Self Quotes

Cowardice is when you hide away from your real self, and wear another self in pretense. Be yourself; that is bravery. If yourself is not better for you to be, change yourself and live in that changed self!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Mastery is not dispensed on the podium of quitters, but purchased on the counter of consistent application of self-willing can do spirit and an outstanding endurance to persevere with persistent endurance till the end!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Stop chasing another busy self to become. Your real self is idle waiting to be lived... Go, take up your real self!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The level of your self-control is measured as the difference between how you act when you have nothing and how you react when you have everything.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Self-control is a divided battle in one body. The self produces desires that you must battle with and kick off. Two wrestlers in one body. Just imagine. It's difficult, though rewarding!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Authority confined in you does not make you a leader. It is the authority created by you that makes you influence people with your purpose.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Ballot papers do not define leaders. Leadership is defined by conviction, vision, passion and inspiration.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Your title is what you are; your visions are who you are. When you know who you are, then you will know where you can be useful most.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The fact that people are in positions does not justify the means that they are leaders. A leader can be blind and to know this, check his sense of vision.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Be the master of thy soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Your dreaming self seeks to tell you something your waking ears will not hear

~ Jacqueline Carey

She tried to think about what lay ahead, but soon gave up. 'Words turn into stone,' Nimit had told her. She settled deep into her seat and closed her eyes. All at once the image came to her of the sky she had seen while swimming on her back. And Erroll Garner's 'I'll Remember April.' Let me sleep, she thought. Just let me sleep. And wait for the dream to come.

~ Haruki Murakami

You can deceive yourself with truth too. That's an even more dangerous dream.

~ Erich Maria Remarque

                And into the close and mirrored catacombs of sleepWe'll fall, and there in the faded light discover the bones,The dust, the bitter remains of someone who might have been                    Had we not taken his place.

~ Mark Strand

The journey was a surreal dream. This world was about knowing the person you’d always wanted to be and setting your foot down to it, remembering the person you’d thought you were as a child and rejoicing in its living, breathing actuality.

~ Christopher Hawke

Does being true to one's self mean offering the literal truth or the truth that should have been, the truth of the image of one's self? It hardly matters by this time. By this time the border between seeing straight on and seeing round the corners of solid objects, between the world as smooth and coherent and the world as dissociated skinless particle, is thoroughly blurred. No longer a case of double vision, but of two separate eyes whose separate visions - what happened and what might have happened - come together in what we call the past, which we see with hindsight. Memory is revision. I have just destroyed another piece of my past, to tell a story.

~ Lynne Sharon Schwartz

When I look at myself in the mirror, I wonder where everything has gone. Even the things I used to remember with so much clarity now seem dimmer. What happens to memory when it vanishes? What happens to events when everyone who remembers them ceases to remember?

~ Dean Francis Alfar

No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a shudder ran through me and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary thing that was happening to me. An exquisite pleasure had invaded my senses, something isolated, detached, with no suggestion of its origin. And at once the vicissitudes of life had become indifferent to me, its disasters innocuous, its brevity illusory – this new sensation having had on me the effect which love has of filling me with a precious essence; or rather this essence was not in me it was me. ... Whence did it come? What did it mean? How could I seize and apprehend it? ... And suddenly the memory revealed itself. The taste was that of the little piece of madeleine which on Sunday mornings at Combray (because on those mornings I did not go out before mass), when I went to say good morning to her in her bedroom, my aunt Léonie used to give me, dipping it first in her own cup of tea or tisane. The sight of the little madeleine had recalled nothing to my mind before I tasted it. And all from my cup of tea.

~ Marcel Proust

But it was enough if, in my own bed, my sleep was deep and allowed my mind to relax entirely; then it would let go of the map of the place where I had fallen asleep and, when I woke in the middle of the night, since I did not know where I was, I did not even understand in the first moment who I was; all I had, in its original simplicity, was the sense of existence as it may quiver in the depths of an animal; I was more bereft than a caveman; but then the memory - not yet of the place where I was, but of several of those where I had lived and where I might have been - would come to me like help from on high to pull me out of the void from which I could not have got out on my own; I passed over centuries of civilization in one second, and the image confusedly glimpsed of oil lamps, then of wing-collar shirts, gradually recomposed my self's original features.

~ Marcel Proust

No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The I is chained to ancestry by many factors… This is not mere allegory, but an eternal memory.

~ Erwin Schrödinger

What is this 'I'? If you analyse it closely you will, I think, find that it is just a little bit more than a collection of single data (experiences and memories), namely the canvas upon which they are collected. And you will, on close introspection, find that what you really mean by 'I' is that ground-stuff upon which they are collected. You may come to a distant country, lose sight of all your friends, may all but forget them; you acquire new friends, you share life with them as intensely as you ever did with your old ones. Less and less important will become the fact that, while living your new life, you still recollect the old one. 'The youth that was I', you may come to speak of him in the third person, indeed the protagonist of the novel you are reading is probably nearer to your heart, certainly more intensely alive and better known to you. Yet there has been no intermediate break, no death. And even if a skilled hypnotist succeeded in blotting out entirely all your earlier reminiscences, you would not find that he had killed you. In no case is there a loss of personal existence to deplore. Nor will there ever be.

~ Erwin Schrödinger

Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.

~ Daniel Kahneman

It was amazing what I could remember about myself when I retraced my own steps.

~ Cecil Castellucci

At this moment God might not necessarily be a necessity, but know that His absence will of necessity eventually result in His necessity.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Jesus was not SELFLESS. He did not live as if ONLY other people counted. He knew his value and worth. He had friends. He asked people to help him. At the same time Jesus was not SELFISH. He did not live as if nobody counted. He gave his life out of love for others. From a place of loving union with his Father, Jesus had a mature, healthy 'true self.

~ Peter Scazzero

Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, when I give I give myself.

~ Walt Whitman

LOVE of others is the appreciation of one's self. MAY your egotism be so gigantic that you comprise mankind in your self-sympathy.

~ Mina Loy

We can see Spirit made visible when people are kind to one another, especially when it's a really busy person, like you, taking care of a needy, annoying, neurotic person, like you.

~ Anne Lamott

Trouble with a long journey like this,' continued the Captain, 'is that you end up just talking to yourself a lot, which gets terribly boring because half the time you know what you’re going to say next.

~ Douglas Adams

When you're traveling you need to take care of yourself to get by, you have to keep an eye on yourself and your place in the world. It means concentrating on yourself, thinking about yourself and looking after yourself. So when you travel all you really encounter is yourself, as if that were the whole point of it. When you're at home you simply are, you don't have to struggle with anything or achieve anything. You don't have to worry about the railways connections, and timetables, you don't need to experience any thrills or disappointments. You can put yourself to one side - and that's when you see the most.

~ Olga Tokarczuk

A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.

~ Axel Munthe

From so much self-revising, I’ve destroyed myself. From so much self-thinking, I’m now my thoughts and not I

~ Fernando Pessoa

I love you, but I’m more in love with myself and that’s the problem.

~ Dominic Riccitello

Once we are lost unto ourselves, everything else is lost to us.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

What you see, say, think, and believe about yourself affects your feelings, decisions, and actions.

~ Maddy Malhotra

A real friend is one who helps us to think our best thoughts, do our noblest deeds, and be our finest selves.

~ Elizabeth George

Always try to be perceptive and observant in living, sensatory for details and diversity. Always try to see beyond the surface, and look in another perspective. Always try not to judge. Always seeks new experience, embrace and took chances. To live life maximally and develop into a better person.

~ Nin

Enriched vocabularies someone had (and used) are produced by a boundless wondrous mind. Sometime with a non mediocre experience also.

~ Nin

Our thoughts are just a story our mind tell us.

~ Romina Avila

Shrinking in a corner,pressed into the wall;do they know I'm present,am I here at all?

~ Lang Leav