Self Quotes
When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.Confucious
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, this is no other life but this.Henry David Thoreau
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.Albert Camus
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
In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.Marechal Ferdinand Foch
To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.George Santayana
A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs.William R Allen
No really great man ever thought himself so.William Hazlitt
He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.Charles Peguy
The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.Gustave Flaubert
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.Dag Hammarskjld
To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.Sylvia Plath, The Bell Ja
Human nature is not of itself vicious.Thomas Paine
If heaven is going to be full of people like Hardie, well, the Almighty can have them to himself.Sir Winston Churchill
The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.Alvin Toffle
The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice; rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.Thomas a Kempis
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.Thomas Jefferson
A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.Arthur Mille
An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself.Albert Camus
The self - Controlled soul, who moves amongst sense objects, free from either attachment or repulsion, he wins eternal Peace.Bhagavad Gita
Respect yourself most of all.Pythagorus
To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
I believe this nation should commit itself, to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.John F. Kennedy, in a speech on May 25, 1961
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.Welsh Prove
Psychoanalysis is that mental illnes for which it regards itself a therapy.Karl Kraus
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.Paul Tillich
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.Spanish Prove
Conquering others takes force, conquering yourself is true strength.Lao - Tzu
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.Albert Camus
You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself.Harry Firestone
Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.Dr. David M. Burns
To be in love Is to touch with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.Gwendolyn Brooks
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.Henry Van Dyke
The worst of all deceptions is self - Deception.Saul Bellow
Always be a first - Rate version of yourself, instead of a second - Rate version of somebody else.Judy Garland
Let him that would move the world, first move himself.Socrates
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself - And be lenient to everybody else.Henry Ward Beeche