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Quotes About Self

To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes.
~ Unknown
There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all.
~ William Saroyan
Dear God, I am only what you made me, and I appreciate everything that you gave me!
~ Nicki Minaj
The secret of success is to be prepared and grab the opportunity when it comes. Success is simply matter of honor of commitment to self.
~ Anil Sinha
To honor commitment is way to promote self growth with respect.
~ Anil Sinha
Our own ways always circle around back to ourselves. But when God leads our way, then it leads to him. God's ways lead to God. God leads us through happiness or unhappiness—always only to God. By this we recognize God's ways.
~ Unknown
I'd sacrificed my sense of self in the hope that somehow it would pay off,
~ Unknown
It's nice to just embrace the natural beauty within you.
~ Victoria Justice
You cannot change the world until you first change yourself. We often look to external factors to bring about change in the world, but true change must come from within. If we want to create a better world, we must first cultivate the qualities of compassion, empathy, and understanding within ourselves" (Kneubuhl 19).
~ Unknown
I admit to not being an aficionado of children, having been one and having found my cohort and myself generally despicable. Unlike many, I was not intent on reproducing myself, deliberately or accidentally, since one of myself was more than enough for me to handle.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
In the end, my father had it right. He called me nothing at all.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
Memory and self-representation are thus inseparable, for those who represent themselves are also saying this: remember us.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
Why should I worry about deviating from the masses when I am also me and myself? Am I not a mass? Am I not already a collective? Do I not contain multitudes? Am I not a universe unto myself? Am I not always infinitely dialectical as I synthesize the thesis of me and the antithesis of myself?
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
As for the name they called me, it upset me less than my reaction to it.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
I am not made like any that I have seen; I venture to believe that I was not made like any that exist.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
I'd remember to take care of your soul.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
Imagine always having to live with a hyphen dividing you!
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
Before I only wanted to change the world. I still want that, but it was ironic how I never wanted to change myself. Yet that's where revolutions start!
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
Beauty and the Beast" embraces one last important moral truth: a person's decisions in life will define what kind of person she becomes. In this sense also our destinies are not fated: we decide our own destinies.
~ Vigen Guroian
Orwell says somewhere that no one ever writes the real story of their life. The real story of a life is the story of its humiliations.
~ Vijay Seshadri
R?ng nh?ng ước mÆ¡ ch? có quy?n n?ng ??i vá»›i cái ??u c?a riêng ta. Nhưng ti?n có quy?n n?ng ??i vá»›i cái ??u c?a ng??i khác.
~ Vikas Swarup
Because luck comes from within
~ Vikas Swarup
I triumph and rejoice that my action should have obtained your approval; nor am I disturbed when I hear it said that those whom I have sent off alive and free will again bear arms against me; for there is nothing which I so much covet as that I should be like myself, and they like themselves.
~ Vikram Seth
Perhaps it is true that for all the evidence of the mirror, one pictures oneself in some deep niche of the mind as forever 18.
~ Vikram Seth