Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.
Billy Graham

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.
Marcus Garvey

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!
Jane Austen

As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self take the shape Of every creature in whom he is present.
Marcus Aurelius

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.
Malcolm X

The self is hateful.
Blaise Pascal

Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.
Lord Byron

Be that self which one truly is.
Soren Kierkegaard

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self.
Charles Spurgeon

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
Alan Watts

The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.
Marianne Williamson

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Your real self - the "I am I" - is master of this land, the ruler of this empire. You rightfully have power and dominion over it, all its inhabitants, and all contained in its realm.
Robert Collier

Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
George Bernard Shaw

The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
Rabindranath Tagore

Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
Francis of Assisi

The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
Marcel Proust