Quotes About Self

We had as lief not be, as not be ourselves.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be one's own self

All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.

While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you will be nothing.

The self is not something that one finds. It is something one creates.

Power is strength and the ability to see yourself through your own eyes and not through the eyes of another.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires.

I know that I haven't powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who creates.

Man is not born to solve the problems of the universe, but to find out what he has to do ... within the limits of his comprehension.

We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.

All serious daring starts from within.

No man is demolished but by himself.

You are all you will ever have for certain.

In the main it is not by introspection but by reflecting on our living in common with others that we come to know ourselves. What is revealed? It is an original creation. Freely the subject makes himself what he is, never in this life is the making finished, always it is in process, always it is a precarious achievement that can slip and fall and shatter.

Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may, he will only feel satisfaction as he is satisfied in himself.

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.

From self alone expect applause.

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

Spirituality is ... the awareness that survival is the savage fight between you and yourself.

I am the only real truth I know.

To make the choice for independent survival, the great man's wife has to become convinced of her own intrinsic worth.

You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost.

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.