Self Quotes

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Lord Acton
Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self - Praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.
Arnold Bennett
He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
M. C. Esche
C. wright mills - the aim of the college, for the individual...
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
Sir Richard F. Burton
Oscar wilde, the picture of dorian gray, 1891 - the only way to get rid of a temptation is to...
No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.
William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
A threat is basically a means for establishing a bargaining position by inducing fear in the subject. When a threat is used, it should always be implied that the subject himself is to blame by using words such as You leave me no other choice but to...
CIA Manual
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
Elisabeth Kubler - Ross
Washington is like a self - Sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.
Dean Acheson (1893 - 1971)
Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.
Plato
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
Dag Hammarskjld
If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self - Interest, you can have practically anything you go after.
Napoleon Hill
The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong - Doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.
Cicero
Believe in something larger than yourself.
Barbara Bush
Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.
Horace, Epistles
When you start to doubt yourself, the real world will eat you alive.
Henry Rollins, From his song "Shine".
The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.... God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.
Pierre Charron
Peter da silva - ahhh. a man with a sharp wit. someone ought to...
As the moon retaineth her nature, though darkness spread itself before her face as a curtain, so the Soul remaineth perfect even in the bosom of the fool.
Akhenaton
For want of self - Restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross - Grained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self - Control.
Smiles
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.
Alexander Hamilton
Know thyself, said the old philosopher, improve thyself, saith the new. Our great object in time is not to waste our passions and gifts on the things external that we must leave behind, but that we cultivate within us all that we can carry into the eternal progress beyond.
Edward Bulwer - Lytton
Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
Mencius, Works
Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.
Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
Aldous Huxley
It is a base thing to look to others for your defense instead of depending upon yourself. That defense alone is effectual, sure, and durable which depends upon yourself and your own valor.
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
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
Responsiblity is a unique concept. It can only reside and inhere in a single individual. You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished. You may delegate it, but it is still with you. You may disclaim it, but you cannot divest yourself of it.
Admiral Hyman Rickove
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
Paul Tillich
Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
Unknown
A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self - Control is the rule.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.
Seneca
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
Believe in yourself Have faith in your abilities Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Norman Vincent Peale
Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.
George Orwell
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.
George Bernard Shaw
When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
Charles De Gaulle