Self Quotes - page 9

Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree. (Antoine de Saint Exupéry)
Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become. View quote
Maxwell Maltz
I wish that we had much more of the Spirit of Christ and a great deal less self, and less of human opinions. If we err, let it be on the side of mercy rather than on the side of condemnation and harsh dealing. View quote
Ellen G. White
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy-not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self analysis. What is it that makes you happy? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call "following your bliss." View quote
Joseph Campbell
A person likes to think of himself in a certain way, and when something happens that makes that no longer possible, you mourn the old self. The person you thought you were. View quote
Laurell K. Hamilton
My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I? View quote
Flip Wilson
To be good is to be in harmony with ones self. Discord is to be forces to be in harmony with others. View quote
Oscar Wilde
We may be sure that it is the love of God only that can make us come out of self. If His powerful hand did not sustain us, we should not know how to take the first step in that direction. View quote
François Fénelon
True love goes ever straight forward, not in its own strength, but esteeming itself as nothing. Then indeed we are truly happy. The cross is no longer a cross when there is no self to suffer under it. View quote
François Fénelon
[...]a person stops searching for information and knowledge of one's self, ignorance sets in. View quote
Robert Kiyosaki
If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self. (Napoleon Hill)
Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It's a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead of what one is. I know this well...Vanity and dishonesty may be vices, but they're also the first forms of protection I ever knew. View quote
Dennis Lehane
Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the pursuit of all that is high and holy. Its foundation is faith; its action, works; its temper, holiness; its aim, obedience to God in improvement of self, and benevolence to men. View quote
Jonathan Edwards (theologian)
When I started writing I was a great rationalist and believed I was absolutely in control. But the older one gets, the more confused, and for an artist I think that is quite a good thing: you allow in more of your instinctual self; your dreams, fantasies and memories. It's richer, in a way. View quote
John Banville
It takes courage... to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives. View quote
Marianne Williamson
When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again. View quote
Marianne Williamson
Self growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no higher investment. View quote
Stephen Covey
Leaders are not born or made - they are self made. View quote
Stephen Covey
Whatever doubts or vexations one has in Japan, it is only necessary to ask one's self: "Well, who are the best people to live with?" View quote
Lafcadio Hearn
Searching nature I taste self but at one tankard, that of my own being. View quote
Gerard Manley Hopkins
My own heart let me have more have pity on; let Me live to my sad self hereafter kind, Charitable; not live this tormented mind With this tormented mind tormenting yet. (Gerard Manley Hopkins)
Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty's self and beauty's giver. View quote
Gerard Manley Hopkins
The self... is not an organic thing that has a specific location, whose fundamental fate is to be born, to mature, to die; it is a dramatic effect arising diffusely from a scene that is presented. View quote
Erving Goffman
The degree that the individual maintains a show before others that he himself does not believe, he can come to experience a special kind of alienation from self and a special kind of wariness of others. View quote
Erving Goffman
Love of others begins with love of self. View quote
Robert Silverberg