Self Quotes

The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun - Illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?
Edwin Markham
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill anothe.
Alan Stewart Paton
The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.
Robert Ingersoll
Julia t. alvarez - everyone needs a strong sense of self. it is our...
To love oneself is the beginning of a life - Long romance.
Oscar Wilde
Edna st. vincent millay, letters, 1952 - where you used to be, there is a hole in the...
He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.
Numbers 63 Bible Hebrew
Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled to concentrate to accept conflict and tension to be born everyday to feel a sense of self.
Erich Fromm
Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.
Judy Garland, to her daughter, Liza Minelli
When an American says that he loves his country, he... means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self - Respect.
Adlai Ewing Stevenson
God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.
Albert Einstein
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
James Thurber, in Edward R. Murrow television interview
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Most powerful is he who has himself in his power.
Seneca
Live each season as it passes breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.
Henry David Thoreau
All the blessings which you pray to obtain hereafter could be yours today, if you did not deny them to yourself.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations? Book Twelve
In jealousy there is more of self - Love, than of love to another.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Ben franklin - the constitution only gives people the right to...
An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.
Bonnie Friedman, in New York Times
Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
Albert Camus
One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
Blaise Pascal
I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.
William Harvey
Formerly a public man needed a private secretary for a barrier between himself and the public. Nowadays he has a press secretary to keep him properly in the public eye.
Daniel J. Boorstin
Have no friends not equal to yourself.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Do you want to be a power in the world Then be yourself.
Ralph Waldo Trine
A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the faade of his appearance.
Jean Iris Murdoch
There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The self is not something ready - Made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
John Dewey
Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings essential to success.
John McDonald
In summer, the song sings itself.
William Carlos Williams
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
Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it repose in Thee.
Saint Augustine, The Confessions. Book 1. (The Harvard Classics. 1909? 14, p. 1)
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
We hold these truths to be self - Evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments a.
Thomas Jefferson
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
Benjamin Disraeli
Man is immortal therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea it can only find itself in changing forms.
Rabindranath Tagore
And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that of yourself which you yet know not of.
William Shakespeare
Self - Respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.
John Herschel
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering you own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - Every day begin the task anew.
Saint Francis de Sales