Self Quotes

The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world.

Max Born

Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Self - Confidence is something caught and not taught. And, risk - Running and chance - Taking are the only ways to catch it.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.

William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating

There is an atmosphere of well - Sounding oratory that likes to attach itself to dress clothes. Away with it.

Albert Einstein

I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

Walt Whitman, Song of Myself, 1855

What ought a man to be Well, my short answer is himself.

Henrik Ibsen

We never get to love by hate, least of all by self - Hatred.

Basil W. Maturin

When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.

Michel de Montaigne

I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles.

Anais Nin

The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself.

Noam Chomsky, Ruth Anshen, Biography of an Idea (Mt. Kisco, NY: Moyer Bell Limited, 1986), pg. 196

When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.

Nancy Friday

I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me instead of looking within myself to see what was there.

Belle Livingstone

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.

Miguel de Cervantes

Men should not trust in God as if God did all, and yet labor earnestly as is he himself did all.

Allan K. Chalmers

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

Woodrow Wilson

It is against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self - Critical?

Alan Perlis

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

Abraham Lincoln

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.

William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

Formal education will earn you a living, self - Education make you a fortune.

Unknown

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

To be in love Is to touch with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.

Gwendolyn Brooks

Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.

Thomas Jefferson

Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for beingWhy thou wert there, O rival of the roseI never sought to ask, I never knewBut, in my simple ignorance supposeThe selfsame power that brought me there brought you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only difference between a madman and myself is that I am not mad.

Salvidor Dali

No one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Charles Dudley Warne

The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.

Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903

Above all be true to yourself, and if you can not put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.

Hardy D. Jackson

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on.

Winston Churchill, Quoted in: Irving Klotz, Bending perception, a book review, Nature, 1996, Volume 379, p 412

Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

It is impossible to better yourself if you do not know what it means to be better.

Unknown

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

Arnold Toynbee

Self - Respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.

H. L. Mencken

As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.

Adelle Davis

People who imagine themselves to be self - Made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail.

Richard Russo

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

Albert Camus

Everything is connected... no one thing can change by itself.

Paul Hawken