Self quotes
Self quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt
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Personality, IntegritySelf quotes by Sigmund Freud
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Psychology, Struggle, UnconsciousSelf quotes by Helen Keller
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Perfection
I am not a perfect being... I have more faults than I know what to do with. I have a naughty temper. I am stubborn, impatient of hindrances and of stupidity. I have not in the truest sense a Christian spirit. I am naturally a fighter. I am lazy. I put off till tomorrow what I might better do today. I do not feel that I have been compensated for the two senses I lack. I have worked hard for all the senses I have got, and always I beg for more.
I am younger today than I was at twenty-five. Of course the furrows of suffering have been dug deeper, but so have those of understanding sympathy and inner happiness. Whatever age may do to my earthly shell, I shall never grow cynical or indifferent — and one cannot measure the reserve power locked up in that assurance.
Self quotes by Victor Hugo
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Advice, Experience, Self-determination, Integrity, Soul, Humanism, Planning
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.
He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.
Self quotes by Albert Camus
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Personality, Self-determinationSelf quotes by Simone de Beauvoir
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Personality, Individuality, Sin
Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.
Lewis Carroll
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Humour, Personality, Individuality)Self quotes by James Joyce
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Personality, Introspection, Life, PeopleSelf quotes by Leo Tolstoy
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Wisdom, Change, Psychology, Failure, Self-determination, Death, Personality, Fear
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
We lost because we told ourselves we lost.
Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.
Self quotes by Walt Whitman
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Perfection, Personality, Character, Inferiority, Individuality, Inspiration, Fortune, MistakesSelf quotes by Franz Kafka
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Psychology, Introspection, Books, Self-determinationSelf quotes by Truman Capote
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Humour, Freedom, Introspection, Fear, Anxiety, Life, People
Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.
You call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing," and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself.
Our real fears are the sounds of footsteps walking in the corridors of our minds, and the anxieties, the phantom floatings, they create.
You don't run out on people; you run out on yourself.
Self quotes by John Steinbeck
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Life, Personality, Experience, Humanism, Writing, Philanthropy
A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.
I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.
If I have not the power to put myself in the place of other people, but must be continually burrowing inward, I shall never be the magnanimous creative person I wish to be. Yet I am hypnotized by the workings of the individual, alone, and am continually using myself as a specimen.
Sylvia Plath
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Understanding, Personality)Self quotes by Joseph Conrad
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Wisdom, Conscience, Betrayal, Struggle, Personality, Character
They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience
He struggled with himself, too. I saw it - I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself.
We can never cease to be ourselves.
Self quotes by Ralph Ellison
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Freedom, Introspection, Danger, Loss, Integrity, Experience, Search
When I discover who I am, I'll be free
Perhaps to lose a sense of where you are implies the danger of losing a sense of who you are.
It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself.