Self Quotes

It is undoubtedly easier to believe in absolutes, follow blindly, mouth received wisdom. But that is self-betrayal.

John Ralston Saul

The self is hateful.

Blaise Pascal

I used to think that if I were a certain kind of person I would spend all my time creating something beautiful. Well, it turns out I am, and I am.

Jason Letts

It is from the education of the new generations that we will especially be able to expect a real moral progress. It is important first of all to develop in it (or 'him', the next generations...) self-control, love of truth and solidarity spirit.

African Spir

An apology given just to appease one's conscience is self-serving and better left unspoken!

Evinda Lepins

Self-righteousness loves to pounce on an evil which by sheer accident is not its particular evil.

Vernon Howard

To think profoundly, to seek and speak truth, to love justice and denounce wrong is to draw upon one's self the ill will of many.

John Lancaster Spalding

...You need to fall deeply in love with your self.

Anne Lamott

Sometimes our Biggest Nightmare turns out to be our Biggest Gift. And it all comes down to our attitude. Life will throw us curve balls and disappointments, even heartbreak. But ultimately we can choose if we're going to be Bitter or Better for the experience.

Kathryn Orford

Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.

Henry David Thoreau

The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Stop in somebody's shadow to rest and cool down, and you are lost. No one can make anyone else happy.

Peter Deunov

Your inner strength is your outer foundation

Allan Rufus

Kings are surrounded with persons who are wonderfully attentive in taking care that the king be not alone and in a state to think of himself, knowing well that he will be miserable, king though he be, if he meditate on self.

Blaise Pascal

Why had it been left for a stranger to reveal him to himself?

Oscar Wilde

When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.

Drew Barrymore

No aacomplishments are important than self realization of self satisfaction.

Santosh Kalwar

In our thrifty populations of merchants, manufacturers, politicians, and professional men, there is little sense for beauty, little pure thought, little genuine culture; but they are prosperous and self-satisfied.

John Lancaster Spalding

Your dreaming self seeks to tell you something your waking ears will not hear

Jacqueline Carey

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd,I stand and look at them long and long.They do not sweat and whine about their condition,They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God,Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things,Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago,Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.

Walt Whitman