Self Quotes

Aldous huxley - we are long before we are convinced that...
The spirit is the true self.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Annie lennox - ask yourself: have you been kind today? make...
to be yourself in a world that is doing its best, day and night to make you like everybody else - - Is to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight.
E. e. cummings
No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it... To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.
Thomas Jefferson
Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
Igor Stravinski
The difficult child is the child who is unhappy. He is at war with himself; and in consequence, he is at war with the world.
A. S. Neill, Summerhill
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
Woodrow Wilson
Even pleasure itself is a toil.
Manilius
It is the highest form of self - Respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.
Dr. Dale E. Turne
Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self - Made laws.
Sir Richard Francis Burton
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless. The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.
William Franklin Billy Graham
Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - And thus make yourself indispensable.
Andre Gide
Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.
Samuel Johnson
I check myself every day just to make sure this is the same person.
Tony Kanal
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
This above all to thine own self be true.
William Shakespeare
What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.
E. B. White
Knowing others is intelligence knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.
Lao Tzu
Let him that would move the world, first move himself.
Socrates
I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.
Helena Rubinstein
However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
Henry David Thoreau
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
Cyril Connolly
The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self - Two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.
Pope John Paul II
I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
Lord Tennyson
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
Will Rogers
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.
George Gurdjieff
An educated man... is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.
Alan Simpson
A man without justice is a beast, and a man who would make himself a beast forgets the pain of being a man.
Timothy Leary
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
Aaron Copland
Mortification from a self - Strength, carried on by ways of self - Invention, unto the end of a self - Righteousness, is the soul and substnace of all false religion in the world.
John Owen
It is regrettable that, among the Rights of Man, the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten.
Charles Baudelaire
The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - Bread and circuses!
Juvenal, Satires
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
Anna Quindlen
That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In the act of destruction, man sets himself above life he transcends himself as a creature. Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate.
Erich Fromm
God conceals himself from the mind of man, but reveals himself to his heart.
African Prove
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
Pearl Bailey
Conventionality is not morality. Self - Righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
Charlotte Bronte