Self Quotes

Thomas a kempis - love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble,...
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim.
Graham Greene, Heart of the Matter (1948)
Gaston leroux, the phantom of the opera - he had a heart that could have held the empire of...
The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your mental attitude is someting you can control outright and you must use self - Discipline until you create a Positive Mental Attitude - - Your mental attitude attracts to you everything that makes you what you are.
Napolean Hill
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
To linger in the observation of things other than the self implies a profound conviction of their worth.
Charles - Damian Boulogne
Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things First, a dissatisfaction with self - A felt void or need second, a decision to change - To fill the void or need and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change - The willful act of making the change Doing Something.
Dr.
The academic mind can eat away the very basis of its own assurance... produce contortions when it tries to bend over backward... allow itself to be dismayed by the picture it has created of relentless historical process.
Herbert Butterfield
No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.
Greville
Do you ever sit down and wonder what is wrong with the world Do you ever ask yourself why it is that Christians seem to have so little influence, why they seem to achieve so little, for all their numbers, in putting the world right To each of those two questions there is ultimately but one answer. It is this we lack the mind of Christ.
J. Arthur Lewis
The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.
John Ciardi
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.
Abraham Maslow
I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
Samuel Johnson
Johnson himself turned out to be so many different characters he could have populated all of War and Peace and still had a few people left over.
Herbert Mitgang
Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.
Jesse Stuart
Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.
George Orwell
Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Do not wrong or hate your neighbor, for it is not he that you wrong: You wrong yourself.
Shawnee Indian Chant
Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.
Confucius, Analects, XV. 24
Education is life itself.
John Dewey
Where talent is a dwarf, self - Esteem is a giant.
J. Petit - Senn
Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place.
Jennifer Aniston
A decision is the action an executive must take when he has information so incomplete that the answer does not suggest itself.
Arthur W. Radford
It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out.
Judith Rossne
It is impossible to better yourself if you do not know what it means to be better.
Unknown
He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.
Numbers 63 Bible Hebrew
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Marcus Aurelius
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
Henry Ward Beeche
What you love is a sign from your higher self of what you are to do.
Sanaya Roman
Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you - - Out of love - - Takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice.
Dag Hammarskjld
If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
Alexandre Dumas, fils
So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
Francois Rabelais, 1532
The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.
James Arthur Baldwin
By constant self - Discipline and self - Control you can develop greatness of characte.
Grenville Kleise
I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.
Sylvia Plath
The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself.
James Thurbe
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
Josh Billings
It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
Betty Friedan
Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul None is more gladdening or fruitful than to know You can regenerate and make yourself what you will.
William James