Self Quotes - page 4

One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas - and you have to work through it all. (V. S. Naipaul)
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that. View quote
Pearl Bailey
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self. View quote
Agnes Repplier
Traveling is a fool's paradise... I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there besides me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Something was still there, that something that distinguishes an artist from a performer the revealing of self. Here I be. Not for long, but here I be. In sensing her mortality, we sensed our own. View quote
Studs Terkel
The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause. View quote
Eric Hoffer
This above all; to thine own self be true. View quote
William Shakespeare
To know is not too demanding: it merely requires memory and time. But to understand is quite a different matter: it requires intellectual ability and training, a self conscious awareness of what one is doing, experience in techniques of analysis and synthesis, and above all, perspective. View quote
Carroll Quigley
Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another. (Toni Morrison)
Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves. View quote
Nathaniel Branden
Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land Whose heart hath neer within him burnd, As home his footsteps he hath turnd From wandering on a foreign strand If such there breathe, go mark him well For him no Minstrel raptures swell High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonord, and unsung. View quote
Walter Scott
How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him. View quote
Frank Herbert
Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self. View quote
Guru Nanak Dev
The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self. View quote
Albert Einstein
We are beginning to see the entire universe as a holographically interlinked network of energy and information, organically whole and self referential at all scales of its existence. We, and all things in the universe, are non-locally connected with each other and with all other things in ways that are unfettered by the hitherto known limitations of space and time. View quote
Ervin László
I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth. View quote
M. Scott Peck
I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall June grasses that grew high as my head. But here the secret working of self consciousness is almost too entangled with the things of the past for me to explain it. View quote
Pierre Loti
But what many psychologists have done, probably because they did well on a test themselves and everyone wants high self esteem, is to create this little box and then do their research inside it. View quote
Robert Sternberg
To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self. (Charles Cooley)
The social self is simply any idea, or system of ideas, drawn from the communicative life, that the mind cherishes as its own. View quote
Charles Cooley
I see the American experience as being defined by the immigrant paradigm of rupture and renewal: rupture with the old world, the old ways, and renewal of the self in a bright but difficult New World. View quote
Ayad Akhtar
Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do. View quote
Vanessa Hudgens
On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and with as much certitude as his own self. View quote
Wilhelm Dilthey
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