Quotes about Self
Once you label me you negate me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
He that sinneth, sinneth unto himself. He that is unjust, hurts himself, in that he makes himself worse than he was before. Not he only that committeth, but he also that omitteth something, is oftentimes unjust.
- Marcus Aurelius
So it is that we have more respect for what our neighbours will think of us than we have for ourselves.
- Marcus Aurelius
But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.
- Marcus Aurelius
The ambitious supposeth another man's act, praise and applause, to be his own happiness; the voluptuous his own sense and feeling; but he that is wise, his own action.
- Marcus Aurelius
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
- Cicero
Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart. Maybe it's much the same.
- Margaret Atwood
You refuse to own yourself, you permit others to do it for you
- Margaret Atwood
You can wipe your feet on me, twist my motives around all you like, you can dump millstones on my head and drown me in the river, but you can't get me out of the story. I'm the plot, babe, and don't ever forget it.
- Margaret Atwood
We were revisionists; what we revised was ourselves.
- Margaret Atwood
In case you're wondering, vanity never ends.
- Margaret Atwood