Self Quotes
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.Ann Landers
Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.Jesse Stuart
As a matter of self - Preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.Diogenes
Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.Jimmy Carte
A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate.La Rochefoucauld
When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there... now instead of then.Blaise Pascal
Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.Silius Italicus
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.Oscar Wilde
Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.Kahlil Gibran
How anybody dresses is indicative of his self - Concept. If students are dirty and ragged, it indicates they are not interested in tidying up their intellects either.S Hayakawa
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.Oscar Wilde
Do you ever sit down and wonder what is wrong with the world Do you ever ask yourself why it is that Christians seem to have so little influence, why they seem to achieve so little, for all their numbers, in putting the world right To each of those two questions there is ultimately but one answer. It is this we lack the mind of Christ.J. Arthur Lewis
Self - Help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself.Morarji Ranchhodji Desai
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.Lucille Ball
Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide he exposes himself.Jeanne Moreau
Thinking The talking of the soul with itself.Plato
Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - The world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.Henry Mille
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.Mark Twain
No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.Seneca
The only place you will be accepted is the place you make for yourself.Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992
Each bird loves to hear himself sing.Arapaho Prove
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...Trieu Thi Trinh
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.Aaron Copland
No man is wise enough by himself.Titus Maccius Plautus, Miles Gloriosus
For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.Charles de Gaulle
Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.G. C. Lichtenberg
A bachelor is a selfish, undeserving guy who has cheated some woman out of a divorce.Don Quinn
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?Rabbi Hillel
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness to an opponent, tolerance to a friend, your heart to your child, a good example to a father, deference to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you to yourself, respect to all men, charity.Francis Maitland Balfou
I have found a desire within myself that no experience in this world can satisfy; the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.C. S. Lewis
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
I look at my myself and see a stone, I look at my friends and see gold, But I look at you, and see a gem.Unknown
If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
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
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
I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world.Russell Bake
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.Albert Einstein
