Self Quotes
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A liberated woman is one who feels confident in herself, and is happy in what she is doing. She is a person who has a sense of self-it all comes down to a freedom of choice.
Betty Ford -
The self is just our operation center, our consciousness, our moral compass. So, if we want to act more effectively in the world, we have to get to know ourselves better.
Gary Wolf
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The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
One of the things women poets have been engaged in - among the other things they've been doing - is revising parts of the poetic self. Re-examining notions of the authority within the poem, and of the poem.
Eavan Boland -
The belief that consciousness extends beyond death is surely to put more belief in the permanence of self, not less. That seems to me a comfort that you're allowing yourself.
Zadie Smith -
A scar nobly got is a good livery of honor.
William Shakespeare -
If I could give my teenaged self any advice, it would be 'Calm down!'
Zooey Deschanel -
On the outside, he was back to his old self. Only, I knew there was a wound living inside him, and that wound wasn’t going away anytime soon.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.
Salman Rushdie -
If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.
Ramana Maharshi -
I have never known a really chic woman whose appearance was not, in large part, an outward reflection of her inner self.
Mainbocher -
Wouldn't have no knowledge of wealth, without no knowledge of self.
Nelly -
I believe whoever has the most energy wins. You need energy to win at your relationship, win in your career, win as a parent, win at being your highest potential self.
Karen Salmansohn -
Understand this: we are both tiny and massive. We are nothing more than molded clay given breath, but we are nothing less than divine self-portraits, huffing and puffing along the mountain ranges of epic narrative arcs prepared for us by the Infinite Word Himself.
N.D. Wilson
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If there is anything about your 'self' of which you can be sure, it is that it is anchored in your own body and yours alone. The person you experience as 'you' is here and now and nowhere else.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran -
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 -
Self-esteem is something you have to earn!
Bette Midler -
I think it's important to have your own individual style and sense of self. It's kind of what I do.
Kat Graham -
In any Christian view of life, self-fulfillment must never be permitted to become the controlling issue. The issue is service, the service of real people. The question is, 'How can I be most useful?', not, 'How can I feel most useful?'
D. A. Carson -
I want to show my true self, not how I want to be seen by others.
Kwon Ji-yong Big Bang
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I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
A. S. Byatt -
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.
Sabrina Carpenter -
It's no accident that most self-help groups use 'anonymous' in their names; to Americans, the first step toward redemption is a ritual wiping out of the self, followed by the construction of a new one.
Walter Kirn