Self Quotes

• Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.

  

  Ted Hughes
  • World
  • Good
  • Opportunity

• If guys practiced self-control, 'modesty' wouldn't be such a huge deal.

  

  Zach Hunter
  • Guy
  • Control
  • Modesty

• Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Fight
  • Self
  • Survival

• Intrapreneurs consider them-selves on a mission to help society, to give it what it needs and wants, to truly serve others and improve themselves. Like all producers, they believe in a deep accountability, refuse to assign blame, don't believe in failure, and give their heart and sould to truly serve the customer and benefit society.

  

  Oliver DeMille
  • Believe
  • Heart
  • Help

• Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

  

  Nancy Astor
  • Real
  • Education
  • Humanity

• I think that I have self esteem issues, really. If you really analyse it... People who really like me I have no interest in. The unattainable is always that I want to attain.

  

  Karan Johar
  • People
  • Think
  • Self

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

  

  Seth Godin
  • Self
  • Productive
  • Versions

• Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • True
  • Self
  • Consequences

• The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Universe
  • Ocean
  • Self

• The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • World
  • Knowledge
  • Self

• Never measure or compare yourself to anyone other than your past self, seek to always improve & you'll be happy and successful.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Happy
  • Self
  • Measure

• Beauty means expression and being your most authentic self.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Beauty
  • Self
  • Most

• Authenticity is very important - be true to one's self.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Important
  • True
  • Authenticity

• Sadly, black people disassociate ourselves from the things which make us who we are, identifying them as lesser, or inferior. It's a form of self hate. So, with reckless abandon, we strive to be like the majority.

  

  Nate Parker
  • People
  • Black
  • Hate

• All ages have said and repeated that one should strive to know one's self. This is a strange demand which no one up to now has measured up to and, strictly considered, no one should. With all their study and effort, people are directed to what is outside, to the world about them, and they are kept busy coming to know this and to master it to the extent that their purposes require. . . . How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to. And what is your duty? Whatever the day calls for.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Self

• I go fishing for a thousand monsters in the depths of my own self.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Self
  • Fishing
  • Monsters

• I was horribly self-conscious; I wanted everybody to look at me and think me the most fascinating creature in the world, and yet I died a small hideous death if I saw even one person throw a casual glance at me.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Death

• I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Myself
  • Memory
  • Self

• If you only share your best pictures, or your Facetuned self, the thought of people seeing you as you truly are can be scary.

  

  Kaia Gerber
  • People
  • Best
  • Thought

• My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Life
  • Why
  • My Life

• The days of the digitals are numbered. The metaphor is built into them like a self-destruct mechanism.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Built

• Yoga is about the will, working with intelligence and self-reflexive consciousness, can free us from the inevitability of the wavering mind and outwardly directed senses.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Mind
  • Free
  • Yoga

• Transgression of any kind is always accompanied by a loss of self-esteem.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Kind
  • Loss
  • Esteem

• Where self-interest is violently suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control which dries up the wellsprings of initiative and creativity.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Control
  • Creativity

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