These self conscious quotes will inspire you. Self-conscious, conscious of one’s own acts or states as belonging to or originating in oneself or feeling undue awareness of oneself, one’s appearance, or one’s actions.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging self conscious quotes, self conscious sayings, and self conscious proverbs.
Best Self Conscious Quotes
- “Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.” ~ Ray Bradbury
- “I used to be self conscious about my height, but then I thought, f*** that, I’m Harry Potter.” ~ Daniel Radcliffe
- “The purpose of life is to know yourself, create yourself, experience yourself as Who You Really Are. There is no other reason to do anything.” ~ Neale Donald Walsch
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“Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.” ~ Mignon McLaughlin
- “Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.” ~ Mignon McLaughlin
- “We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” ~ Marianne Williamson
- “The kingdom is not an exclusive, well-trimmed suburb with snobbish rules about who can live there. No, it is for a larger, homelier, less self-conscious caste of people who understand they are sinners because they have experienced the yaw and pitch of moral struggle.” ~ Brennan Manning
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“In moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one’s own body.” ~ George Orwell
- “You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.” ~ Robert Anton Wilson
- “We never really know what might be beside us or ahead, but most days we walk as if we do.” ~ Katherine Catmull
- “If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.” ~ Aldous Huxley
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“You do your best work when you’re not conscious of yourself.” ~ Peter Matthiessen
- “Life, too, is senseless unless you know who you are, what you want, and which way the wind blows.” ~ Ellen Raskin
- “We all self-conscious. I’m just the first to admit it.” ~ Kanye West
- “It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.” ~ Henry James
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“I’m one of the world’s most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.” ~ Marilyn Monroe
- “Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the theory that the experiences undergone by boys at the great public schools, their glories and disappointments, are so intense as to dominate their lives and to arrest their development. From these it results that the greater part of the ruling class remains adolescent, school-minded, self-conscious, cowardly, sentimental, and in the last analysis homosexual.” ~ Cyril Connolly
- “To me, growing into spiritual maturity is becoming less self-conscious and more God-conscious.” ~ Mark Batterson
- “You cannot help another who will not help him or herself. In the end, all souls must walk their path – and the reason they are walking a particular path may not be clear to us… or even to them at the level of ordinary human consciousness. Do what you can to help others, of course. Show love and caring whenever and wherever you can. But do not get caught up in someone else’s “story” to the point where you start writing it.” ~ Neale Donald Walsch
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“I am a human being, not a human doing. Don’t equate your self-worth with how well you do things in life. You aren’t what you do. If you are what you do, then when you don’t . . , you aren’t.” ~ Wayne Dyer
- “Basically, you can live your life in one of two ways. You can let your brain run you the way it has in the past. You can let it flash any picture or sound or feeling, and you can respond automatically on cue, like a Pavlovian dog responding to a bell. Or you can choose to consciously run your brain yourself. You can implant the cues you want. You can take bad experiences and sap them of their strength and power. You can represent them to yourself in a way that no longer overpowers you, a way that “cuts them down” to a size where you know you can effectively handle things.” ~ Tony Robbins
- “You are not ‘in the now;’ you are the now. That is your essential identity-the only thing that never changes. Life is always now. Now is consciousness. And consciousness is who you are. That’s the equation.” ~ Eckhart Tolle , Self conscious quotes change
- “Do not allow yourself to suppress your thoughts. Instead, let the thoughts come before you and become a sort of observer. Start observing your own mind. Do not try to escape; do not be afraid of your thinking.” ~ Rama Swami
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“The best thing about bugs is their lack of self-consciousness, also the ability to fly doesn’t hurt.” ~ Dov Davidoff
- “Character is the spiritual body of the person, and represents the individualization of vital experience, the conversion of unconscious things into self-conscious men.” ~ Edwin Percy Whipple
- “The Ego, however, is not who you really are. The ego is your self-image; it is your social mask; it is the role you are playing. Your social mask thrives on approval. It wants control, and it is sustained by power, because it lives in fear.” ~ Deepak Chopra
- “Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale
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“There’s something a lot more self-conscious feeling when there’s cameras coming in for close-ups. It makes you very aware.” ~ Tig Notaro
- “A self-conscious society will therefore endeavor to limit sect forming by providing for the widest possible diffusion of secular knowledge.” ~ Edward Alsworth Ross
- “It is only when you have become that true Self consciously, when all these illusions have fallen away, that you will be perfectly free and perfectly happy.” ~ Frederick Lenz
- “The dream world, the true freedom of the imagination, does not open to self-conscious manipulation.” ~ Wendy Beckett
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“If you know that someone is going to hear what you’re doing, you’re always going to be self-conscious about it. In a way that’s good; it spurs you on.” ~ Doug Martsch
- “The less self-conscious you are about what you are about, the better in a way, that is to say technically. You have to get it in your blood, not in the head.” ~ Flannery O’Connor
- “What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms.” ~ Ernest Becker
- “The Light in you is the unalterable truth of who you are. You can deny it and obscure it, but you cannot uncreate it.” ~ Marianne Williamson
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“Health, wealth, beauty, and genius are not created; they are only manifested by the arrangement of your mind-that is, by your concept of yourself, and your concept of yourself is all that you accept and consent to as true.” ~ Neville Goddard
- “I never believed in love at first sight, until I met Derek. It’s all-consuming and delicious and wonderful and exciting. At the same time, it makes me nervous and self-conscious and emotional. Love exists. I know it does, because I’m madly, deeply, hopelessly in love.” ~ Simone Elkeles
- “Political correctness is a bit like a granny, a maiden aunt arriving at a party when everyone’s having a good time. And she comes in, they all start sort of buttoning up and becoming self-conscious and behaving properly and then when she leaves, you can have fun again.” ~ John Cleese
- “Political correctness is a bit like a granny, a maiden aunt arriving at a party when everyone’s having a good time. And she comes in, they all start sort of buttoning up and becoming self-conscious and behaving properly and then when she leaves, you can have fun again.” ~ John Cleese
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“With mindfulness – the practice of peace – we can begin by working to transform the wars in ourselves. Conscious breathing helps us do this.” ~ Nhat Hanh
- “We were in front of a live audience and I would be acting with the man who was playing my lover, and we used those words, and the audience would titter and laugh, and make me uncomfortable doing the scenes. … I wanted to sort of stop and yell at them, “What’s so funny? What’s the matter with you people? Grow up!” It made me very self-conscious at times.” ~ Billy Crystal
- “When we are self-conscious, we cannot be wholly aware; we must throw ourselves out first. This throwing ourselves away is the act of creativity.” ~ Madeleine L’Engle
- “The great gifts of models are not that they’re more beautiful than the next person, it’s that they’re able to be photographed and not be self-conscious.” ~ Bono
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“Salvador Dali has been called kitsch, but, although some of this work may be grotesque, its brazenly self-conscious bad taste saves it from being true kitsch, which always strives to please.” ~ Denis Dutton
- “At the gym, men are just as self conscious and check themselves out in the mirror just as much as women do. In regards to cooking, men can do more than BBQ. All you need to do is ask—but be sure to do it after the game! Oh, and, men do like salads, especially if they are topped off with bacon!” ~ Chuck Hughes
- “If you asked me to go back to being 14 or 15, I couldn’t – it was a terrifying time. I was so awkward in my own skin. I used to hide behind my hair because I was so ridiculously self-conscious.” ~ Florence Welch
- “Fundamentalism has stood aloof from the liberal in self-conscious superiority and has on its own part fallen into error, the error of textualism, which is simply orthodoxy without the Holy Ghost. Everywhere among conservatives we find persons who are Bible-taught but not Spirit-taught. They conceive truth to be something which they can grasp with the mind.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “I really love hanging out on the set, and I love the life, and all of that. But I don’t think I could stick with this profession if it weren’t for those 15 minutes a day when I get to act. That’s the part I love. For some strange reason, it’s the time that I’m the least self-conscious in my whole life.” ~ William H. Macy
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“I didn’t want to whisper and giggle about [puberty] anymore. I felt incredibly self-conscious. I felt like I was losing myself, and I was losing who I was. And that really scared me.” ~ Mara Wilson
- “God — if he really exist — is good, alive, self-conscious, and governs all things according to his benevolent and holy providence; but the world shows no indications of such a benevolent and holy Providence. This earth appears to be a hell, or at best a planet condemned — a sort of purgatory: it is filled with violence, tyranny and injustice, and yet God, if he exist, is absolute sovereign, and has willed that things should be as they are! — Therefore there is no God.” ~ William Batchelder Greene
- “I don’t pay much attention to how the plays relate thematically to each other. I think that’s very dangerous to do, because in the theater one is self-conscious enough without planning ahead or wondering about the thematic relation from one play to the next. One hopes that one is developing, and writing interestingly, and that’s where it should end, I think.” ~ Edward Albee
- “If I had been more self-conscious about being a woman, it would have stifled me.” ~ Marissa Mayer
- “Now that I’d experienced being a woman to a man I was in love with, I’d become self-conscious about being a woman to the world in general. Of course, being female is always indelicate and extreme, like operating heavy machinery. Every woman knows the feeling of being a stack of roving flesh. Sometimes all you’ve accomplished by the end of the day is to have maneuvered your body through space without grave incident.” ~ Hilary Thayer Hamann , Feeling self conscious quotes
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“Tennis is an individual sport, and I am quite a self-conscious person.” ~ Andy Murray
- “We talked about how easy it was to make the mistake of anthropomorphizing animals, and projecting our own feelings and perceptions on to them, where they were inappropriate and didn’t fit. We simply had no idea what it was like being an extremely large lizard, and neither for that matter did the lizard, because it was not self-conscious about being an extremely large lizard, it just got on with the business of being one. To react with revulsion to its behavior was to make the mistake of applying criteria that are only appropriate to the business of being human.” ~ Douglas Adams
- “When I moved to London in the 1990s, it had changed a great deal. Racism had become deeply uncool. But there has been a return of racism in the guise of “antiterrorism.” People who look like myself are immediately suspect. I’ve become extremely self-conscious about going into crowded public places.” ~ Pankaj Mishra
- “When writers are self-conscious about themselves as writers they often keep a great distance from their characters, sounding as if they were writing encyclopedia entries instead of stories. Their hesitancy about physical and psychological intimacy can be a barrier to vital fiction. Conversely, a narration that makes readers hear the characters’ heavy breathing and smell their emotional anguish diminishes distance. Readers feel so close to the characters that, for those magical moments, they become those characters.” ~ Jerome Stern
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“I used to be more self-conscious about style because when you’re younger, you want to exist, you want to show everything you do.” ~ Vincent Cassel
- “As we become more mature we will learn to master the interplay between the past and the present and not be so self-conscious of our rejection or acceptance of tradition. We will not make the mistake that both rigid modernists and conservatives make, of confusing the quality of form with the specific forms themselves.” ~ Alvin Lustig
- “Show me a novelist – or, indeed, a reader – who wasn’t a socially awkward, self-conscious adolescent, prone to clumsiness and excessive reading and I’ll… well, I’ll probably bang my shoulder on the door frame as I storm out. Many of the most unforgettable female fictional protagonists are gauche, self-doubting, plain and think too much.” ~ Charlotte Mendelson
- “The early Stones were adolescent rockers. They were self-conscious in an obvious and unpretentious way. And they were committed to a musical style that needed no justification because it came so naturally to them. As they grew musically the mere repetition of old rock and blues tunes became increasingly less satisfying.” ~ Jon Landau
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“I’m actually much more shy and self-conscious than people’s perception of me.” ~ Jonathan Ames
- “Life in the [London] suburb is richer at the lower levels. At these levels the people are not self-conscious at all, they are at liberty to be as eccentric as they please, they do not know that they are eccentric.” ~ Stevie Smith
- “Geniuses are horrid, intolerant, easily offended, sleeplessly self-conscious men, who expect their wives to be angels with no further business in life than to pet and worship their husbands. Even at the best they are not comfortable men to live with; and a perfect husband is one who is perfectly comfortable to live with.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
- “It’s very easy I think when you’re a creative person to wait for the right thing and to start getting self-conscious about how you are going to express what you do and what’s special about you. I would say in general, a lot of times the answer is that you just dive into something and you find your own voice through that process.” ~ Mitchell Hurwitz
