Self Quotes
Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.Oprah Winfrey
He who cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself.George Herbert
Many a man is praised for his reserve and so - Called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.J. B. Priestley
A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.Voltaire
If you feel yourself falling, let go and glide.Steffen Francisco
It is against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self - Critical?Alan Perlis
He is not laughed at who laughs at himself first.Thomas Fulle
Self awareness is NOT just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.Robert Anson Heinlein
History repeats itself and history never repeats itself are about equally trueWe never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.George Macaulay Trevelyan
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.Sir Winston Churchill
Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.G. Stanley Hall
C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.Bjarne Stroustrup
One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.Wilfrid Sheed
What a searching preacher of self - Command is the varying phenomenon of health.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Blessed are they who heal you of self - Despisings. Of all services which can be done to man, I know of none more precious.William Hale White
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
The real tradegy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort - He never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.Arnold Bennett
Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed: for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess.Rene Descartes, Discourse on Method
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
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.Jessamyn West
Working with children with autism has provided me with an opportunity to see the world in a different way. I see them strive to overcome obstacles and persevere, and learn to persevere myself. They are my inspiration.Clay Aiken
Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, And know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, No coincidences, All events are blessings given to us to learn from.Elizabeth Kubler - Ross
The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - - That is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.James Thurbe
A decision is the action an executive must take when he has information so incomplete that the answer does not suggest itself.Arthur W. Radford
Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber.Ugo Betti
Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it repose in Thee.Saint Augustine, The Confessions. Book 1. (The Harvard Classics. 1909? 14, p. 1)
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death.Sigmund Freud, his essay on war & death
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.Nancy Asto
He who ignores discipline despises himself, but whoever heeds correction gains understanding.Proverbs 1532 Bible
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.Arnold Toynbee
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.Cyril Connolly
His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old stories had a grain or two of truth in them and it was best not to take chances. It was why, he said, he crossed himself whenever a black cat crossed his path.Stephen King
When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.Antoine De Saint - Exupery
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.Henry Kissinge
He wrapped himself in quotations - As a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.Rudyard Kipling
I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.William Harvey
