Success comes from curiosity, concentration, perseverance and self criticism.
- Albert Einstein
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.
- Marcus Garvey
With the right attitude, self imposed limitations vanish
- Alexander the Great
Love is not about property, diamonds and gifts. It is about sharing your very self with the world around you.
- Pablo Neruda
Some people have the disease of criticising all the time. They forget the good about others and only mention their faults. They are like flies that avoid the good and pure places and land on the bad and wounds. This is because of the evil within the self and the spoiled nature.
- Ibn Taymiyyah
The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self. Adults work to finish a task, but the child works in order to grow, and is working to create the adult, the person that is to be. Such experience is not just play... it is work he must do in order to grow up.
- Maria Montessori
Be your own leader, be your own self, step out of my shadows and be your own person.
- Snoop Dogg
Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.
- Ramana Maharshi
Believe in yourself, learn, and never stop wanting to build a better world.
- Mary McLeod Bethune
You know, what's interesting is, being your own self is kind of a blur.
- David Chase
Determine that today you will overcome your self of the day before, tomorrow you will win over those of lesser skill, and later you will win over those of greater skill.
- Miyamoto Musashi
Overcoming difficulties leads to courage, self-respect, and knowing yourself.
- Alfred Adler
When I tune into my beautiful self, I get happiness. Everything in the universe belongs to me.
- Dick Gregory
Follow the three R's: - Respect for self. - Respect for others. - Responsibility for all your actions.
- Dalai Lama
Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.
Knowing that I am different from the body, I need not neglect the body. It is a vehicle that I use to transact with the world. It is the temple which houses the Pure Self within.
- Adi Shankara
It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith.
- Jonathan Edwards
If there is one thing I’ve learned in my years on this planet, it’s that the happiest and most fulfilled people I’ve known are those who devoted themselves to something bigger and more profound than merely their own self interest.
- John Glenn
Follow your own path, no matter what people say.
- Karl Marx
Bodybuilding is an art, your body is the canvas, weights are your brush and nutrition is your paint. We all have the ability to turn a self portrait into a masterpiece.
- Kai Greene
The true gospel is a call to self-denial. It is not a call to self-fulfillment.
- John F. MacArthur
No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.
- Aristotle
It took cancer to realize that being self-centered is not the way to live. The answer is to try and help others.
- Terry Fox
Love of self comes first. The one who loves everybody is the one who does not love anyone.
- Elijah Muhammad
Do not look at anybody in terms of friend or foe, brother or cousin; do not fritter away your mental energies in thoughts of friendship or enmity. Seeking the Self everywhere, be amiable and equal-minded towards all, treating all alike.
All man are the same except for their belief in their own selves, regardless of what others may think of them
Choose your self-presentations carefully, for what starts out as a mask may become your face.
- Erving Goffman
There is sorrow in finitude. The Self is beyond time, space and objects. It is infinite and hence of the nature of absolute happiness.
Any child who is self-sufficient, who can tie his shoes, dress or undress himself, reflects in his joy and sense of achievement the image of human dignity which is derived from a sense of independence.
Remember that you will never reach a higher standard than you yourself set. Then set your mark high, and step by step, even though it be by painful effort, by self-denial and sacrifice, ascend the whole length of the ladder of progress.
- Ellen G. White
Neither the military might nor the economic and technological development makes a nation great. It is made great by it's citizens with Self Respect and Integrity ingrained in their lives.
- Pandurang Shastri Athavale
Listen to your own Self. If you listen to that Self within, then you find the Truth.
- Kabir
Anyone who tells you to deny yourself is from Satan.
- Paula White
True wealth is having your health, and knowledge of self.
- Immortal Technique
A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people
- Al-Ghazali
If you don't have self-respect, if you don't have dignity, if you don't have some true knowledge of self and who you are, and where you're coming from, then you're absolutely lost.
Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven't been before.
- Pat Summitt
The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.
- Myles Munroe
When there is oppression, the only self-respecting thing is to rise and say this shall cease today, because my right is justice. If you are stronger, you have to help the weaker boy or girl both in play and in the work.
- Sarojini Naidu
Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone.
- Carlos Castaneda
From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art.
- Michel Foucault
Ceaseless work, analysis, reflection, writing much, endless self-correction, that is my secret.
- Johann Sebastian Bach
The newspaper that obstructs the law on a trivial pretext, for money's sake, is a dangerous enemy to the public weal. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse.
- Mark Twain
Be all you can be in whatever you choose to do. The sky is the limit, so go for it. And do not create any self-imposed limitations.
- Nick Saban
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.
- Indra Devi
All you got in life is your honor, man, your own self-image, your own self-respect. If you lose that, or if you give it away or if you sell it, then you ain't got it no more.
- Lemmy Kilmister
What is enquiry into the Truth? It is the firm conviction that the Self is real, and all, other than That, is unreal.
Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect
- Frantz Fanon
No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.
- Paulo Freire
To be free from bondage the wise person must practise discrimination between One-Self and the ego-self. By that alone you will become full of joy, recognising Self as Pure Being, Consciousness and Bliss.
