Self Quotes
You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose.Jo Coudert, "Advice From A Failure".
When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.Albert Einstein, The World as I See It.
This above all to thine own self be true.William Shakespeare
One must really have suffered oneself to help others.Mother Theresa
I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world.Russell Bake
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.Oscar Wilde
Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.George Bernard Shaw
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist, section 2
Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - The world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.Henry Mille
Your purpose in relationships is simply to be your best self, regardless of the circumstances.Rosalene Glickman, Ph. D., Optimal Thinking: How to Be Your Best Self
The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking - Glass.Boileau
I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.Walt Whitman
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.Albert Einstein
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
If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.Alexandre Dumas, fils
Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self - Inflicted fate.Albert Einstein
Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.Tom Hopkins
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.Thomas Jefferson
You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentrate on being happy with yourself as you are.J. Jacques, Questionable Content webcomic, #352, 05 - 04 - 05
Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great Argument About it and about but evermore Came out by the same Door as in I went.Omar Khayym
The man who fights for his fellow - Man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.Clarence Darrow
Authentic Christianity never destroys what is good. It makes it grow, transfigures it, and enriches itself from it.Claire Huchet Bishop
Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.Igor Stravinski
He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.Niccolo Machiavelli
Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to knowledge, has proved potentially dangerous, because it has not been accompanied by equal gains in self - Understanding and self - Discipline.Lewis Mumford
If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives. Do good anyway.Mother Theresa
He had a heart that could have held the empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar.Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera
Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.John Lancaster Spalding
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
Be not surprised if thou findest thyself in possession of unexpected wealth. Allah will provide an unexpected use for it.James J. Roche
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
In the choice of a horse and a wife, a man must please himself, ignoring the opinion and advice of friends.George John Whyte - Melville
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.George Gurdjieff
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.Thomas Szasz, "The Second Sin".
Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it repose in Thee.Saint Augustine, The Confessions. Book 1. (The Harvard Classics. 1909? 14, p. 1)
