Self Quotes

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Charles Baudelaire

It is one of those beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Charles Dudley Warne

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

Mark Twain

I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me.

Anwar el - Sadat

Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.

Jane Wagne

A man who works beyond the surface of things, though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way for others and may make even his errors subservient to the cause of truth.

Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry Into The Sublime and Beautiful

It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self - Centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self - Reliance

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists".

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Kahlil Gibran

You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.

Florida Scott - Maxwell, Oprah Magazine, May 2004

Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

George Orwell

I paint self - Portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

Frida Kahlo

Do whatever comes your way as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people and other things that are interesting. Put a good deal of thought into happiness that you are able to give.

Roosevelt, Eleano

Human nature is not of itself vicious.

Thomas Paine

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.

James Stephens

I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles.

Anais Nin

Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.

Jesse Stuart

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

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.

W. Somerset Maugham

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

Quintilian

When solving a panic you must first ask yourself what you were doing that could possibly frighten an operating system.

Peter van der Linden

Conquering others takes force, conquering yourself is true strength.

Lao - Tzu

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

Confucius, Analects, XV. 24

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Maitri Upanishads

As long as I am an American citizen and American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject.

Elija Lovejoy

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

Horace Mann

There will be a time when loud - Mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails.

Richard Rybolt

Psychoanalysis is that mental illnes for which it regards itself a therapy.

Karl Kraus

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

The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others, and no one thinks about reforming himself.

Peter Alcantara

The wise should surrender speech in mind, mind in the knowing self, the knowing self in the Spirit of the universe, and the Spirit of the universe in the Spirit of peace.

Maitri Upanishads

Do you want to be a power in the world Then be yourself.

Ralph Waldo Trine

Let us forever forget that every station in life is necessarily that each deserves our respect; that not the station itself; but the worthy fulfillment of its duties does honor the man.

Mary Lyon

All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself, and never mind the rest.

Beatrix Potte

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.

Samuel Johnson

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

Samuel Johnson

God, I offer myself to Thee, to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy power, Thy love and Thy way of life. May I do Thy will always. Amen.

Alcoholics Anonymous Praye