Self Quotes
Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.Matthew Arnold
Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity.Charles Caleb Colton
Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.Desiderius Erasmus
The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself - Always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
If you had it all to do over, would you fall in love with yourself again?Author Unknown
Self - Respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.John Herschel
A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.Vince Lombardi
Be fully in the moment, open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.Ernest Hemingway
In history as in life it is success that counts. Start a political upheaval and let yourself be caught, and you will hang as a traitor. But place yourself at the head of a rebellion and gain your point, and all future generations will worship you as the Father of their Country.Hendrik W. Van Loon
Love becomes perfect only when it transcends itself - - Becoming One with its object Producing Unity of Being.Hakim Jami
At sixteen I was stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. At twenty - Five I was wise, self - Confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty - Five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence?Jules Feiffe
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.Abraham Maslow
Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.Mark Twain
The only difference between a madman and myself is that I am not mad.Salvidor Dali
A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
Once in a while you have to take a break and visit yourself.Audrey Giorgi
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
A man without justice is a beast, and a man who would make himself a beast forgets the pain of being a man.Timothy Leary
First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - Nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933
He who knows others is wise; He who know himself is enlightened.Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.Beryl Markham
I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself.Terence, Adelphoe
Loneliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best thing you can do it to know yourself... know what you want.Janet Fitch, "White Oleander".
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.Jalal ud - Din Rumi
Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.Josiah Royce
Other people may not have high expectations of me, But I have high expectations for myself.Shannon Mille
That you may retain your self - Respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.William J. H. Boetcke
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.Cynthia Heimel
Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.Eleanor Roosevelt
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.Agnes Repplie
The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking - Glass.Boileau
Everyone is in business for himself, for he is selling his services, labor or ideas. Until one realizes that this is true he will not take conscious charge of his life and will always be looking outside himself for guidance.Sidney Madwed
We hold these truths to be self - Evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments a.Thomas Jefferson
A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the faade of his appearance.Jean Iris Murdoch
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.E. B. White
Who to himself is law, no law doth need.Arthur Chapman
Self - Trust is the essence of heroism.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self - Respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.Thomas Huxley
