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Quotes About Self

A man's own dinner is to himself so important that he cannot bring himself to believe that it is a matter utterly indifferent to anyone else.
~ Anthony Trollope
... I felt like a new man; but I was disappointed with the photographic documentation because I still saw always the old self.
~ Arnulf Rainer
Most men are so thoroughly subjective that nothing really interests them but themselves.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
The supreme adventure in a man's life is his journey back to his Creator. To reach the goal he needs well developed and co-ordinated functioning of his body, senses, mind, reason and Self.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
Let not a man's self be to him all in all.
~ Benjamin Whichcote
Being a man is bullshit; maybe trying to be a man had been the problem all along. At a certain point you just have to trust someone. Even if it's only yourself.
~ Bennett Madison
Every man's conscience is vile and depraved / You cannot depend on it to be your guide when it's you who must keep it satisfied.
~ Bob Dylan
You hear stories of intense actors who can't shed their character and who don't know who they are for a week or two after. I'm not that guy, man.
~ Brad Pitt
Every man is a hero of his own story.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Whether you're a man or not comes from your heart, not how much hair you have on your head.
~ Bruce Willis
Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others.
~ C. S. Lewis
To be a great man and a saint to oneself, that's the only important thing.
~ Charles Baudelaire
The most consistent men are not more unlike to others, than they are at times to themselves.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.
~ Charles Lamb
It is not the number of facts he knows, but how much of a fact he is himself, that proves the man.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
Men never sound more stupid than when they're telling you they're a very complex personality.
~ Clive James
If a man's at odds to know his own mind it's because he hasn't got aught but his mind to know it with.
~ Cormac McCarthy
O, Heart, remember thee That Man is none, Save One.
~ Coventry Patmore
Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Tragedy looks to me like man in love with his own defeat. Which is only a sloppy way of being in love with yourself.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Self confidence plays an important part in every aspect of man's life.
~ Dalai Lama
I know what you're going to say! 'They are men, and men should be free.' A free man is dangerous to himself and everyone else. Freedom should be left to those who can put it to good use.
~ Dave Sim
No one can take away the freedom of a man's soul.
~ David Gemmell
God said, "Let us make man in our image." Man said, 'Let us make God in our image.
~ Douglas William Jerrold