Quotes on Self

Dress your best on your execution day. Be extremely courteous to your assistant when you lose money. Try not to blame others for your fate, even if they deserve blame. Never exhibit any self-pity. Do not complain.

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.

If you wou'd be reveng'd of your enemy, govern your self

Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.

There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

Every man is of importance to himself.

Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.

Do not spill thy soul in running hither and yon, grieving over the mistakes and the vices of others. The one person whom it is most necessary to reform is yourself.

The lack of God-centeredness leads to self-centeredness.

All successes begin with Self-Discipline. It starts with you.

Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.

The whole of the American Dream has been based on the chance to get ahead, for one's self or one's children. Would this country have ever reached the point it has if the individual had always been refused the rewards of his labors and dangers?

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.

But what after all, behind appearances, is this seeming mystery? We can see that it is the Consciousness which had lost itself returning again to itself, emerging out of its giant self-forgetfulness, slowly, painfully, as a Life that is would be sentient, half-sentient, dimly sentient, wholly sentient and finally struggles to be more than sentient, to be again divinely selfconscious, free, infinite, immortal.

Self-esteem starts out as a personal blessing, but it becomes nothing less than an evolutionary force.

To know the self as the only reality and all else as temporal and transient is freedom, peace and joy. It is all very simple. Instead of seeing things as imagined, learn to see them as they are. When you can see everything as it is, you will also see yourself as you are. It is like cleansing a mirror. The same mirror that shows you the world as it is, will also show you your own face. The thought 'I am' is the polishing cloth. Use it.

Effectively, it makes the greasepaint permanent, blurring the lines not only between public and private but also between the authentic and contrived self. If all the world was once a stage, it has now become a reality TV show: we mere players are not just aware of the camera; we mug for it.

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

It would be hard to name a more certain sign of poor self-esteem than the need to perceive some other group as inferior.