Quotes about Self
Stop looking at others as if they are so much more spiritual than you and just start believing God!
— Beth Moore
Our job, as souls on this mortal journey, is to shift the seat of our identity from the lower realm to the upper, from the ego to the Self. Art
— Steven Pressfield
On the field of the Self stand a knight and a dragon. You are the knight. Resistance is the dragon.
— Steven Pressfield
If we think of ourselves as a corporation, it gives us a healthy distance on ourselves. We're less subjective. We don't take blows as personally. We're more cold-blooded; we can price our wares more realistically. Sometimes, as Joe Blow himself, I'm too mild-mannered to go out and sell. But as Joe Blow, Inc., I can pimp the hell out of myself. I'm not me anymore. I'm Me, Inc. I'm a pro.
— Steven Pressfield
The amateur is often unkind or insensitive to others, but she saves her most exquisite cruelty for herself.
— Steven Pressfield
Ambition, I have come to believe, is the most primal and sacred fundament of our being. To feel ambition and to act upon it is to embrace the unique calling of our souls. Not to act upon that ambition is to turn our backs on ourselves and on the reason for our existence. Those
— Steven Pressfield
Here's what I think. I think angels make their home in the Self, while Resistance has its seat in the Ego. The fight is between the two. The Self wishes to create, to evolve. The Ego likes things just the way they are.
— Steven Pressfield
But this is different for me. These are my demons. This is me. This is the shit I do, no matter how hard I try to stop myself.
— Steven Pressfield
Try as we may, we can't change ourselves in any significant way.
— Stormie Omartian
Terms don't define our lives; our lives define our terms.
— Joshua Harris
We all have our inner demons.
— Glenn Beck
You quickly find, when you are a hand-reader as I am, that nothing interests people so much as themselves.
— Margaret Atwood