Self Quotes

Self - Development is a higher duty than self - Sacrifice.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Liberace - when the reviews are bad, i tell myself that they...
I check myself every day just to make sure this is the same person.
Tony Kanal
Simone de beauvoi - i tore myself away from the safe comfort of...
I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.
Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self - Seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Bible, 1 Corinthians 13: 4 - 7
But he that is the greatest among you shall be your servant. And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abused and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.
Matthew 2311, 12 Bible
The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self - Love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self - Absorption.
Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
History repeats itself and history never repeats itself are about equally trueWe never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.
George Macaulay Trevelyan
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
Mark Twain
Happy is he who can give himself up.
Naguib Mahfouz
I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - If I can remember any of the damn things.
Dorothy Parke
Ugo betti - thought itself needs words. it runs on them like...
The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
Titus Livius
Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
Albert Einstein
He who has injured thee was stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him if stronger, spare thyself.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.
Stephen Nachmanovitch
The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.
Wystan Hugh Auden
I said to myself that growing up really means slowing down.
Siri Hustvedt, What I Loved, pg. 336
The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.
Robert Ingersoll
Do you know what a pessimist is? A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
George Bernard Shaw, An Unsocial Socialist (1887) ch. 5
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
George Bernard Shaw
Who has confidence in himself will gain the confidene of others.
Leib Lazarow
What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense, we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.
Anna Jameson
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that position, the next thing he should do is reach out his arms.
Kristin Hunter, O Magazine, November 2003
About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.
Michael Caine, www. aint - It - Cool - News. com
You try to give away what you want yourself.
Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.
Mary Hemingway
Self - Pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.
Helen Kelle
For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
Lyste
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
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
The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.
George Washington Allston
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
Edward Bulwer - Lytton
As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
Leonardo DaVinci
Education is life itself.
John Dewey
Even pleasure itself is a toil.
Manilius
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
Marlene Dietrich
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