Self Quotes

A man can know nothing of mankind without knowing something of himself. Self - Knowledge is the property of that man whose passions have their full play, but who ponders over their results.
Benjamin Disraeli
James thurbe - the wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist...
I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.
Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
Samuel johnson - if a man does not make new acquaintances as he...
On the touchstone of misfortune a man discovers the strength of understanding and of spirit in kinsmen, wife, servants, and himself.
The Hitopadesa
The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.
James Arthur Baldwin
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
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - - And you are the easiest person to fool.
Richard Phillips Feynman
He who ignores discipline despises himself, but whoever heeds correction gains understanding.
Proverbs 1532 Bible
The world of the commodity is a world updside - Down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work.
Raoul Vaneigem
Friends are relatives you make for yourself.
Eustache Descamps
To what purpose should I trouble myself in searching out the secrets of the stars, having death or slavery continually before my eyes?
Anaximenes
Danish prove - he is most cheated who cheats himself....
It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self - Conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to under - Value them.
Henry James
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man - Given. Be grateful. Conceit is self - Given. Be careful.
John Wooden
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
Eliminating what is not wanted or needed is profitable in itself.
Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
Self - Sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
George Bernard Shaw
Self - Respect permeates every aspect of your life.
Joe Clark
He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.
Lord Herbert
There is a luxury in self - Reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.
Sidney Madwed
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Norman Vincent Peale
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
Calvin Coolidge
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
He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying.
Michel de Montaigne
Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
Mencius, Works
The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of Hell and a hell of Heaven.
John Milton, Dr. Faustus
Creation is a better means of self - Expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.
Vida D. Scudde
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert Camus
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Lucille Ball
Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all, and if thee continually talks of thyself as being old, thee may perhaps bring on some of the infirmities of age. At least I would not risk it if I were thee.
Hannah Whitall Smith, 1907
The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.
Vince Lombardi
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
When a proud man hears another praised, he feels himself injured.
English Prove
The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.
George Washington Allston
My business is not to remake myself, But make the absolute best of what God made.
Robert Browning
What you love is a sign from your higher self of what you are to do.
Sanaya Roman
Keep thy religion to thyself.
George Carlin
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, this is no other life but this.
Henry David Thoreau