Self Quotes
But respect yourself most of all.Golden verses of the Pythagoreans
I know all except myself.Francois Villon, Ballade des Menus Propres
If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath - Breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.Thomas De Quincey, Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts - 1827
Book dedication To myself, without whose inspired and tireless efforts this book would not have been possible.Al Jaffee
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.Ben Franklin
An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself.Albert Camus
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.Froude
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone.Samuel Johnson
When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.Calvin Coolidge
He who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself.John Milton
Life itself is neither good nor evil, but only a place for good and evil.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me - Nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - But I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.John Keats, Letter to Fanny Brawne, Feb 1820 - Died 1 year late
The honey from the flowers of the senses, Ever present within, ruler of time, Goes beyond fear. For this Self is Supreme.Maitri Upanishads
The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.Charles Peguy
Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.Augusten Burroughs, Magical Thinking
Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.William Shakespeare
Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.Thomas a Kempis
Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.Albert Einstein
No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.A. A. Milne
The soul who meditates on the Self is content to serve the Self and rests satisfied within the Self there remains nothing more for him to accomplish.Bhagavad Gita
The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal - - Or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.Elizabeth Peters
On reflection, one of the things I needed to learn was to allow myself to be loved.Isha McKenzie - Mavinga
The only difference between a madman and myself is that I am not mad.Salvidor Dali
But he that is the greatest among you shall be your servant. And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abused and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.Matthew 2311, 12 Bible
Nature herself makes the wise man rich.Cicero
The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.Sonya Friedman
You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide - Sounding Zeus puts a good mind.Homer, The Iliad
He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.Lord Herbert
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self - Gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.Helen Kelle
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957
Somehow he Tim gets thoughtful sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant for them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see.Charles Dickens
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self - Interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self - Love, and never talk to them of our own neccessities but of their advantages.Adam Smith
To thine own self be true -; And it must follow as the night the day; Thou canst not be false to any man.William Shakespeare
The mirror never sees itself. The reflection never is itself.J. Gregory Keyes, "Babylon 5: Dark Genesis: The Birth of the Psi Corps".
