Self Quotes - page 11

Keen intelligence is two-edged, It may be used constructively or destructively like a knife, either to cut the boil of ignorance, or to decapitate one's self. Intelligence is rightly guided only after the mind has acknowledged the inescapability of spiritual law. (Yukteswar Giri)
I used to be self conscious about my height, but then I thought, f*** that, I'm Harry Potter. View quote
Daniel Radcliffe
One is happy as a result of one's own efforts once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience. View quote
George Sand
Men spend their life down here in the worship of petty (or mean) interests and the search of perishable things, and with that ("et avec cela", Fr.) they pretend to perpetuate for all eternity their self ("moi", Fr.) so hardly worthy ("digne", Fr.) of it. View quote
African Spir
The more a man is successful in getting out (or coming out) from his own individuality, of his egoist self, and to control (or dominate) the instincts of his physical nature, the more his character, by rising above material contingencies, widen, become free and independent. View quote
African Spir
The supreme blossoming of character lies (or reside) in renounciation (or renuncement) and abnegation of self ("abnégation de soi", Fr.) View quote
African Spir
You young people yourselves are capable of performing anything. Our inventors can invent in a high level, Our innovators can innovate in a high level, only if they keep self confidence and believe that we can. View quote
Ruhollah Khomeini
No one is a solitary agent. We all have various types of guides who assist us. Most important, there is a form of God in everyone's heart, and when you put the physical body to rest, you make closer contact with the Lord in the heart and with your higher self. View quote
Bhakti Tirtha Swami
My mentor continued: Selflessness doesn't mean to give up pursuing adventurous goals, but rather to attach ourselves to transcendental goals. Actual selflessness means we must genuinely access humility and submissiveness. This can be very scary, because we normally identify humility and submissiveness with low self esteem. View quote
Bhakti Tirtha Swami
Love seeketh only Self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a hell in heaven's despite. View quote
William Blake
concessions to adversaries only end in self reproach, and the more strictly they are avoided the greater will be the chance of security. (Thucydides)
I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence. View quote
Malcolm X
Whatever posessions and objects of its desires the lower self may obtain, it hangs on to them, refusing to let them go out of greed for more, or out of fear of poverty and need. View quote
Rumi
As you love your own body, so regard everyone as equal to your own body. When the Supreme Experience supervenes, everyone's service is revealed as one's own service. Call it a bird, an insect, an animal or a man, call it by any name you please, one serves one's own Self in every one of them. View quote
Anandamoyi Ma
To the Muslim woman, the hijab provides a sense of empowerment. It is a personal decision to dress modestly according to the command of a genderless Creator; to assert pride in self, and embrace one's faith openly, with independence and courageous conviction. View quote
Randa Abdel-Fattah
The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self- dependence must give each individual the right to choose his own surroundings. View quote
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Nature, body, mind go to death, not we. We neither go nor come. The man Vivekananda is in nature, is born and dies; but the Self we see as Vivekananda is never born and never dies. It is the eternal and unchangeable Reality. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
Be perfectly resigned, perfectly unconcerned; then alone can you do any true work. No eyes can see the real forces; we can only see the results. Put out self, forget it; just let God work, it is His business. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
All is the Self or Brahman. The saint, the sinner, the lamb, the tiger, even the murderer, as far as they have any reality, can be nothing else, because there is nothing else. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
Is there any sex-distinction in the Atman (Self)? Out with the differentiation between man and woman-all is Atman! Give up the identification with the body, and stand up! View quote
Swami Vivekananda
Stand as a rock; you are indestructible. You are the Self (atman), the God of the universe. (Swami Vivekananda)
The Self when it appears behind the universe is called God. The same Self when it appears behind this little universe-the body-is the soul. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
Stand upon the Self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand; knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
This is the great lesson that we are here to learn through myriads of births and heavens and hells-that there is nothing to be asked for, desired for, beyond one's spiritual Self. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
The never-ending task of self improvement. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson