Self Quotes
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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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It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one's self.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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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I know who I am. I have a very strong sense of self.
Kristen Stewart
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Never underestimate the power of self-absorption, including your parents' self-absorption.
Rita Mae Brown
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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 the healthy pursuit of self-interest and self-realizatio n turns into self-absorption , other people can lose their intrinsic value in our eyes and become mere means to the fulfillment of our needs and desires.
P. M. Forni
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If you keep hiding your true self, your life becomes like slow death. Once you become free from the lies and the hiding of yourself, then life becomes vibrant again.
Ziggy Marley
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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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The higher nature in man always seeks for something which transcends itself and yet is its deepest truth; which claims all its sacrifice, yet makes this sacrifice its own recompense. This is man's dharma, man's religion, and man's self is the vessel.
Rabindranath Tagore
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The battle of yoga is with the body and with the ego. You must conquer your ego, or small self, so that you can let your soul, your big Self, be victorious.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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Scripture sees hell as self-chosen. . . Hell appears as God's gesture of respect for human choice. All receive what they actually chose. Either to be with God forever, worshipping Him, or without God forever, worshipping themselves.
J. I. Packer
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Self-interest, to be sure, is one of the most important, but we have many other motives - honesty, self-respect, altruism, love, sympathy, faith, sense of duty, solidarity, loyalty, public-spiritedness, patriotism, and so on - that are sometimes even more important than self-seeking as the driver of our behaviors.
Ha-Joon Chang
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I have brothers, and that so-called boyish quality was something that I was deathly self-conscious about when I was younger.
Kristen Stewart
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I encourage breaking free of self inflicted holding pens. I encourage the use of intelligence in every decision. I encourage creating.
Erykah Badu
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Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.
Ralph Marston
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Never before have self-suffiency and education been so important, and they are virtually inseparable from survival.
William Powell
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I don't stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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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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Make up your mind that you will become the seeker of your own higher self.
Ma Jaya
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That's the person I plan on being for a very long time: someone who stands up, someone who is an advocate for people, [even if it's for] something that some people think is only hair. I think it's more than just that. I want to be a spokesperson for self-love and for diversity.
Zendaya
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I've got a transcendental way of thinking about things. I've got a galactic self.
Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
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Wouldn't have no knowledge of wealth, without no knowledge of self.
Nelly
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By a kind of happy pre-established harmony, such as a later age discovered between the needs of society and the self-interest of the individual, success in business is in itself almost a sign of spiritual grace, for it is a proof that a man has laboured faithfully in his vocation.
R. H. Tawney