Self Quotes
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.Bokonon
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.Samuel Johnson
He that plants trees loves others besides himself.English Prove
I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.Thomas Jefferson
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.Albert Einstein
You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself.Harvey Firestone
The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college the task is to help him become a self - Educating man.C. Wright Mills
Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences of life.Gottfried Reinhardt
I looked with chameleon eyes upon the changing face of the world, looked with anonymous vision upon my uncompleted self.Anais Nin, House of Incest
Becoming a star may not be your destiny, but being the best you can be is a goal that you can set for yourself.Brian Lindsay
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.Agnes Repplie
Without absolutes revealed from without by God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas about manners, justice and right and wrong, issuing from a multitude of self - Opinionated thinkers.John Owen
Man will do many things to get himself loved he will do all things to get himself envied.Mark Twain
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering you own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - Every day begin the task anew.Saint Francis de Sales
Psychoanalysis is that mental illnes for which it regards itself a therapy.Karl Kraus
You cannot stand anywhere in the universe that is outside of yourself.Deepak Chopra
Love is our response to our highest values. Love is self - Enjoyment. The noblest love is born out of admiration of another? s values.Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.Orison Swett Marden
As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.Joseph Conrad
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
The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.Jacob Bronowski, 1976
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.
There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.John Dean
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.Mark Twain
The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.Dietrich Bonhoeffe
I give myself, sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.Mary Montagu
The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others.Hazlitt
I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - If I can remember any of the damn things.Dorothy Parke
A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.Chinua Achebe
Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.Jean Jacques Rousseau
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
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.Josh Billings
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.George Bernard Shaw
The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.Publilius Syrus
Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.Lyman Beeche
The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.Giovanni Ruffini
What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.Confucius
