Self Quotes
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - - Nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.Richard Milhous Nixon
Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes reactionary.Marshal Tito
Self - Respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.Rabbi Abraham Heschel
I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.Samuel Johnson
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".
Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.Saint Augustine
The tragic mistake of so many in the environmentalist movement is the belief that the rest of the world can afford to hold itself to our expensive green standards.Jonathan Berry
If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you started.Marcus Garvey
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.Will Rogers
In all the work we do, our most valuable asset can be the attitude of self - Examination. It is forgivable to make mistakes, but to stand fast behind a wall of self - Righteousness and make the same mistake twice is not forgivable.Dr. Dale E. Turne
The most disturbing and wasteful emotions in modern life, next to fright, are those which are associated with the idea of blame, directed against the self or against others.Marilyn Ferguson
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.Albert Einstein
But words came halting forth, wanting Inventions stayInvention, Natures child, fled step - Dame Studys blows... Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite, Fool, said my Muse to me look in thy heart and write.Sir Philip Sidney
Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - They bear no fruit.Francis Marion
Remember! Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - Then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.Endicott Peabody
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.Anais Nin
Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.Henry Kissinge
Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.Henry David Thoreau
He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.M. C. Esche
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
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.Aldous Huxley
One must not be mean with the affections what is spent of the fund is renewed in the spending itself.Sigmund Freud
Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a world - wide depression all by myself.Herbert Clark Hoove
No man is demolished but by himself.Richard Bently
Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.G. Stanley Hall
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.Sophia Loren
He who makes a beast of himself relieves himself the pain of being a man.Hunter S. Thompson
A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.Henry Ward Beeche
The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.Robert Ingersoll
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
You give little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.Kahlil Gibran
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
The best leader is the one who has the sense to surround himself with outstanding people and self - Restraint not to meddle with how they do their jobs.Author Unknown
It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.Graham Greene, The Ministry of Fea
Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.John Lancaster Spalding
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.Bertolt Brecht
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.Benjamin Franklin
