Self Quotes
Graham See what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles Or do you believe that people just get lucky Or, look at the question this way Is it possible that there are no coincidences.Signs
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
A friend is a present you give yourself.Robert Louis Stevenson
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.Elie Wiesel
The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and pride in self - Reliance. He is led no longer by Davy Crocketts he is led by cheer leaders, press agents, word mongers, uplifters.Henry Louis Mencken
I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.Richard Milhous Nixon
He who is calm disturbs neither himself nor others.Epicurus
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self - Confidence.Robert Frost
However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society.Henry David Thoreau
Learning makes a man fit company for himself.Thomas Fulle
To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.Simone de Beauvoi
But I have always liked bird dogs better than kennel - Fed dogs myself - - You know, one that will get out and hunt for food rather than sit on his fanny and yell.Charles E. Wilson
That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In the act of destruction, man sets himself above life he transcends himself as a creature. Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate.Erich Fromm
As I see it, every day you do one of two things build health or produce disease in yourself.Adelle Davis
Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.William S. Burroughs
He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires and fears is more than a King.John Milton
An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.Publilius Syrus
The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of an endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.Robyn Davidson
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.Anna Freud
Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - And thus make yourself indispensable.Andre Gide
When the opponent expand, I contract, When he contracts, I expand, And when there is an opportunity, I do not hit - - It hits all by itself.Bruce Lee
But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.Alfred North Whitehead
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - - That is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.James Thurbe
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.Thomas Szasz
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.Benjamin Disraeli
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) Valley of Fear, 1915
Mediocrity does not see higher than itself. But talent instantly recognizes the genius.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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
Modesty and unselfishness - - These are the virtues which men praise - - And pass by.Andr Maurois
The way to develop self - Confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.William Jennings Bryan
I still have a lot to learn - About the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting.Britney Spears
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
One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.Wilfrid Sheed
Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.Lou Dorfsman
If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around you own.Emerson
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
It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to be kind to another, without helping himself.Bailey
