Self Quotes
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness to an opponent, tolerance to a friend, your heart to your child, a good example to a father, deference to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you to yourself, respect to all men, charity.Francis Maitland Balfou
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.Dr. Seuss
A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself.Unknown
A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense.American Prove
We never get to love by hate, least of all by self - Hatred.Basil W. Maturin
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.Elisabeth Kuebler - Ross
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery; none but ourselves can free our minds.Bob Marley
A man of understanding has lost nothing, if he has himself.Michel de Montaigne
There is always someone worse off than yourself.Aesop
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.Lucille Ball
Your central self is totally untouched By grief, confusion, desperation.Vernon Howard
Self - Respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.Rabbi Abraham Heschel
I thank God for my handicaps, for through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.Hellen Kelle
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.Thomas Jefferson
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.Thomas H. Huxley
Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.Joseph Addison
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.Benjamin Spock
The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.Shirley MacLaine
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.Leo Tolstoy
Sit quiety, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.Zen Prove
You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you - - The rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered.Antoine de Saint - Exupery, The Little Prince
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia
Before a man can wake up and find himself famous he has to wake up and find himself.Author Unknown
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die and do not outlive yourself.George Bernard Shaw
Rigidly organized pre - School classrooms, which value obedience more than development, create the deficits in poor children, imposing a self - Image of marginality and failure.Valerie Polakow
How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master - Something that at time strangely wills and works for itself.Charlotte Bronte
If you want your eggs hatched, sit on them yourself.Haitian Prove
That you may retain your self - Respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.William J. H. Boetcke
The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.Sonya Friedman
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.Sir Francis Bacon
Every job is a self - Portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence.Commitment To Excellence
The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless. The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.William Franklin Billy Graham
Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.Samuel Johnson
More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.Uta Hagan
The real tradegy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort - He never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.Arnold Bennett
The honey from the flowers of the senses, Ever present within, ruler of time, Goes beyond fear. For this Self is Supreme.Maitri Upanishads