Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Topics
Authors
Professions
Quote of The Day
Picture Quotes
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
Self Quotes - Page 170
Menu
Grid View
List View
Quote of the Day
Picture Quotes
Top 100 Inspirational Quotes
Top 100 Love Quotes
Top 100 Happiness Quotes
Popular Authors
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Kanye West
Benjamin Franklin
Kobe Bryant
Henry Ford
Niccolo Machiavelli
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dr. Seuss
Charles Spurgeon
Abraham Lincoln
Popular Topics
Technology
Easter
Thankful
Patience
Courage
Orchids
Gardening
Good Night
Zinc
Daughter
Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That people can be lifted into their better selves is the secret of transforming leadership.
James Macgregor Burns
/
Historian
Leadership
Conscience
Everyday
Interpreting
Leader
People
Secret
Self
Transforming
Wilson
Boldly
Leaders
Lift
Selves
The Secret Of
Woodrow
Copy Quote
In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
Jorge Luis Borges
/
Writer
Abuse
Sacrifice
Self
Copy Quote
Steadfastness, that is holding on; patience, that is holding back; expectancy, that is holding the face up; obedience, that is holding one's self in readiness to go or do; listening, that is holding quiet and still so as to hear.
S. D Gordon
/
Author
Faces
Listening
Self
Copy Quote
I knew that, without killing the creative mood, I had to keep the balance between my emotional outburst and the merciless discipline of a super-personal control, thus submitting myself ti the self-imposed law of dance composition
Mary Wigman
/
Emotional
Law
Self
Copy Quote
To pray is to change. This is a great grace. How good of God to provide a path whereby our lives can be taken over by love and joy and peace and patience and kindness and goodness and faithfulness and gentleness and self-control.
Richard J. Foster
/
Author
Kindness
Self
Taken
Copy Quote
There were times, earlier in my career, where I didn't have the wherewithal to self-edit, and I probably said things and pushed the limits to places where people might be put off. But that's truly part of developing as an artist.
Dane Cook
/
Comedian
Artist
Careers
Self
Copy Quote
Unfortunately, the media, which are not at all reluctant to act in their own self-interest, have succeeded in equating reform in the public mind with further restrictions on just about everyone else's freedom of political speech.
James L. Buckley
/
Former United States Senator
Media
Political
Reluctant
Self
Self Interest
Unfortunately
Further
Political Speech
Public Mind
Restrictions
Succeeded
Copy Quote
Not complete inaction, which is an error, a confusion, a self-delusion, an impossibility, but action full and free done without subjection to sense and passion, desireless and unattached works, are the first secret of perfection.
Sri Aurobindo
/
Philosopher
Errors
Passion
Self
Copy Quote
A highly worthwhile read with prescriptive examples for authentic sustainability and social justice initiatives at companies - not all about the brand, the celebrity or corporate self-interest (about the book 'Compassion, Inc.').
Rebecca Aguilar
/
Book
Compassion
Self
Copy Quote
I'm not only my spirit buy my body, and who can decide how much I, my individual self, am conditioned by the accident of my body? Would Byron have been Byron but for his club foot, or Dostoyevsky Dostoyevsky without his epilepsy?
W. Somerset Maugham
/
Playwright
Epilepsy
Feet
Self
Copy Quote
The female psyche is inherently self-sufficient, because female sexuality is inherently self-sufficient. I think women are maybe more comfortable, or women are able to find physical beauty in each other that doesn't terrify them.
Laura Marling
/
Musician
Female
Self
Thinking
Copy Quote
We, especially those of us in depoliticized and pacified societies, need to cast a colder eye at our self-perceptions, now and in the past, as sentinels and embodiments of Enlightenment virtues of reason, dissent, and skepticism.
Pankaj Mishra
/
Essayist
Eye
Past
Self
Copy Quote
We are suffering a national defeat comparable to any lost military campaign, and what is more, it is self- inflicted? It is about time that we pulled our fingers out? The rest of the world most certainly does not owe us a living.
Prince Philip
/
Royal Knight Of The Garter
Military
Self
Suffering
Copy Quote
People are judged continuously everywhere on the most intimate level by the prices on their head. Most of them accept the judgment. It's very hard to have self-respect, or to maintain a state of creativity under these conditions.
Michael Ventura
/
Novelist
Creativity
People
Self
Copy Quote
A large part of my filmmaking self has to do with my love of being in the cinema audience, and my relationships to what I want to see on the screen, what I have seen on the screen and what I don't want to see on the screen again.
Tilda Swinton
/
Actress
Cinema
Self
Want
Copy Quote
A frequent change of role, and of the lighter sort - especially such as one does not like forcing one's self to use the very utmost of his ability in the performance of - is the training requisite for a mastery of the actor's art.
Edwin Booth
/
Actor
Art
Self
Training
Copy Quote
It was psychobabbler Abraham Maslow who wrote of the phenomena of self-actualization. What Maslow failed to grasp is that reaching true self-actualization can only be ultimately achieved when you have your own brand of ammunition.
Ted Nugent
/
Musician
Abraham
Ammunition
Reaching
Self
Self Actualization
Achieved
Phenomena
Failed
Grasp
Ultimately
Copy Quote
A man's inner nature is revealed by what he praises-a man is self-judged by what he says of others. Thus a man is judged by his standards, by what he considers the best. And you can't find a more crucial test. It reveals the soul.
Hugh Black
/
Author
Men
Self
Soul
Copy Quote
Here was a torture that Greek inventors of the Feast and the Stone had omitted from their Hades: the Blanket of Self-Deception. A lovely warm blanket as far as it covered the soul in torment, but it never quite covered everything.
Jonathan Franzen
/
Novelist
Greek
Self
Soul
Copy Quote
Being an art buyer these days is comprehensively and indisputably vulgar. It is the sport of the Eurotrashy, Hedge-fundy, Hamptonites; of trendy oligarchs and oiligarchs; and of art dealers with masturbatory levels of self-regard.
Charles Saatchi
/
Art Collector
Art
Sports
Self
Copy Quote
I can hit Shahid Afridi six sixes in an over but i know when he is going to hit 6 sixes in my over then the response of the crowd is something different. He is among top 5 dangerous players in current Cricket. I place my self at 6
Chris Gayle
/
Cricketer
Different
Player
Self
Copy Quote
When you sit quietly and let go of every false self-definition , of everything you think you know about who you are, and then be what's left, what remains is the untarnished presence of who you've always been and still really are.
Erich Schiffmann
/
Author
Letting Go
Self
Thinking
Copy Quote
Parenting @ a higher level of consciousness:1st love self so deeply that when ur child misbehaves U do not have 2 react @LoveNever_Fails When you give a little of yourself to a child, you give a little of yourself to their future!
Kevin Heath
/
Australian Rules Footballer
Parenting
Children
Giving
Self
Copy Quote
We all woke up this morning and we had with it the amazing return of our conscious mind. We recovered minds with a complete sense of self and a complete sense of our own existence, yet we hardly ever pause to consider this wonder.
Antonio Damasio
/
Professor
Morning
Self
Sleep
Copy Quote
Don't look now, but that's my ex over there." Surely I'm not the only one who takes "don't look now" as "there's no better time than now." I looked. "Bad, Ali!" Another slap to my arm. "Bad, bad, bad Ali! Have you no self control?
Gena Showalter
/
Author
Arms
Looks
Self
Copy Quote
The Earth should not be cut up into hundreds of different sections, each inhabited by a self-defined segment of humanity that considers its own welfare and its own "national security" to be paramount above all other consideration.
Isaac Asimov
/
Author
Cutting
Humanity
Self
Copy Quote
So if I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame because praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.
John Berryman
/
Poet
Self
Talking
Vanity
Copy Quote
The narrative that each person tells herself and others is a big part of how we construct our self-identities. It's one of the most important ways that we make sense of our past and present and understand our hopes for the future.
Peg O'connor
/
Identity
Past
Self
Copy Quote
By introducing you to yourself it enables you to discover for yourself the true meaning of life and thus enrich every moment of it. Such self-discovery can lead to greater understanding of fellow-beings and therefore to true love.
Venkatesananda Saraswati
/
Discovery
Self
Understanding
Copy Quote
The idea of self-government is foreign to Americans. ... Self-government is a form of self-control, self-limitation. It goes against our whole grain. We're supposed to go after what we want, not question whether we really need it.
Judith Perelman Rossner
/
Novelist
Government
Ideas
Self
Copy Quote
The president has to project to the American people a sense of demanding idealism. Idealism which is not based in self-indulgence, but on self-denial and sacrifice, and on this such an America is going to be credible to the world.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
/
Former National Security Advisor
America
Sacrifice
Self
Copy Quote
I just thought to my self, all of a sudden, that we had something in common. A natural chemistry, if you will. And I had a feeling that something big was going to happen. To both of us. That we were, in fact, meant to be together.
Sarah Dessen
/
Writer
Feelings
Self
Together
Copy Quote
People come to a teacher to learn self-discovery. A teacher who just wants to keep you on a string forever, the god-guru concept, a teacher like that is very abusive. Those people are actually usually taking their students energy.
Frederick Lenz
/
Author
Teacher
Discovery
Self
Copy Quote
I have - often say to people that you really don't get to decide your own legacy. I mean, what you do is, you try to be your own authentic self. And then people decide how they're going to interpret that and what it means to them.
Anita Hill
/
Attorney
Mean
People
Self
Copy Quote
America glories in its tradition of the self-made individual. Political candidates compete to be a friend to entrepreneurs, and policymakers, imagining the next Microsoft or Google, design laws to back the innovator in the garage.
Mark Mckinnon
/
Advisor
America
Candidates
Garage
Law
Microsoft
Self
Self Made
Compete
Entrepreneurs
Imagining
Policymakers
Copy Quote
If there is one thing I’ve learned in my years on this planet, it’s that the happiest and most fulfilled people I’ve known are those who devoted themselves to something bigger and more profound than merely their own self interest.
John Glenn
/
Former United States Senator
People
Self
Years
Copy Quote
Man is a flux of states of consciousness, a flow of passing thoughts, each thought of self another self, a myriad thoughts, a myriad selves, a continual becoming but never being, a will-of-the-wisp flitting of ghosts in ghostland.
Jack London
/
Author
Men
Flow
Self
Copy Quote
Who is the NRA anyway? They are usually middle-income people who only think of themselves, who want to have no government, really, except self-rule by themselves. I think that little cracks are starting to emerge in the NRA armor.
Joycelyn Elders
/
Former Surgeon General Of The United States
Government
Self
Thinking
Copy Quote
Citizens who over-rely on their government to do everything not only become dependent on their government, they end up having to do whatever the government demands. In the meantime, their initiative and self-respect are destroyed.
Charles Koch
/
Businessman
Government
Responsibility
Self
Copy Quote
All we have to do is to receive what we are given...We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm in crisis, to ignore self-defeating suggestions, to be pleasant, forgiving, tender, helpful, unworried, brave, energetic.
Vernon Howard
/
Author
Brave
Giving
Self
Copy Quote
If you think about Audrey Hepburn, I think she became more beautiful when she stopped being an actress and started working with humanitarian campaigns. The more engaged you can become the more you can shed your self-consciousness.
Cate Blanchett
/
Actress
Beautiful
Self
Thinking
Copy Quote
Through learning we grow, becoming more than we were before, and in that sense learning is unselfish, because it results in the transformation of what we were before, a setting aside of the old self in favor of a more complex one.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
/
Professor
Learning
Business
Favors
Self
Copy Quote
The feeling of being valuable is a cornerstone of self-discipline because when you consider yourself valuable you will take care of yourself- including things like using your time well. In this way, self-discipline is self-caring.
M. Scott Peck
/
Psychiatrist
Caring
Love You
Self
Copy Quote
I think I would have drank myself to death, literally, if I didn't just stop, once and for all when I did. I am not ever going to preach to anyone about drugs or drinking. But, for me, when they were around, I had no self control.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
/
Actor
Drinking
Self
Thinking
Copy Quote
Unlike other peoples the United States found their origin in a deliberate act of corporate self-assertion, and ever since the Revolution every little American has been taught to associate himself personally with this creative act.
Christopher Dawson
/
Historian
Corporate
Creative
Deliberate
Revolution
Self
Taught
United States
Associate
Creative Act
Unlike
Origin
Personally
Copy Quote
Even though sugar was very expensive, people consumed it till their teeth turned black, and if their teeth didn't turn black naturally, they blackened them artificially to show how wealthy and marvelously self-indulgent they were.
Bill Bryson
/
Author
Black
People
Self
Copy Quote
By breaking down our sense of self-importance, all we lose is a parasite that has long infected our minds. What we gain in return is freedom, openness of mind, spontaneity, simplicity, altruism: all qualities inherent in happiness.
Matthieu Ricard
/
Monk
Buddhism
Long
Self
Copy Quote
I'm sure even in America, where you have, like, free speech people self-censor themself. And it's not - it happens because of different reasons. Because maybe it's politically incorrect, it doesn't have to really to be put in jail.
Bassem Youssef
/
Satirist
America
Jail
Self
Copy Quote
God has disclosed of himself in human words with such magnificent self accommodation to our limitations. Precisely so that we may be his holy people and reverence everything that he says, cherish it, value it, and thus live it out.
D. A. Carson
/
May
People
Self
Copy Quote
[In my pre-success years] there was a constant hunger, measuring myself against other actors, and there was sometimes fear. But, there was always a need for self-improvement, to help with the struggle to make myself a better actor.
John Goodman
/
Actor
Self
Struggle
Years
Copy Quote
‹ Prev
1
2
...
167
168
169
170
171
172
173
...
252
253
Next ›
Stay Connected
facebook
twitter
pinterest
instragram
App & Tools
Get Daily Quotes of QuoteForever App
Make Your Picture Quotes, Download and Share
Popular Topic Tags
Legal
Science
Heartbreak
Movie
Opportunity
Independence
Good Morning
Space
Uncles
Relationship
God
60th Birthday
Good
Unrequited Love
Jealousy
Food
Happy
Parenting
Amazing
Sympathy
Share This Page
