Best Self Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“I have a strong sense of self, but that's not a negative thing.”

“One of my problems is to find the self.”

“But let's face it, I still have to look at my self and look at the things I've done down the stretch.”

“I think kind of what you see in the videos is true to me, if not maybe a slightly heightened version of my real self.”

“I just want to lose weight and get back to being my usual self. There's too much flesh.”

“If I told my 16-year-old self that, at 34, I'd have no kids and not be in a movie in America, I wouldn't think I was still successful.”

“I like my smart-aleck self.”

“If your sense of self is destabilised, to imagine being another becomes pretty easy.”

“It's nice to have a record, but it's even better to have a win. But it's team before self every time.”

“The self is just not a worthy enough vehicle to worship.”

“I think the body is the ultimate thing. The soul and mind are part of the body. I don't think there is anything outside of that. Your physical self is who you are. Some people feel that that is reductionist, but I don't think it is. It's just true.”

“To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.”

“Working, I can be my truest self. I don't know how healthy that is.”

“I use fake tan myself with a self tanning spray.”

“I was terrified to be my true self because I felt that it wasn't enough. But I allowed myself to break down those walls.”

“I look back at my younger self and I'm like, 'I was so mean to myself. Why was I so mean?”

“I never had any question that my parents loved me. I had a real sense of self confidence.”

“There is no separation between mind and body... Self and other co-arise and fall away all the time.”

“Sentimentality is a false sense of self.”

“The enslaving of the other is also the enslaving of the self.”

“I didn't want to have to deal with having any moniker or separation between the self that I see and know myself as.”

“I still want to be in touch with my younger self, which is everything that I am.”

“I'm still trying to find out who Paula Cole is. I always am - and I always will be - my real, inside self, which has no name.”

“In college, that was when I felt that acting is the one I really wanted because I got to be my true self; this is what I want to do for the rest of my life.”

“Everyone has a private self and a public self.”

“I've got a transcendental way of thinking about things. I've got a galactic self.”

“Bring your whole self to work because, that way, you can bring full ideas and the wholeness of your unique abilities.”

“Men with style are great because they have a sense of self.”

“Fear comes from personal self-acceptance and not the self.”

“Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.”

“You have to have a strong sense of self in this business - otherwise they're going to spit you out.”

“I love being around a person that makes me not want to be more like them, but makes me want to be more like my true self.”

“I would tell my younger self not to change for anyone. There's only one you, which makes you unique.”

“To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature.”

“Be that self which one truly is.”

“Life’s too short, well apparently”

“I am my mother’s caresses, and the serene kindness with which my father calmly guided me; I am my adolescent travels; I am what my reading has deposited in layers in my mind; I am my loves, my moments of despair, my friendships, what I’ve written, what I’ve heard; the faces engraved on my memory. I am, above all, the one who a minute ago made a cup of tea for himself. The one who a moment ago typed the word “memory” into his computer. The one who just composed the sentence that I am now completing. If all this disappeared, would I still exist? I am this long, ongoing novel. My life consists of it.”

“Memory is a patient sculptor. It chisels away the rough edges and refines the scenes you carry. A childhood street that once felt endless becomes shorter in recollection, but more idyllic. ... The mind softens the harshness and highlights the tenderness. It leaves you with impressions more than exact details: the smell of jasmine in the evening, the sound of rain on an old roof, the feeling of safety in a friend’s kitchen.”

“Time continually shapes who we are—our memories, our present self, and our future hopes.”

“What parts of ourselves had we offered up freely, and which had slipped away unnoticed, like change from a pocket?”

“A selfish life isn’t God’s purpose for you”

“My past is everything I failed to be.”

“I'd rather strive for the kind of interview where instead of me asking to introduce myself to society, society asks me to introduce myself to society.”

“Marriage is the union of two 'I's to form a 'V'. Both 'I's have to tilt equally to make a good 'V'. 'I's standing tall can never make a 'V'.”

“Be patient. Your skin took a while to deteriorate. Give it some time to reflect a calmer inner state. As one of my friends states on his Facebook profile: "The true Losers in Life, are not those who Try and Fail, but those who Fail to Try.”

“When you work on something that only has the capacity to make you 5 dollars, it does not matter how much harder you work – the most you will make is 5 dollars.”

“Whenever I am in a difficult situation where there seems to be no way out, I think about all the times I have been in such situations and say to myself, "I did it before, so I can do it again.”

“Not a believer in the mosque am I,”

“The self is constituted within a variety of arenas and in relation to multiple traditions. Self-hood, on this understanding, is both provisional and open-ended, and critically depends on the configuration of relationships between one’s own groups and those cultures and values that are deemed ‘other’. The regulation of alterity becomes a defining attribute of self-hood, as my sense of who I am is crucially mediated by an understanding of that which I am not (paraphrasing William Connolly).”

“She isn't herself with him, not exactly. She is an idea that formed between the moment of meeting him at that club and arriving at his door that first time. A slick-with-sweat, high-shine version of herself who needs less of everything. Less conversation, less attention, less time.”

“The most frightening thing about love is the appearance of “we.” For it means only one thing: the “I” has already been forgotten.”

“On principle, she believed that anyone who really wanted to know her should be willing to do some work.”

“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”

“Ask anyone and they'll most likely say their family is crazy, and if they don't say their family is crazy, their friends are crazy. That's because everyone is crazy after taking the mask off. People are most themselves when not really trying to fit in, when either alone or around those already closest to them, and that is crazy.”

“It’s quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.”

“V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love.”

“My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism.”

“However self-sufficient we may fancy ourselves, we exist only in relation -- to our friend, family, and life partners; to those we teach and mentor; to our co-workers, neighbors, strangers; and even to forces we cannot fully conceive of, let alone define. In many ways, we are our relationships.”

“I suppose it’s not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do — to feel, discuss feelings. So that’s what I’m giving the finger to. Social norms and stuff…what good are social norms, really? I think all they do is project a limited and harmful image of people. It thus impedes a broader social acceptance of what someone, or a group of people, might actually be like.”

“Please, touch me, I pray.”

“Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.”

“One who find self, attains peace.”

“People love talking about themselves. Yet everyone is hiding something. I started unhiding, and it opened up new worlds.”

“Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.”

“Patient endurance and self-discipline mean we submit to the present moment as it is, not as we would like it to be.”

“Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens”

“The victory over our inner self is a daily struggle. Be strong and do not give up.”

“You will create yourself with continuous self-education.”

“Hope comes not from the people around you, but from yourself.”

“Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling”

“When our emotional health is in a bad state, so is our level of self-esteem. We have to slow down and deal with what is troubling us, so that we can enjoy the simple joy of being happy and at peace with ourselves.”

“According to the Buddha, the failure to recognize the illusion of the self is the source of all ignorance and unhappiness. It is only by renouncing the self, that is, by dropping his ego defences and committing metaphorical suicide, that a person can open up to different modes of being and relating and thereby transform himself into a pure essence of humanity. In so doing, he becomes free to recast himself as a much more joyful and productive person, and attains the only species of transcendence and immortality that is open to man.”

“Every time you victimized someone,” I said, “you were victimizing yourself. Every act of kindness you’ve done, you’ve done to yourself. Every happy and sad moment ever experienced by any human was, or will be, experienced by you.”

“You are an ocean in a drop of dew,”

“Be patient. Your skin took a while to deteriorate. Give it some time to reflect a calmer inner state. As one of my friends states on his Facebook profile: "The true Losers in Life, are not those who Try and Fail, but those who Fail to Try.”

“You are not limited to this body, to this mind, or to this reality—you are a limitless ocean of Consciousness, imbued with infinite potential. You are existence itself.”

“Depression weighs you down like a rock in a river. You don't stand a chance. You can fight and pray and hope you have the strength to swim, but sometimes, you have to let yourself sink. Because you'll never know true happiness until someone or something pulls you back out of that river--and you'll never believe it until you realize it was you, yourself who saved you.”

“Write it on your heart you are the most beautiful soul of the Universe. Realize it, honor it and celebrate the life.”

“Some people think they can find satisfaction in good food, fine clothes, lively music, and sexual pleasure. However, when they have all these things, they are not satisfied. They realize happiness is not simply having their material needs met. Thus, society has set up a system of rewards that go beyond material goods. These include titles, social recognition, status, and political power, all wrapped up in a package called self-fulfillment. Attracted by these prizes and goaded on by social pressure, people spend their short lives tiring body and mind to chase after these goals. Perhaps this gives them the feeling that they have achieved something in their lives, but in reality they have sacrificed a lot in life. They can no longer see, hear, act, feel, or think from their hearts. Everything they do is dictated by whether it can get them social gains. In the end, they've spent their lives following other people's demands and never lived a life of their own. How different is this from the life of a slave or a prisoner?”

“Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling”

“You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.”

“Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens”

“You had once asked me if I was afraid of death.”

“One hand was behind his back, and he held it out, presenting a bouquet of white and smoky purple lilies.”

“Because my past does not make the sum of me. I'm free to move on and let my life lessons put the wind behind the rest of my life.”

“If death is not, who is my enemy? Me”

“Ma mxejniex għalxejn. Kull mixja tagħlima.”

“Today is a new day and it brings with it a new set of opportunities for me to act on.”

“The minds of others I know well;”

“There is more and more I tell no one,”

“How many people came and stayed a certain time,”

“If you're anything like me,”

“And then I feel the sun itself”

“We never know how high we are”

“I want to unfold.”

“I was the world in which I walked, and what I saw”

“I lock my door upon myself,”

“I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.”

“Most of us have nicknames—annoying, endearing, embarrassing.”

“المرآة تعكس بدقة متناهية دون أن تخطئ ابداَ . لأنها وبكل بساطة لا تفكر”