Explore Quotes on Self

A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes-within the limits of endowment and environment-he has made out of himself.

By "moral discipline," I mean self-discipline based on moral standards. Moral discipline is the consistent exercise of agency to choose the right because it is right, even when it is hard. It rejects the self-absorbed life in favor of developing character worthy of respect and true greatness through Christlike service.

In real life, you just work for the ordinary self, but in the front of audience you become the superself. That's a completely different thing.

Death is the final stage of growth in this life. There is no total death. Only the body dies. The self or the spirit, or whatever you may wish to label it, is eternal. You may interpret this in any way that makes you comfortable.

All matter/space has some degree of "self" in it, and this self, or anyway some aspect of the personal, is something which infuses all matter/space and everything we know as matter but now think to be mechanical.

Remember that Divinity is the true self of Man. It cannot be sold for gold; neither can it be heaped up as are the riches of the world today. The rich man has cast off his Divinity, and has clung to his gold. And the young today have forsaken their Divinity and pursue self-indulgence and pleasure.

You must remember the value that you add to others and not just what others have added to you. That's how we build self-worth, which, in my opinion, is just as important as net worth.

At last _x000D__x000D_He is healed of his self-doubt._x000D__x000D_Now what is happening ?_x000D__x000D_He is awakening_x000D__x000D_To his souls ecstasy-sun.

Each human being can at once be a fighter and forgiver. When self-doubt tortures him, he most play the role of a fighter. And when his own ignorance humiliates him, he must play the role of a forgiver.

Self-conscious, uncertain, I'm showered by the dust. But the spirit enters into me and I submit to trust.

There is more security in self-denial, mortification, and other like virtues, than in an abundance of tears.

Lack of forgiveness of others breeds lack of self-forgiveness.

Our ideas of self are created by identification. The less we cling to ideas of self, the freer and happier we will be.

To become self-educated you should condemn yourself for all those things that you would criticize others.

The great majority of the things we now make ourselves panicked about are self-created 'dangers' that exist almost entirely in our own imaginations.

The attitude of unconditional self-acceptance is probably the most important variable in their long-term recovery.

Many players will not improve because they cannot bear self-knowledge.

My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit.

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self reliant enough to be free.

All great work artistic, poetic, intellectual or spiritual is produced at those moments when creators forget themselves altogether and are free from self-consciousness.

One thing that blocks flow is self-consciousness.