I’m my own competition, I’m competin’ with myself. — Cardi B
I am in love with no other than myself, and my very separation is my union... I am my beloved and my lover; I am my knight and my maiden. — Ibn Arabi
The only person I really believe in is me. — Debbie Harry
I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better. — Frida Kahlo
For I am I: ergo, the truth of myself; my own sphinx, conflict, chaos, vortex—asymmetric to all rhythms, oblique to all paths. I am the prism between black and white: mine own unison in duality. — Austin Osman Spare
I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself — Simone de Beauvoir
I am my own secretary; I dictate, I compose, I copy all myself. — Venerable Bede
I've finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be? — Goldie Hawn
My own soul is my most faithful friend. My own heart, my truest confidant — Babur
i found god in myself and i loved her i loved her fiercely — Ntozake Shange
Only one I can have a problem with is myself. It's probably why my only competition is myself. — 50 Cent
I am really only myself when I'm somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination. — Zelda Fitzgerald
Short My Self Quotes
I believe in me more than anything in this world. — Wilma Rudolph
I don't know what other people are doing - I just know about me. — Thelonious Monk
Once a week, I like to slip into a deep existential depression where I lose all my sense of oneness and self-worth. — Bo Burnham
Let your heart guide you...it whispers so listen closely. — Walt Disney
It’s all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit. — Eartha Kitt
My Self Image Quotes
Let my girls be Hermiones, rather than Pansy Parkinsons. — J. K. Rowling
I live my life on self-belief and I live it partly on going with the flow. — Melanie Brown
You're either sexy or you're not. I'm very self-conscious about my physiognomy. — Bobby Darin
Maturity is learning to walk away from people and situation that threaten your peace of mind, self respect, values, morals and self worth.
I Hate My Self Quotes
I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting. — Jodi Picoult
There's a rebel lying deep in my soul. Anytime anybody tells me the trend is such and such, I go the opposite direction. I hate the idea of trends. I hate imitation; I have a reverence for individuality. — Clint Eastwood
I hate solitude but I am afraid of intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself and to turn it into a dialogue would be equivalent to self-destruction. The company I need is the company which a pub or a cafe will provide. I have never wanted a communion of souls. — Iris Murdoch
We are what we believe we are.
I had to grow to love my body. I did not have a good self-image at first. Finally it occurred to me, I'm either going to love me or hate me. And I chose to love myself. Then everything kind of sprung from there. Things that I thought weren't attractive became sexy. Confidence makes you sexy. — Queen Latifah
I hated myself and the world because I had failed to face and accept the limitations of my self and of life. In literature this refusal is called romanticism; in psychology, neurosis. — Luke Rhinehart
There will be outrage and disgust and people will turn on me at the last, they will hate me, my reputation will forever be destroyed, my punishment earned, self-inflicted like this gunshot wound, and the world will finally know that I was the greatest feather man of them all. — John Boyne
As a youth, I hated myself for not being good enough. All my inadequacies and failures, not being kind enough, generous or understanding enough, would assail me at night. It became a habit to be guilty and self castigating, not liking myself because I was unworthy... I really tortured myself. — Mira Sorvino
There is no place for fear. Stay informed, but also be smart enough to decipher what is noise and what is real. Always remembering that love can cast out all hate. I have made a commitment to teach my son love, self-respect, the way of the world and boundaries. — Kelly Rowland
Over the years of much self-hate, I came to realize that whether sexuality was in my life or not, it didn't seem to matter. I just surrendered the whole thing to God. — Frederick Lenz
Take my verses too serious ya hate me, cause I'm the one to paint a vivid picture, no HD. — Drake
Me My Self Quotes
If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance. — Marcus Aurelius
As I began to love myself I freed myself of anything that is no good for my health - food, people, things, situations, and everything that drew me down and away from myself. At first I called this attitude a healthy egoism. Today I know it is Love of Oneself. — Charlie Chaplin
You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. — Steve Jobs
Like most girls I'm always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I'm weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful. — Janis Joplin
I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self. — Martin Luther
I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself? — Walt Whitman
The idea that my future self would trade all the money in the world to be poor and 20 years old again, really made me re-analyze how I saw living life in the moment. — Alex Hormozi
Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me. — Quincy Jones
We all have an internal life clock. Each day, we make decisions that cause the clock to tick over much faster or slower, depending on when & how much we eat, sleep & exercise. It's hard to be perfect but it helps to ask: What would my future self want me to do today? — David Sinclair
I can speak at length and use my brain. It's nice to be able to show that side of me. — Logan Paul
Working On My Self Quotes
Awww, I was so shy about watching my own work broadcast on TV. — Akira Toriyama
I'll be honest with you. I'm a little bit of a loner. It's been a big part of my maturing process to learn to allow people to support me. I tend to be very self-reliant and private. And I have this history of wanting to work things out on my own and protect people from what's going on with me. — Kerry Washington
If my ruling disposition is self-interest, I perceive that everything that happens to me is always for or against my self-interest; if, on the other hand, my ruling disposition is obedience to God, I perceive Him to be at work for my perfecting in everything that happens to me. — Oswald Chambers
I'm really very self-confident when it comes to my work. When I take on a project, I believe in it 100%. I really put my soul into it. I'd die for it. That's how I am. — Michael Jackson
I'm tough on myself in terms of the standards I want to live up to, but that's also part of my pleasure: Knowing you are being your fullest self. Being your fullest self is a lot of work. — Natalie Portman
I'm a big fan of working out on my own. I put my headphones on and I'm pretty good at self-motivating. At the end of the day, I enjoy it. Once I'm there and once I get going, I tend to love it, and I feel good. — Chris Evans
My default is self-destruction, and anything on top of that is a bloody lot of work. — Gillian Anderson
The first six years of my career, I got more comments on my weight than on my singing. So I think I became so self-conscious that I started working on it harder. — Kenny Rogers
My advice to my younger self would have been, "Chill. Concentrate on the poems. Everything else will work itself out." — Denise Duhamel
And so then, keep on growing, My son. Keep on becoming. And keep on deciding what you want to become in the next highest version of your Self. Keep on working toward that. Keep on! Keep on! This is God Work we're up to, you and I. So keep on! — Neale Donald Walsch
Change My Self Quotes
I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded. — Virginia Woolf
My whole theory for the improvement of society is based on a belief in the discipline and the education of the individual to self-control and right doing, for the sake of right doing. I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws. — Ida Tarbell
Ask yourself what makes you come alive. — Howard Thurman
I am humanly unable to correct my negative self-image until I encounter a life-changing experience with non-judgmental love bestowed upon me by a Person whom I admire so much that to be unconditionally accepted by Him is to be born again. — Robert H. Schuller
I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflections upon self. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Sociologists have a theory of the looking-glass self: You become what the most important person in your life (wife, father, boss, etc.) thinks you are. How would my life change if I truly believed the Bible's astounding words about God's love for me, if I looked in the mirror and saw what God sees? — Philip Yancey
Self-esteem can be so exhausting. I want to cut my hair, change my clothes, erase the pimple from the near-tip of my nose, and strengthen my upper-arm definition, all in the next hour. — David Levithan
It suits my own attitude toward the world and its people to believe that the Raven is this completely self-centered, uninvolved bringer of change, through inadvertence and accident, and so on... It's a version of the Raven myth for today, not for the time when it was created. — Bill Reid
Thank God I never hooked on anything. I never had a monkey on my back. I just wanted to self-medicate, to numb myself through liquor. It's how I dealt with life, reality, stress, change, sadness, memories. The list goes on. I was really trying to feel nothing. — Johnny Depp
Sancho Panza by name is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle. — Miguel de Cervantes
Losing My Self Quotes
I believe that I'm a hillbilly in my values and in my attitudes, and I don't want to lose that. I think it's possible to maintain a big chunk of that identity so long as you're self-reflective and meaningful about it. — James David Vance
By the miracle of teaching, I can give you some of my ability, without losing any of it myself. — Ashleigh Brilliant
This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all sight of reality and reason. — Siobhan Fahey
I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance. — Jim Harrison
I would warn my brethren and sisters to never flatter persons because of their ability; for they cannot bear it. Self is easily exalted, and in consequence, persons lose their balance. — Ellen G. White
My father taught me that losing your temper is a self-indulgent act. — Hugh Jackman
It's important to recognize your own self-destructive behavior and be honest about it. You're only hurting yourself or losing out on your truth and happiness. I'm not afraid to face my own personal stuff. It's so important to dig it up and figure it out and move on. — Christina Aguilera
Self-consciousness, that's what it is. Always my abiding vice. I keep seeing myself. Me watching myself watching others watch me. How do you lose that? What's the trick? — Stephen Fry
I'll do my best to always put God and neighbor ahead of ego, but I want to find myself, and if finding myself means losing my ego self, I'll go there. — Barbara Brown Taylor
I felt at some point that I had nothing to lose, and [laughs] maybe I was wrong. I think, you know, there's always these little autobiographical secrets behind things. I think I was really attacking my earlier self, and this kind of pretentious figure. — Billy Collins
Love My Self Quotes
Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day. If I succeed, I will give thanks. If I fail, I will seek his grace. And then, when this day is done, I will place my head on my pillow and rest. — Max Lucado
Think highly of yourself because the world takes you at your own estimate. — Kurt Hahn
I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. — Albert Einstein
As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; therefore, I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher. — Giacomo Casanova
When you get in taekwondo, it teaches you the life skills of respect, self control, discipline-that's why I love it. I really attribute those skills to really getting over my dad's death. If I didn't have that, I would have lost it. — Anthony Pettis
A Mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually VACCINATES her daughter against low self-esteem. — Naomi Wolf
I can’t begin to express how remarkable it feels to finally love who I am enough to pursue my authentic self. — Elliot Page
Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting. — William Shakespeare
I'm a little self-conscious about my body. I love to wear hoodies because you can get cozy and eat some food and your belly doesn't show! — Jared Padalecki
Love Myself Quotes
And God said, Love your enemy, & I obeyed Him & loved myself. — Kahlil Gibran
White people think when you love yourself you hate them. No, when I love myself they become irrelevant to me. — John Henrik Clarke
I love God, I love everybody else around me as myself, and I love my enemy. — Kevin Gates
If the praise of others elates me and their blame depresses me; if I cannot rest under misunderstandin g without defending myself; if I love to be loved more than to love, to be served more than to serve, then I know nothing of Calvary love. — Amy Carmichael
I'm not the average girl from your video and I ain't built like a supermodel but I learned to love myself unconditionally because i am a queen — India.Arie
I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite. — Shane Koyczan
When we first met, I didn't want to get involved with anyone. I didn't have the time or energy, and I wasn't sure that I was ready for it. But you were so good to me, and I got swept up in that. And little by little, I found myself falling in love with you. — Nicholas Sparks
I want to open myself. ... I want the light of God, I want the sweet love of Jesus. I danced for the Devil; I saw him, I wrote in his book; I go back to Jesus; I kiss His hand. I saw Sarah Good with the Devil. I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil. I saw Bridget Bishop with the Devil! — Abigail Williams
Love don't love nobody got me feeling like, I shouldn't love myself — Young Jeezy
I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive. — Zora Neale Hurston
Ourself Quotes
We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be –the mythologized epitome of a savage ruthless killer – which is, in reality, no more than a reflected image of ourself. — Farley Mowat
We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself. — Paracelsus
The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other. — Luciano Pavarotti
We are all interconnected in a web of kindness from which it is impossible to separate ourself. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
When we love someone our love becomes demonstrable or real only through our exertion - through the fact that for that someone (or for ourself) we take an extra step or walk an extra mile. Love is not effortless. To the contrary, love is effortful. — M. Scott Peck
Emptiness is in fact form when we forget the self. There's nothing in the universe *other* than ourself. Nothing to compare, name, or identify. When it's the only thing there is, how can we talk about it? — Taizan Maezumi
Our Jewishness is not a creed, it is ourself, our totality. Indeed, it may be fairly said that the surest evidence of your lack of seriousness in religion is the fact that your religions are not national, that you are not compromised and dedicated, en masse, to the faith. — Maurice Samuel
Empathy is a special way of coming to know another and ourself, a kind of attuning and understanding. When empathy is extended, it satisfies our needs and wish for intimacy, it rescues us from our feelings of aloneness. — Carl Rogers
We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves. — Alan Watts
There is a solitude, which each and every one of us has always carried with him, more inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains, more profound than the midnight sea; the solitude of self. Our inner being, which we call ourself, no eye nor touch of man or angel has ever pierced. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
New Self Quotes
You can put a new shirt on your back, slide a fresh chain around your neck, and accumulate all the money and power in the world, but at the end of the day those are just layers. Money and power don't change you, they just further expose your true self. — Jay-Z
Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again. — Og Mandino
Caught in a funk? Use meditation, music, and exercise to reset your mood. Then choose a new path to commit emotional energy for rest of day. — Naval Ravikant
Don't listen to negative influences. Believe in yourself, and show others what you can do. Only "you" can find your potential. — Marla Runyan
Anarchism, to me, means not only the denial of authority, not only a new economy, but a revision of the principles of morality. It means the development of the individual as well as the assertion of the individual. It means self-responsibility, and not leader worship. — Voltairine de Cleyre
The reason to make art is to innovate and self-express, show something new, share what’s inside, and communicate your singular perspective. — Rick Rubin
Each day, we have the opportunity to learn something new, apologize for our mistakes, and become better. — Lewis Howes
Every day is a new opportunity to improve. — Wim Hof
Sports can do so much. They've given me a framework: meeting new people, confidence, self-esteem, discipline, motivation. All these things I learned, whether I knew I was learning them or not, through sports. — Mia Hamm
Unique Self Quotes
The strongest person is not the one who is able to do something, but the one who is able not to do what he has the power to do. This self-denial is the unique way to usher in God's kingdom and to realize the kingdom life. — Witness Lee
Self-actualizing people are those who have come to a high level of maturation, health and self-fulfillment... the values that self-actualizers appreciate include truth, creativity, beauty, goodness, wholeness, aliveness, uniqueness, justice, simplicity, and self-sufficiency. — Abraham Maslow
Don’t be afraid of being unique. It’s like being afraid of your best self. — Donald Trump
Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are — Kurt Cobain
Everybody is unique. Compare not yourself with anybody else lest you spoil God's curriculum. — Baal Shem Tov
I am increasingly an architect of self. I am free to will and choose. I can, through accepting my individuality... become more of my uniqueness, more of my potentiality. — Carl Rogers
Vocational education programs have made a real difference in the lives of countless young people nationwide; they build self-confidence and leadership skills by allowing students to utilize their unique gifts and talents. — Conrad Burns
You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way". — Richard Bach
There's something so powerful about being my own gorgeous, beautiful, individual, unique self. — Alicia Keys
When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. — Steve Jobs
If there is one thing I’ve learned in my years on this planet, it’s that the happiest and most fulfilled people I’ve known are those who devoted themselves to something bigger and more profound than merely their own self interest. — John Glenn
Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land. — Walt Whitman
There was a day when I died; died to self, my opinions, preferences, tastes and will; died to the world, its approval or censure; died to the approval or blame even of my brethren or friends; and since then I have studied only to show myself approved unto God. — George Muller
We had a beautiful dream and that was all. The interest of my son is the only guide I have, and whatever happiness I could achieve by being free of this place I cannot consent to separate my self from him. I could not have any pleasure in the world if I abandoned my children. I do not even have any regrets. — Marie Antoinette
Happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors. — Dalai Lama
I could only achieve success in my life through self-discipline, and I applied it until my wish and my will became one. — Nikola Tesla
A lot of people, black, white, mexican, young or old, fat or skinny have a problem being true to they self. They have a problem looking in the mirror and looking directly into their own souls. Only reason I am who I am today is because I can look directly into my face and find my soul — Tupac Shakur
Either you allow Holy Scriptures to change you, or you will normally try to use it to change--and clobber--other people. It is the height of idolatry to use the supposed Word of God so that my small self can be in control and be right. But I am afraid this has been more the norm than the exception in the use of the Bible. — Richard Rohr
I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life. — Louise Hay
I just think it's good to be confident. If I'm not on my team why should anybody else be? — Robert Downey, Jr.
I see no greatness in my self...I'm a simple-minded, child-like, insipid sort of moronic and kind of akward feeling adolescent. — Neal Cassady
My chief task has been to conquer fear. The public sees only the thrill of the accomplished trick; they have no conception of the tortuous preliminary self-training that was necessary to conquer fear. — Harry Houdini
I wanted only to try to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult? — Hermann Hesse
I feel my belief in sacrifice and struggle getting stronger. I despise the kind of existence that clings to the miserly trifles of comfort and self-interest. I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened. — Fidel Castro
Independence, the freedom of a self-governing nation, is in my estimation the highest political good, for which any disadvantage, if need be, and any sacrifice are a cheap price. — Enoch Powell
I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever is happening to me is my own fault. I have done something wrong, something so huge I can't even see it, something that's drowning me. I am inadequate and stupid, without worth. I might as well be dead. — Margaret Atwood
I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories. — A. E. van Vogt
During my teenage years as an Islamist recruiter, I moved to live in self-contained communities in the London boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets. — Maajid Nawaz
No trainer or coach or expert can make you good or great or unstoppable if you’re not going to do the work, if you’re waiting for someone to make it happen for you. It’s on you. And that’s why I’m telling you all of this, not because I want you to know what I do for my guys, but because I want you to know what you have to do for yourself. — Tim Grover
I don't have to be perfect. All I have to do is show up and enjoy the messy, imperfect and beautiful journey of my life. — Kerry Washington
Guitar is the best form of self-expression I know. Everything else, and I'm just sort of tripping around, trying to figure my way through life. — Slash
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