There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
William James

Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.
Ralph Marston

I think your self emerges more clearly over time.
Meryl Streep

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.
Samuel Johnson

It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.
Ella Maillart

Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly.
Ella Maillart

Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self.
Guru Nanak

Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
Bodhidharma

I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.
Arthur Miller

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?
Abdul Kalam

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

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

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
Francis Bacon

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
Francis Bacon

To take refuge with an inferior is to betray one's self.
Peter Nivio Zarlenga

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

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.
Aesop

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.
Mencius