Quotes About Self

To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.

One should make morals judgements for oneself.

And there isn't any way that one can get rid of the guilt of having a nice body by saying that one can serve society with it, because that would end up with oneself as what? There simply doesn't seem to be any moral place for flesh.

Muscles are fleeting. Bodies give out. But integrity, honor? The confidence to be oneself, to follow one's heart? The compassionate drive to help others, even at great risk? That's strength.

Whatever terrible things may have happened to you, only one thing allows them to damage your core self, and that is continued belief in them.

The only time I really enjoyed myself before was when I was training. Besides that, everything else was an absolute nightmare. It was all about self.

For me, like, obviously, I want to see myself onscreen.

I think a lot of people think I'm doing kind of a character onstage, but what you're really getting is just me.

That's part of what made me interested in theater as a kid. It made it acceptable to be a man for an hour onstage.

When you go onstage, the process of getting you from the dressing room to the stage is all about ego.

To be able to be at the level that I perform onstage, I have to embody everything I've made my music about. Which is me.

I have such a dancer's spirit that I tend to leap around the house. Once I leaped onto my bed and landed on the floor. But I danced more for myself than I did for other people.

I lost myself, and a lot of characters I played, I have latched onto some of their identities just because I was so lacking in anything of my own.

I get invited to many more literary festivals than I used to because I'm associated with 'Slumdog Millionaire,' the brand. Many more doors have opened up for me as a result of the global success of the film, although I believe that I'm the same person that existed before it.

I own and operate a ferocious ego.

The self is just our operation center, our consciousness, our moral compass. So, if we want to act more effectively in the world, we have to get to know ourselves better.

He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.

I believe that everyone has a right to have an opinion about things or people, and fortunately, I have been lucky to have heard usually good things about myself. However, I must admit that people can be quite critical about your role also.

I'm not going to do opinion. That's not who I am.

Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best.

A man's opinion is in others; his being is in himself.

My duty to myself is to amuse myself terrifically.

I worshipped you too much. I am punished for it. You worshipped yourself too much. We are both punished.

Para la mayoría de nosotros la verdadera vida es la vida que no llevamos.