Self Quotes

Mark twain - the best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer...
He who conquers others is strong He who conquers himself is mighty.
Lao Tzu
No man is demolished but by himself.
Richard Bently
You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself.
Harvey Firestone
Shun praise. Praise leads to self - Delusion. Thy body is not Self, thyself is in itself without a body, and either praise or blame affects it not.
H Hahn Blavatsky
Assyrian prove - if the thunder is not loud, the peasant forgets...
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
Robert Louis Stevenson
People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - Are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a have type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a have not type of self.
Eric Hoffe
Lord billingsley - the true fanatic is a theocrat, someone who sees...
We can begin by noting that the body prefers to keep itself alive.
John Tierney, Esquire, August 1981
What we won when all of our people united... must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. ... Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Thinking The talking of the soul with itself.
Plato
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
George Bernard Shaw
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
I looked with chameleon eyes upon the changing face of the world, looked with anonymous vision upon my uncompleted self.
Anais Nin, House of Incest
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
Benjamin Disraeli
Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings essential to success.
John McDonald
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
Jane Austen
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me.
Simone de Beauvoi
Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself.
Bertrand Russell
Meditation... disolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass.
Tom Robbins
When you start to doubt yourself, the real world will eat you alive.
Henry Rollins, From his song "Shine".
Self - Loving is not so vile a sin, my liege, as self - Neglecting.
William Shakespeare
Do you know what a pessimist is A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
George Bernard Shaw
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes. It may even lie on the surface; but we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions? especially selfish ones.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Peace and Violence, sct. 2, in Index, no. 4 (London, 1973.
A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.
Robert Burton
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
Buddha
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
There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases; it is the easiest thing of all to deceive one? s self.
Demosthenes, Olynthiac
If you seek yourself,... you rob the lens of its transparency.... You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means.
Dag Hammarskjld
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
No book has yet been written in praise of a woman who let her husband and children starve or suffer while she invented even the most useful things, or wrote books, or expressed herself in art, or evolved philosophic systems.
Anna Garlin Spence
Fortunately psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
Karen Horney
It is easy to bring others down to your level, Instead of bringing yourself up to their level, But it is never ever right.
Unknown
He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
Charles Peguy
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
George Bernard Shaw
I have found it difficult to endear myself to those who could best positively affect the quality of my life.
Eli Khamarov
When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer - Say traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep - It is on such occasions that my ideas flow best, and most abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not, nor can I force them...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self - Gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Kelle