Self Quotes

Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.

Alice James

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. you yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

Buddha

He who knows others is wise; He who know himself is enlightened.

Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu

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

The sad news is, nobody owes you a career. Your career is literally your business. You own it as a sole proprietor. You have one employee: yourself. You need to accept ownership of your career, your skills and the timing of your moves.

Andrew Grove, Co - Founder and Chairman of Intel Corporation, Only the Paranoid Survive

When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness. To seek treasures where there is only trash... Too much sanity may be madness, and maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Miguel De Cervantes, Don Quixote de la Mancha

What the superior man seeks is in himself what the small man seeks is in others.

Confucius

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.

Francis Quarles

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

Franz Kafka

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

Lady Nancy Asto

Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.

Baltasar Gracian

I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself. My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I don? t really do New Year? s resolutions because I don? t think you should have to wait until December to start working on how to change yourself. I think if you? ve got a problem, you need to fix it now.

Clay Aiken

Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.

Marva Collins

If you feel yourself falling, let go and glide.

Steffen Francisco

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

No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead. Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study, and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think.

John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859

Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.

Cicero

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self - Evident.

Arthur Schopenhaue

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - Your ideal of what you long to attain - The ideal of health, efficiency, success.

Orison Swett Marden

Women with pasts interest men... they hope history will repeat itself.

Mae West

Nature herself makes the wise man rich.

Cicero

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.

Henry David Thoreau

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

The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas and the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., (dissent, Abrams v. United States, 1919)

Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.

Saint Basil

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself.

Michel de Montaigne

If heaven is going to be full of people like Hardie, well, the Almighty can have them to himself.

Sir Winston Churchill

Instead of solid accomplishments, the man pursues pleasures and self - Gratification. He will never achieve anything so long as he is surrounded by dissipating temptations.

I Ching

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.

Albert Einstein

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of this world is not to have and to hold but to give and serve. There can be no other meaning.

Sir Wilfred T. Grenfell

I bet the sparrow looks at the parrot and thinks, yes, you can talk, but LISTEN TO YOURSELF.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Let no one flatter himself of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.

Saint Augustine

I give myself, sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Mary Montagu

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

Mary Daly

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Mark Twain