Quotes about Self
A man is the origin of his action.
— Aristotle
Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.
— Paul Tillich
A man's religion is himself. If he is right-minded toward God, he is religious; if the Lord Jesus Christ is his schoolmaster, then he is Christianly religious.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth.
— John Owen
The gospel chargeth us with piety towards God, and justice and charity to men, and temperance and chastity in reference to ourselves.
— John Tillotson
To love our nothingness we must love everything in us that the proud man loves when he loves himself. But we must love it all for exactly the opposite reason.
— Thomas Merton
But I would reinvent myself if I could. As a sexy leading man! We all would like that, but I don't know how to.
— Dustin Hoffman
If any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone. For God hath made all men to enjoy felicity and constancy of good.
— Epictetus
Now man cannot live without some vision of himself. But still less can he live with a vision that is not true to his inner experience and inner feeling.
— DH Lawrence
When flowers are full of heaven-descended dews, they always hang their heads; but men hold theirs the higher the more they receive, getting proud as they get full.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Every goal, every dream and every success begins on the inside of you.
— Terri Savelle Foy