyke
- “There are no old people nowadays they are either "wonderful for their age" or dead.” — Mary Pettibone Poole
- “Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.” — Stephen Spender
- “If one is cruel to himself how can we expect him to be compassionate with others?” — Hasdai Ibn Shaprut
- “Thales was asked what was most difficult to man he answered: "To know one's self.” — Diogenes
- “Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves or you will never find it.” — Bertha Von Suttner
- “Such to me is the new image of aging growth in self and service for all mankind.” — Ethel Percy Andrus
- “I want to be remembered as the person who helped us restore faith in ourselves.” — Wilma Pearl Mankiller