Self Quotes

The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall to - Day be uppermost.

Confucius

Malice sucks up the greater part of her own venom, and poisons herself.

Michel de Montaigne

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.

Sun - Tzu

My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...

Trieu Thi Trinh

Responsiblity is a unique concept. It can only reside and inhere in a single individual. You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished. You may delegate it, but it is still with you. You may disclaim it, but you cannot divest yourself of it.

Admiral Hyman Rickove

I hate mankind, for I think of myself as one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

Samuel Johnson

Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Experience is an asset of which no worker can be cheated, no matter how selfish or greedy his immediate employer may be.

Napolean Hill

A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.

William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating

The only gift is a portion of thyself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I do not think myself to be a worm, and a grub, grass of the field fit only to be burned, a clod, a morsel of putrid atoms that should be thrown to the dungheap, ready for the nethermost pit. Nor if I did should I therefore expect to sit with Angels and Archangels.

Anthony Trollope

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

Sir Winston Churchill

I check myself every day just to make sure this is the same person.

Tony Kanal

What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.

Carlos Fuentes

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

God conceals himself from the mind of man, but reveals himself to his heart.

African Prove

Creation is a better means of self - Expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.

Vida D. Scudde

To be proud of virtue is to poison oneself with the antidote.

Benjamin Franklin, ?

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.

Ann Landers

Any effort that has self - Glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.

Robert M. Pirsig

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Do whatever comes your way as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people and other things that are interesting. Put a good deal of thought into happiness that you are able to give.

Roosevelt, Eleano

Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self - Praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.

Arnold Bennett

As the moon retaineth her nature, though darkness spread itself before her face as a curtain, so the Soul remaineth perfect even in the bosom of the fool.

Akhenaton

Above all things, reverence yourself.

Pythagoras

Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness: on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming at something else, they find happiness by the way.

John Stuart Mill

Would you hurt a man keenest, strike at his self - Love.

Lewis Lew Wallace

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.

Adele Brookman

Where there are no tigers, a wildcat is very self - Important.

Korean Prove

Magic is believing in yourself. If you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Foka Gomez

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a world - wide depression all by myself.

Herbert Clark Hoove

I still have a lot to learn - About the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting.

Britney Spears

The self - Controlled soul, who moves amongst sense objects, free from either attachment or repulsion, he wins eternal Peace.

Bhagavad Gita

I have no help to send, therefore I must go myself.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King