Self Quotes

Meetings are an addictive, highly self - Indulgent activity that corporations and other organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.

Alain van der Heide

The man who comes with a tale about others has himself an ax to grind.

Chinese prove

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.

Joseph Sobran

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

There are at least two kinds of cowards. One kind always lives with himself, afraid to face the world. The other kind lives with the world, afraid to face himself.

Roscoe Snowden

When your work speaks for itself, dont interrupt.

Henry J. Kaise

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of Mankind is Man.

Alexander Pope

Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.

Alfred North Whitehead

First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - Nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933

He for himself weaves woe who weaves for others woe, and evil counsel on the counselor recoils.

Hesiod

A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.

Henry Ward Beeche

To expect defeat is nine - Tenths of defeat itself.

Francis Crawford

A friend is a second self.

Aristotle

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

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996

Education is life itself.

John Dewey

Self - Pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.

Helen Kelle

Once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing and from robbing he comes next to drinking and sabbath - Breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.

Thamas De Quincey

So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

William Shakespeare

Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself.

Frank Crane

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

Johnson

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

Arthur Brisbane

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

Saint Teresa of Avila

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being and only suffering teaches him this.

Simone Weil

I said to myself that growing up really means slowing down.

Siri Hustvedt, What I Loved, pg. 336

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Oscar Wilde

What ought a man to be Well, my short answer is himself.

Henrik Ibsen

He alone is wise who can accommodate himself to all contingencies of life; but the fool contends, and struggling, like a swimmer, against the stream.

Latin

Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

A greedy man will always find himself in the shackles of humility.

Imam Ali, Peak of Eloquence (Nahjul Balagha)

He who despises himself nevertheless esteems himself as a self - Despiser.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear.

Felix Adle

None of you truly believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.

Muhammad