Self Quotes
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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.
Charles Dickens
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Remember He is the artist and you are the picture. You can’t see it, you can't see your true self. So quietly submit to be painted.
C. S. Lewis
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The Prophet Joseph Smith warned us to ‘beware of self-righteousness’ and to enlarge our hearts toward all men and women until we feel ‘to take them upon our shoulders.
Neil L. Andersen
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There's a lot of movies about self absorbed white men and I just figured it's about time to make a movie about self absorbed black men.
Neil Drumming
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In addition, black folks need to attend green conferences, too. We just self-segregate and don't go. They might even waive your fee if you apply on a diversity basis, because they'd be so shocked to see somebody from a different background wanting to be a part of the green movement.
Van Jones
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Of course I was wearing make-up, I never went anywhere without red lipstick for 25 years! It was a form of self-preservation for me to continue to wear lipstick even though my face was broken.
Nan Goldin
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As long as you do not live totally in the body, you do not live totally in the Self.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.
Coleman Dowell
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The true self is not aware that it is a self. A bird, as it sings, sings itself. But not according to a picture. It has no idea of itself.
D. H. Lawrence
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Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily health to self-realization.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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There's a level of self-hatred in giving these people too much power. They're sorry. They're corny. They're hateful. They need some help. Help is on the way. We'll help them whether they like it or not.
Van Jones
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I do a lot of laughing at my own self in life, so I think I come at things with a pretty easygoing view.
Andy Samberg
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We all have a lifelong habit of inferiority to our full self..."
William James
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I want to be as self-reliant as possible and do it all from within.
Karch Kiraly
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Now the stage today is to know that Self Realization gives you experiences and then your faith is established. Not blind but open enlightened faith.
Nirmala Srivastava
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No visiting angel, or explorer from another planet, could have guessed that this bland orb [Earth] teemed with vermin, with world-mastering, self-torturing, incipiently angelic beasts.
Olaf Stapledon
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The voice of the Constitution is the inescapably solemn self-consciousness of the people giving the law unto themselves.
E. L. Doctorow
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A complete lack of caution is perhaps one of the true signs of a real gourmet: he has no need for it, being filled as he is with a God-given and intelligently self-cultivated sense of gastronomical freedom.
M. F. K. Fisher
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In order to love your enemies, you must begin by analyzing self.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.
William Francis Buckley
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I do not believe in self-proclaimed parties.
Ernest Mandel
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If my former self and my current self met for coffee, they'd get along OK, but they'd both probably walk out of the Starbucks shaking their heads and saying to themselves, “That guy is kinda delusional.”
A. J. Jacobs
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Today, with America being a beleaguered global power, in part because of its own mistakes, it is absolutely essential that the American democracy refocuses its concerns towards global issues and does not approach its own specific problems on the basis of, to some extend, self-induced fear.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Let your former selves teach you, but never limit or define you
Yasmin Mogahed