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Quotes About Self

Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.
~ Pierre Corneille
We've come a long way. Power dressing now is designed to let the woman inside us come through.
~ Donna Karan
We have nothing to lose by trusting the infinite power of the Self, except the bondage of our own ignorance.
~ Mata Amritanandamayi
I recreate myself; that is my only power.
~ Dejan Stojanovic
In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
~ Gloria Steinem
Houses are fundamental metaphors for self, world, permeability, transition, interiority, exteriority, multiplicity, and the power to move from one state of being to another.
~ Jane Hirshfield
What you believe has more power than what you dream or wish or hope for. You become what you believe.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Seek to know the power that is within you.
~ Joseph Campbell
The most intimate question we can ask, and the one that has the most spiritual power, is this: What or who am I?
~ Adyashanti
The power of the Plus Factor is potential but it is not self-activating. It is latent in human beings and will remain latent until it is activated.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Knowledge gives power. In practice it is very simple. To control yourself, know yourself.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Taking responsibility means not blaming yourself. Anything that takes away your power or your pleasure makes you a victim. Don't make yourself a victim of yourself!
~ Susan Jeffers
How do you know what possibilities lie behind that degradation on the surface? You know but little of that which is within you. For behind you is the ocean of infinite power and blessedness.
~ Swami Vivekananda
I say 'Out' to every negative thought that comes to my mind. No person, place, or thing has any power over me, for I am the only thinker in my mind. I create my own reality and everyone in it.
~ Louise Hay
A man's true estate of power and riches is to be in himself; not in his dwelling or position or external relations, but in his own essential character.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Believe in the power of your own voice.
~ Al Gore
Believe in the power of your voice! Be yourself. Everyone is unique.
~ Barbra Streisand
We can only be what we give ourselves the power to be.
~ Obert Skye
I ask my destiny - what power is this That cruelly drives me onward without rest? My destiny says, "Look round!" I turn back and see It is I myself that is ever pushing me from behind.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
When the balance is broken then everything includes itself in power, power into will, will into appetite. So appetite, aided by will and power, becomes a universal wolf, at last eating up itself.
~ William C. Brown
A man's enemies have no power to harm him, if he is true to himself and loyal to God.
~ John Bartholomew Gough
For many years, I used to pray as an act of power, but that was before I had 100% faith in myself.
~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
We need a self because the complexity of the chemical processes that make up our individual humanities exceeds the processing power of our brains.
~ Mohsin Hamid
The Syrian people do not recognize themselves in the elite politics of the Muslim Brotherhood or the left, each of which is looking for an external power rather than the people's own self-activity.
~ Nigel Gibson