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Self Quotes
"Everyone must correct his own self; this is something more difficult to cope with, but it is not impossible."
Self,
49
"There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance."
24
"What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."
23
"I think I'm much less self confident today. I actually went through a quite painful period because of that thinking that I was completely hopeless. But I think that's something that we all go through at various times of our lives and it was quite a sustained thing with me."
20
"When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it."
20
"A certain something, he felt, had managed to work its way in through a tiny opening and was trying to fill a blank space inside him. The void was not one that she had made. It had always been there inside him. She had merely managed to shine a special light on it."
18
"We are our best friend and our worst enemy we will ever fight with."
16
"The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents."
15
"Be great. Get thy "Self". Know who you are. Beyond this body, and being. You are more than what you're seeing."
14
"Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part of the lives of my characters, as well, albeit on a much different level."
13
"Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession."
13
"Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy."
13
"Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore it if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world."
12
"Sexy at the millennium means having a solid sense of self but never taking yourself too seriously."
12
"There's merit in being different, inspiration in being individual, courage in being unique, and freedom in being yourself."
12
"Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself."
12
"Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?"
Self,
12
"In a few seconds, we judge another person and think we know them. When, the person we've lived with the longest, we still don't know very well-ourselves."
12
"My great mistake the fault for which I can't forgive myself is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality."
11
"That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident."
Self,
11
"I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else."
Self,
11
"A great figure or physique is nice, but it's self-confidence that makes someone really sexy."
Self,
11
"I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get."
11
"She looked at the girl in the mirror and the girl in the mirror looked back at her. I will be brave, thought Coraline. No, I am brave."
11
"I visited many places, Some of them quite Exotic and far away, But I always returned to myself."
10
"We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge--and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves--how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves?"
10
"I developed a great sense of self-confidence when I was very young."
10
"I am my own biggest critic. Before anyone else has criticized me, I have already criticized myself. But for the rest of my life, I am going to be with me and I don't want to spend my life with someone who is always critical. So I am going to stop being my own critic. It's high time that I accept all the great things about me."
10
"All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final."
Self,
10
"There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody."
9
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