Self Quotes - Page 125

Love yourself and you can heal your life.

God would be a very selfish god if he gave all the soul to one race. ... When one sings from the heart and it reaches another heart, that's soul.

All unhappiness is caused by our trying to be limited, to be an ego. The more we are our Self, the happier we are. We will never be completely happy until we are completely being our Self.

The self-righteous never apologize.

Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.

Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment; Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self needs strength.

The American culture ideal of the "self-made-man," of everyone "standing on his own feet" seemed as tragic a picture as the initiative-destroying dependence on a benevolent despot. He felt and perceived clearly that we all need continuous help from each other, and that this type of interdependence is the greatest challenge to maturity of individual and group functioning.

You just gotta be yourself. Like be yourself and if it works out for you, grind hard. Don't get lost in it. And have fun.

Love created this world, & the lack of it can kill it. Selfishness, self-absorption , arrogance & indifference never built anything.

Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Shake off the self-pity, shake off the defeat and get ready for God to do something new. He is going to pay you back for every injustice.

Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.

I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance.

Pause and remember - No one is coming to rescue you from yourself; your inner demons, your lack of confidence, your dissatisfaction with yourself and life. Only self-love and good decisions will rescue you.

Now how do we cultivate an aggressive response? I think the answer is indignation... Your response, if attacked, must not be fear, it must be anger.

Popcorn for breakfast! Why not? It's a grain. It's like grits, but with high self-esteem.

Before you find out who you are, you have to figure out who you aren't.

Since war itself is the most extreme form of terrorism, a war on terrorism is profoundly self-contradictory.

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

One has to kill a few of one’s natural selves to let the rest grow — a very painful slaughter of innocents.

You must begin to define yourself. You must begin to define your Black heritage.

Parents and educators need to establish a culture in which security and clarity of expectations are balanced with the encouragement of playfulness, inquisitiveness and self reliance.

Don't let others define you. Define yourself.

First know yourself, then know others.