Self Quotes

A friend is a present you give yourself.

Robert Louis Stevenson

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

Benjamin Jowett

Man will do many things to get himself loved he will do all things to get himself envied.

Mark Twain

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Roosevelt, Eleano

There are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, and the third is useless.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed: for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess.

Rene Descartes, Discourse on Method

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

Baltasar Gracian

There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers - By see only a wisp of smoke.

Vincent Van Gogh

To understand is to forgive, even oneself.

Alexander Chase

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

N. B. Fear itself. See also H. D. Thoreau.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.

Joel Hawes

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.

William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea - Shore, and diverting myself in finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean lay all undiscovered before me.

Sir Isaac Newton, Epitaph

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.

Francis Quarles

Blessed are they who heal you of self - Despisings. Of all services which can be done to man, I know of none more precious.

William Hale White

The sage wears clothes of coarse cloth but carries jewels in his bosom He knows himself but does not display himself He loves himself but does not hold himself in high esteem.

Lao Tzu

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Albert Einstein

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.

Thomas Jefferson

I don? t really do New Year? s resolutions because I don? t think you should have to wait until December to start working on how to change yourself. I think if you? ve got a problem, you need to fix it now.

Clay Aiken

Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavor. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

Albert Einstein

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.

Brian Aldiss

He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.

Karl Kraus

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

Would you hurt a man keenest, strike at his self - Love.

Lewis Lew Wallace

The sad news is, nobody owes you a career. Your career is literally your business. You own it as a sole proprietor. You have one employee: yourself. You need to accept ownership of your career, your skills and the timing of your moves.

Andrew Grove, Co - Founder and Chairman of Intel Corporation, Only the Paranoid Survive

There has already been published by the bucketfuls such brazen lies and utter fictions about me that I would long since have gone to my grave if I had let myself pay attention to that.

Albert Einstein

The self is not something ready - Made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

John Dewey

I have impeached myself by resigning.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Why not be oneself That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound why try to look like a Pekinese.

Edith Sitwell

The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I have no help to send, therefore I must go myself.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

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 greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.

Garth Brooks, Country Music

Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all, and if thee continually talks of thyself as being old, thee may perhaps bring on some of the infirmities of age. At least I would not risk it if I were thee.

Hannah Whitall Smith, 1907

A crisis does not always appear to a policymaker as a series of dramatic events. Usually it imposes itself as an exhausting agenda of petty chores demanding both concentration and endurance.

Henry Kissinger, Years of Upheaval

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