Quotes about Self
Freedom is the power to create out of nothing, the power of the spirit to create out of itself.
— Nikolai Berdyaev
Only love for Christ has the power to incapacitate the sturdy love for self that is the bane of every sinner, and only the grace of Christ has the power to produce that love.
— Paul David Tripp
No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.
— Ayn Rand
Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.
— James Allen
You have the power to heal your life, and you need to know that!
— Louise Hay
Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
— William Faulkner
Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
— William Hazlitt
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
— William James
The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioning our characters in the wrong way.
— William James
Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
— William James
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.
— William Jones
Oh, if ever I get to heaven, it will be because God will, and nothing else; for I never did any thing of myself, but get away from God!
— David Brainerd