Self Quotes
As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.Adelle Davis
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene 3
To be nobody - But - Yourself - - In a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - - Means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.E e cummings
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.Robert Fritz
We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.Jane Austen
Insist on yourself never imitate... Every great man is unique.Ralph Waldo Emerson
You give but little when you give of your posessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.Kahlil Gibran, The Prohpet, 1923
No man ought to lay a cross upon himself, or to adopt tribulation, as is done in popedom but if a cross or tribulation come upon him, then let him suffer it patiently, and know that it is good and profitable for him.Martin Luthe
Through the doors of perception Down the corridors of uncertainty Into the room of self doubt Opens the window of opportunity.Unknown
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.Jacopo Sannazaro
I have never seen a wild thing feel sorry for itself. A little bird will fall dead, frozen from a bough, without ever having felt sorry for itself.D. H. Lawrence
This report, by its very length, defends itself against being read.Winston Churchill
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.Sir Walter Raleigh
I believe that to meet the challenge of the next century, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. Each of us must learn to work not just for his or her own self, family or nation, but for the benefit of all mankind.His Holiness the Dalai Lama, speech? in 1994
No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.Amos Bronson Alcott
The root of fear is the death of yourself or someone you care about, but this will inevitably happen since we are only mortal, so why fea.Unknown
The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.Whitney Young
History repeats itself historians repeat each other.Philip Guedalla
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.Sir Richard F. Burton
I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, and receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.Woody Allen
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.Abraham Lincoln
Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously; and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.Booth Tarkington
Neither a borrower nor a lender be For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.William Shakespeare
He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid. But he said, in substance, to himself that if the earth and the moon were about to clash, many people would doubtless plan to get upon the roofs to witness the collision.Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage, chapter 8
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.Kahlil Gibran
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke and that the joke is oneself.Clifton Paul Fadiman
Maturity beings to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.John MacNaughton
Educate your children to self - Control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.Benjamin Franklin
Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.Henry David Thoreau
I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.Meryl Streep
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.Mark Twain
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.Reggie Leach
The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect he becomes an adolescent the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult the day he forgives himself he becomes wise.Alden Nowlan
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.Nathaniel Hawthorne
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - Especially when one is right.Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.Henry David Thoreau
