Self Quotes

The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall to - Day be uppermost.

Confucius

Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God is himself mad.

R. D. Laing

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.

Dr. Seuss

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

Truman Capote

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self - Gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Helen Kelle

It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self - Improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.

Vartan Gregorian

Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.

Robert Ingersoll

Toleration is the greatest gift of mind, it requires that same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

Hellen Kelle

If the programmer can simulate a construct faster then the compiler can implement the construct itself, then the compiler writer has blown it badly.

Guy L. Steele Jr., Tartan Laboratories

For myself I am an optimist - It does not seem to be much use being anything else.

Sir Winston Churchill

To expect defeat is nine - Tenths of defeat itself.

Francis Crawford

I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.

Oscar Levant

I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Economy.

Life is not meaningful to us unless serving an end beyond itself, unless it is of value to someone else.

Abraham J. Herschel

Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

Iris Murdoch

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self - Restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Theodore Roosevelt

Courage consists of the power of self - Recovery.

Julie Arabi

Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, And know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, No coincidences, All events are blessings given to us to learn from.

Elizabeth Kubler - Ross

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

Sir Winston Churchill

It is by no means self - Evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.

Thomas Elliot

As an athlete, when you least expect it, you may find yourself standing on the threshold of an accomplishment so monumental that it strikes fear into your soul. You must stand ready, at any moment, to face the unknown. You must be ready to walk boldly thru the wall of uncertainty.

John "The Penguin" Bingham, The courage to start

Your mental attitude is someting you can control outright and you must use self - Discipline until you create a Positive Mental Attitude - - Your mental attitude attracts to you everything that makes you what you are.

Napolean Hill

A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.

Henry Ward Beeche

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself lying to others is relatively an exception.

Hietzsche

There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self.

Demosthenes

Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light.

Baltasar Gracian

Under peaceful conditions the militant man attacks himself.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you and act accordingly.

Thomas Jefferson

To establish oneself in the world, one has to do all one can to appear established.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

Mark Twain

The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.

Gustave Flaubert

If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives. Do good anyway.

Mother Theresa

A decision is the action an executive must take when he has information so incomplete that the answer does not suggest itself.

Arthur W. Radford

What you keep for yourself, you lose. What you give away, you keep forever.

Axel Monthe

Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.

Benjamin Franklin

We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.

Jane Austen

Better keep yourself clean and bright you are the window through which you must see the world.

George Bernard Shaw