It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.
Thomas Szasz

The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes and as an object subject to the same laws as other objects.
Jean Piaget

In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.
Jean Piaget

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.
Aesop

Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.
Henri Frederic Amiel

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
Henri Frederic Amiel

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.
Albert Pike

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.
Bell Hooks

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.
Red Auerbach

Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
Toni Morrison

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
Toni Morrison

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

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.
John Updike

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

Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason its self.
John Milton

Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.
Imelda Marcos

It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.
Charles Eames

It's the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.
Keanu Reeves

True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.
Ralph W. Sockman

Love is the outreach of self toward completion.
Ralph W. Sockman