Quotes about Self

Even on the stage, I've played a bit of a persona, and the persona I played was a much brasher, more arrogant, less aware, less educated version of me.

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.

The most difficult battles are not the ones fought outside the armor, but the ones within it.

We all make trade-offs to get what we want. But no matter what you stand to gain, when the thing you're asked to trade is yourself, the price is too high." What shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself.

A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is myself.

It doesn't matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.

Be your own palace, or the world is your jail.

I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all.

Everything on earth changes - we have no abiding city here - it is the experience of everybody. That it is God's will that we should part with what is dearest on earth - we ourselves change in many respects, we are not what we once were, we shall not remain what we are now.