He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.
Buddha

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
Maya Angelou

Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
Stephen Covey

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
Kahlil Gibran

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.
Kahlil Gibran

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
Napoleon Hill

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
Benjamin Franklin

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

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
William Shakespeare

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.
William Shakespeare

This above all; to thine own self be true.
William Shakespeare

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self esteem.
Kurt Cobain

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
Aristotle

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.
Abraham Maslow

Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.
Sun Tzu

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.
Martin Luther