Self Quotes

Whoever despises himself still respects himself as one who despises.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil aphorism 78

At sixteen I was stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. At twenty - Five I was wise, self - Confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty - Five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence?

Jules Feiffe

Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self - Gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Helen Kelle

A competent and self - Confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

Robert Anson Heinlein

All of the significant battles are waged within the self.

Sheldon Kopp

For any woman to success in American life she must first do two things Prepare herself for a profession, and marry a man who wants her to succeed as much as she does.

Cathleen Douglas

He who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

John Milton

Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself.

Ralph Waldo Trine

I have never seen a wild thing feel sorry for itself. A little bird will fall dead, frozen from a bough, without ever having felt sorry for itself.

D. H. Lawrence

Fortunately, psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself remains a very effective therapist.

Karen Horney

He who demands mercy and shows none burns the bridges over which he himself must later pass.

Thomas Adams

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

Anais Nin

I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.

William Blake

Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.

Niels Henrik David Boh

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.

Robert Anson Heinlein

Sit quiety, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.

Zen Prove

It is the part of a wise man to keep himself to - Day for to - Morrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.

Miguel de Cervantes

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know these things.

Hal Borland

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

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

I have great faith in fools; self - Confidence, my friends call it.

Edgar Allan Poe

You cannot teach a man anything. you can only help him to find it for himself.

Galileo Galilei

There is nothing remarkable about it, all one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.

J. S. Bach

He who cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself.

George Herbert

To love oneself is the beginning of a life - Long romance.

Oscar Wilde

Knowing others is intelligence knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao Tzu

I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world.

Russell Bake

The whole object of comedy is to be yourself and the closer you get to that, the funnier you will be.

Jerry Seinfeld

The only place you will be accepted is the place you make for yourself.

Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992

Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

To what purpose should I trouble myself in searching out the secrets of the stars, having death or slavery continually before my eyes?

Anaximenes

Happiness is a sunbeam, Which may pass through a thousand bosoms Without losing a particle of its original ray Nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, Like the converged light on a mirror, It reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Jane Porte

It is the action of an uninstructed person to reproach others for his own misfortune; of one entering instruction, to reproach himself; and one perfectly instructed, to reproach neither others nor himself.

Epictetus, Enchiridion

We are survival machines - Robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.

Richard Dawkings:, "The Selfish Gene".

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an 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

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