Self Quotes - Page 28

Your outer world is a reflection of your inner world.

Sometimes we esteem others more important than ourselves. We always become the martyr. It is wonderful to be self-sacrificing, but watch out for self-disdain! If we don’t apply some of the medicine that we use on others to strengthen ourselves, our patients will be healed and we will be dying.

Know yourself to be the changeless witness of the changeful mind. That is enough.

Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.

The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.

By stretching yourself beyond your perceived level of confidence you accelerate your development of competence.

In a dating and courtship relationship, I would not have you spend five minutes with someone who belittles you, one who is constantly critical of you, one who is cruel at your expense and may even call it humor. Life is tough enough without the person who is supposed to love you leading the assault on your self-esteem, your sense of dignity, your confidence, and your joy. In this person's care, you deserve to feel physically safe and emotionally secure.

The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

Being stubborn has helped, being selfish is not a bad thing.

I wish to blur the firm boundaries which we self-certain people tend to delineate around all we can achieve.

I am increasingly an architect of self. I am free to will and choose. I can, through accepting my individuality... become more of my uniqueness, more of my potentiality.

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

People do complain about the way I act on stage... They think on stage I act too arrogant, too self-obsessed, solecistic, self-contained, synonyms.

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

Never take yourself too seriously.

Loving yourself means being your own best friend, standing by yourself at all times, including times of failure; being there for yourself no matter what.

Sex is the sacred song of the soul; Sex is the sanctuary of Self.

The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.

Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and respect of self, in turn, is the chief element in courage.

Have good trust in yourself, not in the One that you think you should be, but in the One that you are.

No self respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party that ignores her sex.

Guitar is the best form of self-expression I know. Everything else, and I'm just sort of tripping around, trying to figure my way through life.

To me, clothing is a form of self-expression - there are hints about who you are in what you wear.

The self-sufficient does not pray, the self-satisfied will not pray, the self-righteous cannot pray. No man is greater than his prayer life.

Be Young, Be Dope, Be Proud.