Self Quotes - page 5

Writing itself is a dream. There are days of self doubt and deadlines and wondering how you're going to pay the bills until you write that bestseller. But it's still the best job I've ever had. I've also been able to help a lot of people and even inspire a few and that feels great. (Graham Brown)
Practice sharing the fullness of your being, your best self, your enthusiasm, your vitality, your spirit, your trust, your openness, above all, your presence. Share it with yourself, with your family, with the world. View quote
Jon Kabat-Zinn
I still haven't found the place where I can be my true self. But maybe you never get to be your true self, either. View quote
Karen Joy Fowler
We're self obsessed and mad and stupid - not that other people can't be the same way - but the extremes are kind of honest in some mad way. Anyway, I like them. View quote
Kenneth Branagh
The goal of art was the vital expression of self. View quote
Alfred Stieglitz
My best male friend is my best friend until he crosses me. We're all protective of the self. View quote
Neil LaBute
On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger. View quote
Hu Shih
When a human being becomes so still that they begin to lose awareness of their gender, and they are simply looking into that abyss where there is no notion of self whatsoever, the world disappears. And that's really the only place to go. It's the only place to remain. View quote
Andrew Cohen
Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed. View quote
Indra Devi
Be yourself, but always your better self. View quote
Karl G. Maeser
I've never... when I was having songs on the airwaves, and that sort of thing, I never felt a sense of pressure anywhere except from myself, to do things the way I wanted to do them; to feel authentic; to feel like I was presenting my true self to the world. (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
I never give my real self. I have a hundred sides, and I turn first one way and then the other. I am playing a deep game. I have a number of strong cards up my sleeve. I have never been myself, excepting to two friends. View quote
Mary MacLane
It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life. View quote
Queen Christina
I'm a firm believer that actors take to work who they aren't at home. People show their other self in their art or in their work. View quote
Robin Tunney
There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance. View quote
Vash Young
That ignorant confidence in one's self and one's future, which comes in life's first dawn, has a sort of mournful charm in experienced eyes, who know how much it all amounts to. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them. View quote
José Martí
Poets often have a conscious awareness that they are struggling with the daimonic, and that the issue is their working something through from the depths which push the self to a new plane. View quote
Rollo May
Obsession with self is the motif of our time. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged. View quote
Charles de Lint
Before games are played in common, no rules in the proper sense can come into existence. Regularities and ritualized schemas are already there, but these rites, being the work of the individual, cannot call forth that submission to something superior to the self which characterizes the appearance of any rule. (Jean Piaget)
By travelling across frontiers, on horseback and in the imagination, Montaigne invited us to to exchange local prejudices and the self division they induced for less constraining identities as citizens of the world. View quote
Alain de Botton
There is no respect for others without humility in one's self. View quote
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws. View quote
Richard Francis Burton
This must be our belief when we have a correct knowledge of our own self, and comprehend the true nature of everything; we must be content, and not trouble our mind with seeking a certain final cause for things that have none, or have no other final cause but their own existence, which depends on the Will of God, or, if you prefer, on the Divine Wisdom. View quote
Maimonides