Self Quotes

Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.

~ Vanessa Hudgens

I'm just trying to work out a way to be a singer and to create cool content. I'm willing to do that as an entertainer. But I'm not willing to give up my actual self.

~ Sia

It's all about communication and a dialogue between individuals - get rid of the labels, get rid of the shame, get rid of the stigmas and just be your most authentic self.

~ Matt Bomer

When a young non-white male is stopped and searched at the whim of a police officer, his idea of personal space, privacy and self esteem are shattered, to say nothing of his Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment protections. The damage goes deep quickly and stays. Stop & frisk, as well as a tactic, is also an incitement.

~ Henry Rollins

Karma is only in space time and causality. Your real self resides non-locally.

~ Deepak Chopra

Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.

~ Maxwell Maltz

For Christmas I do gift bags for my friends and the cast, and I put 'treat yo self' key chains in there. And people send me pictures of 'treat yo self' all the time.

~ Retta

Superhero movies are so famous because of the metaphor that they trigger in one's self about who you could be if things were different.

~ Patty Jenkins

Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.

~ Al Goldstein

What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.

~ C. S. Lewis

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

~ Reinhold Niebuhr

It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.

~ Muhammad Iqbal

Science, literature, and common sense tell us that the self is a fickle thing, subject to revision in real time, and that the chasm that exists between any two people exists inside each and every one of us.

~ Jesse Kellerman

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

~ Helen Keller

The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.

~ Marianne Williamson

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

~ Chiang Kai-Shek

When you're strong physically, it improves your strength in every other facet of your life. You're more confident, your self-esteem is higher, and your self image is better.

~ Jillian Michaels

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

~ Madame De Stael

My mother's death put me in touch with my most savage self. As I've grown up and come to terms with her death and accepted it, the pieces of her that I keep don't exist materially.

~ Cheryl Strayed

The calm mind allows one to connect with the inner self, the Soul, the very source of our being. That's where the music lives. That's where my music comes from.

~ Clarence Clemons

Girls' inner critics are starting to reveal themselves at a younger and younger age. And body image issues are an aspect of their lives which is causing them low self esteem and day-to-day suffering.

~ Elizabeth Berkley

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

~ Joseph Addison

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

~ Iris Murdoch

In a storm of struggles, I have tried to control the elements, clasp the fist tight so as to protect self and happiness. But stress can be an addiction, and worry can be our lunge for control, and we forget the answer to this moment is always yes because of Christ.

~ Ann Voskamp

One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.

~ Ramana Maharshi

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

~ Hugo Black

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense I call it intelligence.

~ Malcolm X

No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

~ Peace Pilgrim

True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.

~ Corliss Lamont

It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.

~ Alan Perlis

Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.

~ Erykah Badu

Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.

~ Bodhidharma

Choose to focus your time, energy and conversation around people who inspire you, support you and help you to grow you into your happiest, strongest, wisest self.

~ Karen Salmansohn

Sometimes I wish that I could go into a time machine right now and just look at my self and say, 'Calm down. Things are gonna be fine. Things are gonna be all great. Just relax.'

~ Tristan Wilds

I don't believe we have a professional self Monday through Friday and a real self the rest of the time. It is all professional, and it is all personal.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

I have moments where I miss my old self. But I think anyone can get caught up in what we used to have. But at the same time, we can choose to focus on the beauty of now.

~ Steve Gleason

I have always admired women that have a strong sense of self, complemented by femininity. I especially appreciate the presence of these women in traditionally male-dominated industries, such as real estate.

~ Ivanka Trump

I recognise my old self in a lot of the letters I get from single women who are unrealistic about what they want.

~ Mariella Frostrup

I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day.

~ Tom Hooper

I think the most productive thing to do during times of change is to be your best self, not the best version of someone else.

~ Seth Godin