English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Quotes About Self

John Dos Passos quote: "self respect. self reliance. self control."
self respect. self reliance. self control. John Dos Passos
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "Self trust is the essence of heroism."
Self trust is the essence of heroism. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "Self is the gorgon."
Self is the gorgon. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Self pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality. John Gardner
Ayn Rand quote: "Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst..."
Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it. Ayn Rand
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "Self improvement is masturbation..."
Self improvement is masturbation... Chuck Palahniuk
Self abandoned, relaxed and effortless, I seemed to have laid me down in the dried-up bed of a great river; I heard a flood loosened in remote mountains, I felt the torrent come; to rise I had no will, to flee I had no strength. Charlotte Bronte
John Barth quote: "Self knowledge is always bad news."
Self knowledge is always bad news. John Barth
Shari Lewis quote: "Self esteem comes from doing something and accomplishing..."
Self esteem comes from doing something and accomplishing something. Shari Lewis
William Law quote: "Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils..."
Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state. William Law
Nathaniel Branden quote: "Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves."
Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves. Nathaniel Branden
Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure. Kingsley Amis
...to be a poet, requires a mythology of the self. The self described is the poet self, to which the daily self (and others) are often ruthlessly sacrificed. The poet self is the real self, the other one is the carrier; and when the poet self dies, the person dies. Susan Sontag
Everyone of us is shadowed by an illusory person: a false self..We are not very good at recognizing illusions, least of all the ones we cherish about ourselves. (34) Contemplation is not and cannot be a function of this external self. There is an irreducible opposition between the deep transcendent self that awakens only in contemplation, and the superficial, external self which we commonly identify with the first person singular.(7) Our reality, our true self, is hidden in what appears to... Thomas Merton
by the time we understand the pattern we are in, the definition we are making for ourselves, it's too late to break out of the box. We can only live in terms of the definition, like the prisoner in the cage in which he cannot lie or stand or sit, hung up in justice to be viewed by the populace. Yet the definition we have made of ourselves is ourselves. To break out of it, we must make a new self. But how can the self make a new self when the selfness which it is, is the only substance from... Robert Penn Warren

Popular Topics

Popular Author