Self Quotes
What is the first business of one who practices philosophy To get rid of self - Conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.Epictetus
He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self - Love seems so often unrequited.Anthony Powell
As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.Leonardo DaVinci
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.Epictetus
Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self - Solicitude is the enemy of well - Being.John Updike
Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self - Made laws.Sir Richard Francis Burton
Self - Esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self - Esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.Bette Midle
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.Saint Teresa of Avila
Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
When marrying, ask yourself this question Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age Everything else in marriage is transitory.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Experience shows that success is due less to ability that to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.Charles Buxton
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.Lucille Ball
The tragic mistake of so many in the environmentalist movement is the belief that the rest of the world can afford to hold itself to our expensive green standards.Jonathan Berry
He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.John Milton
Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.Saint Augustine
Increase your personal power through positive and powerful communication. Recognize and eliminate negative self talk.Caterina Rando
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity.Charles Caleb Colton
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea - Shore, and diverting myself in finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean lay all undiscovered before me.Sir Isaac Newton, Epitaph
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - - That is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.James Thurbe
The world itself is the will to power - And nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - And nothing else!Friedrich Nietzsche, "The Will to Power".
To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.George Santayana
If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself.Horace
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - And you are the easiest person to fool.Richard Feynman, Caltech commencement address, 1974
Preparation is not the enemy of success, but a dear friend. Be good to yourself and the favor will return.Samuel Cunningham
I have just returned from Boston. It is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there.Fred Allen, in a letter to Groucho Marx, 1953
The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.Grayson Kirk
Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man.... such a man is a true gentleman.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell.Edna St. Vincent Millay, Letters, 1952
If you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, then make that change.Michael Jackson, Man In The Mirro
The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.Cicero
Sometimes you have to play for a long time to be able to play like yourself.Miles Davis
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
Better keep yourself clean and bright you are the window through which you must see the world.George Bernard Shaw
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.Nathaniel Hawthorne
Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself.American Indian Prove
I do not know what I may appear to the world but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.Isaac Newton
