Self Quotes
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.Cyril Connolly
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.Foster C. McClellan
The next thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Honesty rare as a man without self - Pity, kinders as large and plain as a prairie wind.Stephen Vincent Benet
The soul who meditates on the Self is content to serve the Self and rests satisfied within the Self there remains nothing more for him to accomplish.Bhagavad Gita
No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.Saint John Chrysostom, Letter to Olympia
To thine own self be true -; And it must follow as the night the day; Thou canst not be false to any man.William Shakespeare
It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.Samuel Johnson
This coffee plunges into the stomach... the mind is aroused, and ideas pour forth like the battalions of the Grand Army on the field of battle.... Memories charge at full gallop... the light cavalry of comparisons deploys itself magnificently; the artillery of logic hurry in with their train of ammunition; flashes of wit pop up like sharp - Shooters.Honore de Balzac
I have lost the half of myself? a soul for which mine was made.Voltaire
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.Ronald Reagan
Of course life is bizarre, the more bizarre it gets, the more interesting it is. The only way to approach it is to make yourself some popcorn and enjoy the show.David Gerrold
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.Buddha
The true fanatic is a theocrat, someone who sees himself as acting on behalf of some super personal force the Race, the Party, History, the proletariat, the Poor, and so on. These absolve him from evil, hence he may safely do anything in their service.Lord Billingsley
Self - Respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.Rabbi Abraham Heschel
Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.Nancy Kerrigan
In jealousy there is more of self - Love, than of love to another.Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself.American Indian Prove
The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.John W. Gardne
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress but I repeat myself.Mark Twain
America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant.Garry Trudeau
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
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.Michel de Montaigne
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
First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ, 1420
He who is sorrowful can force himself to smile, but he who is glad cannot weep.Selma Lagerloef
Experience is an asset of which no worker can be cheated, no matter how selfish or greedy his immediate employer may be.Napolean Hill
People feel comfortable around someone who is comfortable with himself.Clay Aiken, Teen People
Self - Development is a higher duty than self - Sacrifice.Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell.John Milton, Paradise Lost
The idea of an incarnation of God is absurd: why should the human race think itself so superior to bees, ants, and elephants as to be put in this unique relation to its maker? . . Christians are like a council of frogs in a marsh or a synod of worms on a dung - Hill croaking and squeaking for our sakes was the world created.Julian the Apostate
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.Ralph Waldo Emerson
He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.Thomas Paine
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.Mark Twain
What is life? It is a flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.Crowfoot
To establish true self - Esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.Denis Watley
