Quotes About Self

Modern man believes he is fruitful and productive when his ego is aggressively affirmed, when he is visibly active, and when his action produces obvious results.

Vedanta teaches that consciousness is singular, all happenings are played out in one universal consciousness and there is no multiplicity of selves.

Violence is man re-creating himself.

The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little basis for validating his own self.

I have just as much woman in me as I have man. It's just a matter of channeling the energy into which way you use it.

A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.

Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.

Every man is an infinitely repelling orb, and holds his individual being on that condition.

I've never met another man I'd rather be.

Simultaneously I am myself, the child I was, the old man I will be.

No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.

You do not know me,' said Tortoise. 'I am a changed man. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself.

A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.

A man's most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions.

A man's greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself.

Every man is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing.

In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many.

A man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress.

Without God man has no reference point to define himself.

Every man is the author of his own life.

Man is bound to lie about himself

A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even to himself.

No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.

Man is a free agent; but he is not free if he does not believe it.