Quotes About Self

The salary of the chief executive of the large corporations is not an award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm gesture by the individual to himself.

You've got to make a stand, show a bit of class, all you've got to do is say no, but you know you're going to hate yourself in the morning.

I could boast that I was a man, but I could not claim with equal certainty that I was a human being.

Sometimes when the sky overwhelms the world with crimson, a man becomes the image of himself.

anoscetia the anxiety of not knowing "the real you.

Freedom is not from the outside. It's of the inside.

Identity is memory; when memory disappears, the self dissolves and love with it.

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.

Although he too was heading to work, Shahid was glad he wasn't dragging himself off to some office job. Shahid's view: anybody who had to wear a suit to work died a little inside, every day.

You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.

Personal Identity depends on Consciousness not on Substance

E]veryone is orthodox to himself…

Every man has a property in his person, This nobody has a right to, but himself.

Por ser cada hombre, según se mostró, naturalmente libre, sin que nada alcance a ponerle en sujeción, bajo ningún poder de la tierra, como no sea su propio consentimiento

for a man, not having the power of his own life, cannot, by compact, or his own consent, enslave himself to any one

From all which it is evident, that though the things of nature are given in common, yet man, by being master of himself, and " proprietor of his own person, and the actions or labour of it, had still in himself the great foundation of property;" and that which made up the greater part of what he applied to the support or comfort of his being, when invention and arts had improved the conveniencies of life, was perfectly his own, and did not belong in common to others.

Personal identity is made of sameness of consciousness.

The whole value of solitude depends upon one's self; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repose or a place of punishment, a heaven or a hell, as we ourselves make it

It is so hard to be a normal person when one is not a normal person.

Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble

So I found myself telling my own stories. It was strange: as I did it I realised how much we get shaped by our stories. It's like the stories of our lives make us the people we are. If someone had no stories, they wouldn't be human, wouldn't exist. And if my stories had been different I wouldn't be the person I am.

It's funny about a face, how big a difference it makes. I mean, one day you look in th mirror and you think, yeah, that's me, that's my face. And then another day...you think, that's not me, that's not my face. So am I my face? I mean is that all I am?

mind. Your feelings might be coming