Quotes about Self
In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can never hold too much back because no one will ever really capture who the real Eva Marie is.
- Eva Marie
To change what you get, you must change who you are.
- Vernon Howard
'Accepting the Christ' is merely a shift in self-perception.
- Marianne Williamson
Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.
- John Calvin
I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
- Barbara Kingsolver
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.
- Victor Hugo
Of Myself and of Death' (pp. 287—300).
- Karl Barth
Let no one flatter himself; of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.
- St. Augustine
Only the person who risks is truly free. A man's conquest of himself dwarfs the conquest of Mt. Everest.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Man's life on earth has only one end and purpose: to identify himself with his eternal Self and so to come to unitive knowledge of the Divine Ground.
- Aldous Huxley