Self Quotes

Sometimes the prison of fear is so powerful there's no need to lock the cell doors. Your fear creates a willingness to self-imprison.

Steve Maraboli

As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.

Arthur C. Clarke

We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light

Mary Dunbar

The first rule of achieving goodness is this: think only about self-perfection.

Leo Tolstoy

My first job was as an assistant in the local library. Self-fulfilling prophecy?

Jodi Picoult

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

Jackson Pollock

It may be called the Master Passion, the hunger for self-approval.

Mark Twain

From the Absolute to the Relative-from the Infinite to the Finite-from the Undifferentiated to the Differentiated-from the Unconditioned to the Conditioned and again from the Relative to the Absolute. That is the whole truth of the inexistance to the existentialist, formless to the form, Creator to the Creature, one to the every being, absolute to the inabsolute and vis-á-vis, soforth every single thing is temporary, non-existed, so do I, the dream that I dreamed off is simply a 'lie and impermanent too' same as in the mortal world whatever I do experience.

Upanishad

Nationalism is power-hunger tempered by self-deception.

George Orwell

In order to be just, you should make a self-sacrifice, be unjust to yourself.

Leo Tolstoy

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.

Albert Einstein

Self-reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.

George Bernard Shaw

Was it worth it? To lose part of who he had been in order to live free? Perhaps this new self was better than the old.

Orson Scott Card

In a swamp, as in meditation, you begin to glimpse how elusive, how inherently insubstantial, how fleeting our thoughts are, our identities. There is magic in this moist world, in how the mind lets go, slips into sleepy water, circles and nuzzles the banks of palmetto and wild iris, how it seeps across dreams, smears them into the upright world, rots the wood of treasure chests, welcomes the body home.

Barbara Hurd

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

Mahatma Gandhi

Self-respect knows no considerations.

Mahatma Gandhi

Wherever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure: a larger heart, and a greater self-restraint, would put a calm autumnal sadness in the place of the instinctive outcry of pain.

Bertrand Russell

It wasn't necessary to know your own demons in order to find God.

Paulo Coelho

The poor man's price of admittance to the favor of the rich is his self-respect.

Ambrose Bierce