My Self Quotes

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
Khalil Gibran

Knowledge, Mother, Self

I was being called to surrender the very citadel of my self. I was completely in the dark. I did not really know what repentance was or what I was required to repent of. It was indeed the turning point of my life.
Bede Griffiths

Life, Self, Dark

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.
Franz Kafka

Knowledge, Room, Inner

I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never a gain elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty.
Davy Crockett

Self, Done, Country

I do not consider my self as having mastered the flute, but I get a real kick out of trying.
James Galway

Real, Self, Trying

Being a parent has taught me a lot of things already, you know, though it's only been a year and half, and has made me address parts of myself that I would otherwise live in comfortable denial of, or you know and - you know, for instance, my self-loathing.
Ani DiFranco

Live, Made, Year

Allowing myself to love God completely has obviously shed light on my self-love because he loves me more than I could ever love myself.
Angie Stone

Love, God, Light

Having long suspected that there was something alive in there, running the place, separate from everything else, absolutely individual and independent, we've celebrated by giving it a real name. My self.
Lewis Thomas

Long, Real, Self

My self-confidence didn't come from my appearance, it came from other things that I did. But certainly not my appearance.
Ron Perlman

I was always a little unsteady in my self-belief. Then there was the Jewish thing. I love being Jewish, I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don't look it.
Lauren Bacall

Love, Saying, Problem

It's always at the back of my mind that acting might come to an end for me when Harry Potter finishes. I don't know if I'm good enough to have a long career. I've got a bit of an inferiority complex about my acting. My self-esteem is quite low in that sense.
Rupert Grint

Good, Mind, End

I'm very comfortable as a singer. In fact, I think it's more - I identified my self-esteem, my self more in those ways when I was growing up. I really - it was kind of my calling card as a kid.
Katey Sagal

Self, Fact, Growing

Distortions control my self-image, like they do for a lot of us. It's irrational.
Ron Perlman

Control, Irrational

My self-imposed mandate is to be the voice for the voiceless.
Dionne Warwick

I was called fat and ugly in the press almost my entire life. I understand that being judged by others comes with the territory, but it broke my heart and ruined my self-esteem.
Kelly Osbourne

Life, Heart, Understand

It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men.
Warren Farrell

I really don't know how to be anyone else, and whenever I try to be anyone else, I fail miserably. Or I disappoint myself. It doesn't build my self-esteem, and it doesn't help me grow me at all.
Queen Latifah

Help, Try, Else

My parents raised me to not ever look at race or color, so it doesn't have a big part in my self-identity.
Robert Griffin III

Parents, Big, Color

'Metals' has partly been about me regaining my self respect and I feel like I'm growing the muscles I want to grow again.
Feist

Respect, Self, Again

'Showgirls' was a critical point in my life. I had my head handed to me. At 21 years old, I had to find my self-esteem again. It was a very hard time.
Elizabeth Berkley

Life, Time, Hard

I couldn't help feeling people thought I was a moron, and my self-imposed insecurity constantly bedeviled me.
Nicholas Brendon

Insecurity, Help, Feeling

When I was 19 years old, I came down with anorexia. I had it for about a year before it became public. And it had a lot to do with my self-esteem.
Tracey Gold

Down, Before, Old

But that's something that I like about scoring film: it makes me reach out of the parameters of my self, it requires me to do things musically that I wouldn't normally do left to my own devices.
Jim Coleman

Self, Makes, Film

I always had a separate life than just my work. I built my own family. I have my own hobbies and interests. I have a ranch with livestock and horses. I didn't always get my self-esteem and identity from acting. I never worked unless I wanted to. I never did anything just to do it, just for the paycheck. I always did things that I liked.
Ricky Schroder

Life, Work, Family

Personally, I believe in self-determination, but in the context of one South Africa - so that my self-determination is based in this region, and with my people.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi

Africa, Based, South

But let's face it, I still have to look at my self and look at the things I've done down the stretch.
Luther Allison

Self, Done, Down

My self-editing process is intense.
George Murray

Process, Intense

But, sir, they have written me down upon the history of the country as worthy of expulsion, and in no unkindness I must tell them that for all future time my self-respect requires that I shall pass them as strangers.
Preston Brooks

Time, History, Future

My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in.
John Turturro

Lies, Interest, Inside

It was something she didn't want me to do because she thought the rejection would ruin my self-esteem. My father was, like, 'If she wants to try it, let her try it.'
Ellen Muth

Father, Thought, Try

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