Self Quotes
A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more. Nobody is going to win a 5, 000 meter race after running an easy 2 miles. Not with me. If I lose forcing the pace all the way, well, at least I can live with myself.Steve Prefontaine
You want to raise your child in such a way that you don? t have to control him, so that he will be in full possession of himself at all times. Upon that depends his good behavior, his health, his sanity.L. Ron Hubbard, Book: Child Dianetics
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.Epictetus
Defining consultancy is a bit like defining the upper class every possible candidate draws the line just below himself.John Peet
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.George Bernard Shaw
Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.James Stephens
How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.Publilius Syrus
Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.Albert Einstein
There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases; it is the easiest thing of all to deceive one? s self.Demosthenes, Olynthiac
Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it sparkles in the setting of modest self - Distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive any injury.Author Unknown
No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.Pythagorus
If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me - Nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - But I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.John Keats, Letter to Fanny Brawne, Feb 1820 - Died 1 year late
This above all TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE. And it must follow as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.William Shakespeare
Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide he exposes himself.Jeanne Moreau
Think and feel yourself there! To achieve any aim in life, you need to project the end - Result. Think of the elation, the satisfaction, the joy! Carrying the ecstatic feeling will bring the desired goal into view.Grace Speare
It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain and some of our griefs... have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all.Miguel de Cervantes
Just what is it that America stands for If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self - Governing people.Woodrow Wilson
The next thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.William Shakespeare, "As You Like It", Act 5 scene 1
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.Henry Ward Beeche
Think to yourself that every day is your last the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.Horace
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery; none but ourselves can free our minds.Bob Marley
He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.Benjamin Franklin
Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.Saint Augustine
Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.Earl of Chesterfield
Every job is a self - Portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence.Commitment To Excellence
Popularity comes from allowing yourself to be bored by people while pretending to enjoy it.Karol Newlin
What we won when all of our people united... must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. ... Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.Lyndon B. Johnson
Vigny, more secretAs if in his tower of ivory, retired before noon. N. B. Vigny refers to Comte de Vigny, who locked himself in an ivory tower to work without the influences of man and desire.Charles Augustin Sainte - Beauve
It really doesnt matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.Real Live Preache
Pascal keeps your hand tied. C gives you enough rope to hang yourself.Anon.
Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.Quintilian
But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II Scene 6
Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self - Confidence and your self - Doubt.Kahlil Gibran
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.Henry Van Dyke
To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.Richard Whately
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.E. B. White
Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the insidiousness of self - Praise, and all the ill - Desert of falsehood.Tyron Edwards
