Self Expression Quotes

• If we're really committed to growth, we never stop discovering new dimensions of self and self-expression .

  Oprah Winfrey

  Self, Expression, Growth

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know For Sure”, p.153, Macmillan

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• A person without self-expression is a person without personal freedom.

  Robin S

  Self, Expression, Personal Freedom

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• Love of self and love of life connects us with the prosperity of the Universe. Self-love creates self-expression and allows us to be creative in deeply fulfilling ways.

  Louise Hay

  Love Life, Self, Expression

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Sep 21, 2013

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• Self-expression is the dominant necessity of human nature.

  Dale Carnegie

  Self, Expression, Human Nature

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.49, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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  Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

  Sigmund Freud

  Inspirational, Alive, Way

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Art, Expression

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.164, GENERAL PRESS

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• Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Expression, Self Reliance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.35, Courier Corporation

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• Without self-expression, life lacks spontaneity and joy. Without service to others, it lacks meaning and purpose.

  Laurence Boldt

  Self, Expression, Joy

  Laurence G. Boldt (1999). “Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design”, p.67, Penguin

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• One of the best things to do sometimes is simply to be.

  Eric Butterworth

  Inspirational, Expression, Sometimes

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• Anything can be art. Anything can be self-expression . Now you take the weapon and run with it.

  Gerard Way

  Running, Art, Self

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• Our self-expression is meant to be a manifestation of the silence of our hearts.

  Matthew Fox

  Heart, Self, Expression

  Matthew Fox (1992). “Sheer joy: conversations with Thomas Aquinas on creation spirituality”, Harpercollins

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• Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Change, Expression, Being Sad

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• Self-expression is a hallmark of an artist, of art, to get something off one's chest, to sing one's song. So that element is present in all art. It is the key to even standing up and saying, "Hey, listen to me." Self-expression can be based on looking at the world and making observations about it.

  George Carlin

  Song, Art, Keys

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Go toward self-actualization rather than self-image actualization... Search within... for honest self- expression.

  Bruce Lee

  Self, Expression, Mma

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• Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Communication, Self, Expression

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• Fashion you can buy, but style you possess. The key to style is learning who you are, which takes years. There’s no how-to road map to style. It’s about self-expression and, above all, attitude.

  Iris Apfel

  Fashion, Attitude, Keys

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  Never dull your shine for somebody else.

  Tyra Banks

  Confidence, Being Yourself, Self Esteem

  FaceBook post by Tyra Banks from Aug 30, 2011

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• The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.

  Fay Weldon

  Self, Expression, People

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• It takes time to understand yourself, to go inside yourself and to question yourself and really take yourself to task. That's self-expression.

  John Leguizamo

  Self, Expression, Tasks

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My interest lies in my self-expression -- what's inside of me -- not what I'm in.

  John Turturro

  Lying, Self, Expression

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• There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.

  Martha Graham

  Positive, Uplifting, Dance

  "The Life and Work of Martha Graham". Book by Agnes de Mille, p. 264, 1991.

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• When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

  Ansel Adams

  Inspirational, Photography, Creativity

  Attributed in "AB bookman's weekly: for the specialist book world", Vol. 76, Nr. 19-27; (p. 3326), 1985.

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• The spontaneous power of the child, his demand for self-expression, can not by any possibility be suppressed.

  John Dewey

  Children, Self, Expression

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• God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.

  Meister Eckhart

  God, Expression, Made

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• I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things.' Anarchism meant that to me, and I would live it in spite of the whole world — prisons, persecution, everything. Yes, even in spite of the condemnation of my own closest comrades I would live my beautiful ideal.

  Emma Goldman

  Beautiful, Self, Expression

  Emma Goldman (2011). “Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)”, p.56, Cosimo, Inc.

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