Self Quotes
Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.Sir John Gielgud
Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - They bear no fruit.Francis Marion
Watch for good times to retreat into yourself. Frequently meditate on how good God is to you.Thomas a Kempis, quoted in the LDS Church News 8/20/2005
Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.G. C. Lichtenberg
Ask yourself Have you been kind today Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.Annie Lennox
What is life It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.Crowfoot
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
If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.Marvin Gaye
The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.Oscar Wilde
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness to an opponent, tolerance to a friend, your heart to your child, a good example to a father, deference to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you to yourself, respect to all men, charity.Francis Maitland Balfou
A competent and self - Confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.Robert Anson Heinlein
Of all the communities available to us there is not one I would want to devote myself to, except for the society of the true searchers, which has very few living members at any time.Albert Einstein
Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.Plato
If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.Saint Augustine
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.E. B. White
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.Jose Ortega y Gasset
The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.Sonya Friedman
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.Richard Bach
First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that position, the next thing he should do is reach out his arms.Kristin Hunter, O Magazine, November 2003
There is nothing like returing to a place that remains uncganged to find how you yourself have altered.Nelson Mandela
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.Plutarch
Self - Respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.H. L. Mencken
Experience does not ever err. It is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your experiments.Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.Lady Nancy Asto
Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.H. L. Mencken
Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.Bernard M. Baruch
A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.Nathaniel Hawthorne
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
Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.Desiderius Erasmus
Nature herself makes the wise man rich.Cicero
A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.Jean - Paul Sartre, Upon refusing the Nobel Prize, Oct. 22, 1964
No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of ther beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems.Anne Rice, "Blood and Gold".
I like less the story that a frog if put in cold water will not bestir itself if that water is heated up slowly and gradually and will in the end let itself be boiled alive, too comfortable with continuity to realize that continuous change at some point may become intolerable and demand a change in behavior.Charles Handy - The Age of Unreason
If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself.Horace
If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self - Interest, you can have practically anything you go after.Napoleon Hill
There are at least two kinds of cowards. One kind always lives with himself, afraid to face the world. The other kind lives with the world, afraid to face himself.Roscoe Snowden
We are more wicked together than separately. If you are forced to be in a crowd, then most of all you should withdraw into yourself.Lucius Annaeus Seneca