Self Quotes
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.Marcus Aurelius
Self - Conceit may lead to self - Destruction.Aesop, The Frog and the Ox
Do not let people put you down. Believe in yourself and stand for yourself and trust yourself.Jacob Neusne
Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - And thus make yourself indispensable.Andre Gide
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.Marcus Garvey
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.George Gurdjieff
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - - Great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.Jim Rohn
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.David Mamet
To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.George Santayana
Do not try to fight a lion if you are not one yourself.African Prove
Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.Desiderius Erasmus
A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.Samuel Johnson
To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.David Viscott
Self - Denial is not a virtue it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.George Bernard Shaw
When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.Charles De Gaulle
Each painting has its own way of evolving... When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.William Baziotes
Preparation is not the enemy of success, but a dear friend. Be good to yourself and the favor will return.Samuel Cunningham
A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.Jean - Paul Sartre, Upon refusing the Nobel Prize, Oct. 22, 1964
What you keep for yourself, you lose. What you give away, you keep forever.Axel Monthe
If you turn your back on these people, you yourself are an animal. You may be a well - Dressed animal, but you are nevertheless an animal.Edward Irving Koch
Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.George Orwell
An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.Publilius Syrus
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.Samuel Johnson
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.Thomas Jefferson
No one can give you better advice than yourself.Marcus Tullius Cicero
But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.Alfred North Whitehead
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, September 2002
Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.John Sturart Mill, Defence of Hedonism
Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself.Bertrand Russell
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.Norman Vincent Peale
A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction.Leo Tolstoy
No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.Amos Bronson Alcott
President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.Ralph Nade
As a matter of self - Preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.Diogenes
When you start to doubt yourself, the real world will eat you alive.Henry Rollins, From his song "Shine".
The academic mind can eat away the very basis of its own assurance... produce contortions when it tries to bend over backward... allow itself to be dismayed by the picture it has created of relentless historical process.Herbert Butterfield
