Self Quotes
The pain of a disappointed wish necessarily produces less effect upon the mind if a man has not certainly promised himself success. - De Tranquillitate Animi.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
But I have always liked bird dogs better than kennel - Fed dogs myself - - You know, one that will get out and hunt for food rather than sit on his fanny and yell.Charles E. Wilson
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
Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.John W. Gardne
There is a certain impertinance in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.Anatole France
There is an atmosphere of well - Sounding oratory that likes to attach itself to dress clothes. Away with it.Albert Einstein
For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.Charles de Gaulle
In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark.Nicholson Bake
Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, February 2003
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.Lord Acton
When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.Albert Einstein, The World as I See It.
I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.William Blake
Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.Ben Stein
He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him if stronger, spare thyself.William Shakespeare
Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.Dame Edna Everage, In a television interview with Joan Rivers
For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavouring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.George Orwell
If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.Napolean Hill
He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.Thomas Paine
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.Mark Twain
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.Michel de Montaigne
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.Josh Billings
When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness. To seek treasures where there is only trash... Too much sanity may be madness, and maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.Miguel De Cervantes, Don Quixote de la Mancha
It is by no means self - Evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.Thomas Elliot
The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action. There is no fixed teaching. All I can provide is an appropriate medicine for a particular ailment.Bruce Lee, Quotation from the book: (The Art of Jeet Kune Do) by Bruce Lee
Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.Chief Seattle
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
Affirmations are like prescriptions for certain aspects of yourself you want to change.Jerry Frankhause
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.Auguste Rodin
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
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.Hunter S. Thompson
The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.Thomas a Kempis
I have a prejudice against people who print things in a foreign language and add no translation. When I am the reader, and the other considers me able to do the translating myself, he pays me the quite a nice compliment - - But if he would do the translating for me I would try to get along without the compliment. A Tramp Abroad, 1880.Mark Twain
Help thyself, and God will help thee.Jean de La Fontaine
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear minded and self - Controlled so that you can pray. Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.1 Peter 47 - 8 Bible
Where talent is a dwarf, self - Esteem is a giant.J. Petit - Senn
The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.Shirley MacLaine
Get into the habit of asking yourself if what you are doing can be handled by someone else.Author Unknown
