Quotes of: My-self Keyword

I never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant.

John Banville

It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.

Josh Billings

Of course, there were other sorts of literature -- theoretical, self-referencial, lachrymosely autobiographical -- but they were just dry wanks.

Julian Barnes

I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older.

Jamie Lee Curtis

Officers are taught to use all the tricks and lies that courts permit within the scope of the Fifth Amendment's shield against self-incrimination.

David K. Shipler

True 'we travel the world over and over to find the authentic-self, we forget that we carry it within. Simply Pause.

Evelyn Leilou Colon

God’s supernatural self-control is available to us when we walk by the Spirit.

Elizabeth George

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

Ernest Hemingway

Shall you live authentically who you are or will you spend your allotted living the life of someone you imagine your self to be?

Earl R. Smith II

An apology given just to appease one's conscience is self-serving and better left unspoken!

Evinda Lepins

I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.

Boris Johnson

You don't want to go around willy-nilly suing news organizations. That's probably self-defeating.

Bill Keller

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

Brian Tracy

The Christlike life has nothing at all to do with satisfying, coddling, or promoting self, but everything to do with being poured out for others.

Claudia Barba

Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.

Calvin Coolidge

To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.

Charles Horton Cooley

When you become a slave to a public persona and don't feel comfortable without it, it becomes a shield, and it shouldn't come at the expense of your self-worth.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw

The Iraqis are not threatened by the Turks or by the Iranians or by the Saudis and they tell me that these are not weapons of mass destruction, they are weapons of self-destruction.

Hans Blix

I'm self-taught and emailed photographers I knew if I had questions I couldn't figure out from the manual or online.

Hanneli Mustaparta

Fame is a by-product which you have to deal with in a sensible way. To believe that it is anything more significant than that is deeply self-deceptive.

Jodhi May

I was always rather outspoken. I worried about what people thought of me but there really wasn't room for a lot of self-doubt.

Joe Mantello