Self Quotes
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I think that the major message in 'Shrek: The Musical' is be who you want to be. I think that it is about being your true self in this world.
Daniel Breaker
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Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
Demosthenes
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The biggest hindrance to learning is fear of showing one's self a fool.
William Lewis Trogdon
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within that ageing outer shell we remain very much the same as we did in our late teens and early twenties.
Mary Margaret ('Mollie') Kaye
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A taste of righteousness can be easily perverted into an overweening sense of self-righteousness and judgmentalism.
R. Kent Hughes
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No person is free until he or she is free at the center. When we let go there, we are free indeed. When the self is renounced, then one stands utterly disillusioned, apart, asking for nothing. If anything comes to us, it is all sheer gain. Then life becomes one constant surprise.
E. Stanley Jones
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The Indian gods are imposing, the Greek gods are not. Indeed they are not brave, not self-controlled, they have no manners, they are not gentlemen and ladies.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding.
Halle Berry
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When we don’t put the brakes on our self-absorption, we have nothing stopping us from total self-destruction. We become the fruits of our actions.
Zeena Schreck
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It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one's self.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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A scar nobly got is a good livery of honor.
William Shakespeare
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I learned the technology and tradecraft of electronic security in self defense, with a lot of expert help.
Barton Gellman
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I, also, would like to look and smile, sit and walk like that, so free, so worthy, so restrained, so candid, so childlike and mysterious. A man only looks and walks like that when he has conquered his Self. I also will conquer my Self.
Hermann Hesse
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Self-respect to be nourished in the mind of the pupil, is one of the most valuable results of a well conducted education.
William Godwin
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When the heat and motion of blind impulses and passions distract it on all sides, we can neither give nor receive anything truly. But when we find our centre in our soul by the power of self-restraint, by the force that harmonizes all warring element
Rabindranath Tagore
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When God becomes a Man and lives as a creature among His own creatures in Palestine, then indeed His life is one of supreme self-sacrifice and leads to Calvary.
C. S. Lewis
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Self-esteem is something you have to earn!
Bette Midler
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New pressures are causing ever more people to find their main satisfaction in their consumptive role rather than in their productive role. And these pressures are bringing forward such traits as pleasure-mindedness, self-indulgence, materialism, and passivity as conspicuous elements of the American character.
Vance Packard
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The energy is changing here dramatically. That's part of the upheaval of the drama. The dimensional shifts are accelerating. The magnetic energy at the core of the Earth has transformed to take in the new settings of our awakening selves.
Christine McCormick Day
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Unlike art, the consumption of fashion is not based primarily on knowledge or education but functions through visual awareness, a type of sensuality and perception of the corporeal self.
Valerie Fahnestock Steele
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If you're going to self - publish, you need to know why you're doing it, what you want to accomplish, and how you plan to implement that.
Victoria Strauss
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Developing personal power includes learning not to negotiate your self-worth for the sake of someone else or sell yourself short for a job.
Caroline Myss
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I'm totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that's the section they gave me, and I got way into it. I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go.
Jason Mraz
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They were still in the happier stages of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered.
F. Scott Fitzgerald