Quotes About Self

It's OK to assert yourself. Obviously, as a woman, I do experience the consequence of asserting yourself - you're not supposed to assert yourself.

Many's very human habit of trusting in himself is generally the last great obstacle blocking his pathway to victory in Christian experience.

We should never let our experience influence what we think about our potential.

The greatest thing an actor can experience is discovery. The greatest thing an artist can walk away with is to learn something about themselves and the world and this was one of those.

You can treat experience as a set of surprises on which to exercise your quirky self.

You can't throw your ego away, but you can use its innate desire to experience that which is beyond itself to give you the impetus to meditate.

When your ideas about yourself change, so does your experience.

everything you experience is what constitutes you as a human being, but the experience passes away and the person's left. The person is the residue.

If you move as a being in every experience of your self, your being replaces your self.

Your self is yours to integrate. To integrate your self you need to be, in the midst of your experience, a little bit like your own being.

Certainly, you want to be liked, but as you gain confidence and experience you're more concerned with expressing yourself and what matters to you.

my experience as a fiction writer tells me that the deeper I look into myself, the more universal is the experience I find there.

Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.

This search for perfection - which is a search for divinity - is nothing more than the failure to accept our existence the way it is.

I've reached the age where bruises are formed from failures within rather than accidents without.

'Fault' means failure to meet a standard. Whose? Mine.

So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.

America is one of the few places where the failure to promote oneself is widely regarded as arrogance.

Never lose faith in yourself; you can do anything in the universe.

If you put your faith in yourself and your abilities, intellect and dreams, then your foundation is only as strong as you are.

Our own evil inclinations are far more dangerous than any external enemies.

True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.

One of the greatest weaknesses in most of us is our lack of faith in ourselves. One of our common failings is to depreciate our tremendous worth.

Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.