Self Quotes

If you have a brain in your head and feet in your shoes, you can steer youeself in any direction you choose.

Dr. Seuss

Insist on yourself; never imitate... Every great man is unique.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Enjoy things which are pleasant that is not the evil it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.

Thomas Carlyle

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

Anna Freud

You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide - Sounding Zeus puts a good mind.

Homer, The Iliad

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.

William S. Burroughs

In all the work we do, our most valuable asset can be the attitude of self - Examination. It is forgivable to make mistakes, but to stand fast behind a wall of self - Righteousness and make the same mistake twice is not forgivable.

Dr. Dale E. Turne

There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living... a way in which life itself is sheer knowing.

Laurens Van der Post, Venture to the Interior (1951)

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Alan Watts

To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.

Sophy Burnham

I don? t really do New Year? s resolutions because I don? t think you should have to wait until December to start working on how to change yourself. I think if you? ve got a problem, you need to fix it now.

Clay Aiken

We are more wicked together than separately. If you are forced to be in a crowd, then most of all you should withdraw into yourself.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Christine Bovee

If the programmer can simulate a construct faster then the compiler can implement the construct itself, then the compiler writer has blown it badly.

Guy L. Steele Jr., Tartan Laboratories

But true love is a durable fire In the mind ever burning Never sick, never old, never dead From itself never turning.

Sir Walter Raleigh

I have found it difficult to endear myself to those who could best positively affect the quality of my life.

Eli Khamarov

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.

Samuel Johnson

Self - Trust is the essence of heroism.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When an American says that he loves his country, he... means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self - Respect.

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

Psychoanalysis is that mental illnes for which it regards itself a therapy.

Karl Kraus

Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.

Robert Ingersoll

When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.

Oscar Wilde, Jack from The Importance of Being Earnest

Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth.

Sidney Madwed

If you want your eggs hatched, sit on them yourself.

Haitian Prove

I began by telling the president that there was a cancer growing on the presidency and that if the cancer was not removed... the president himself would be killed by it.

John Dean

Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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

Benjamin Franklin, ?

In summer, the song sings itself.

William Carlos Williams

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

Sir Winston Churchill

There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.

Alfred Adle

Talent is like a faucet while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration - A hoax fabricated by poets for their self - Importance.

Jean Anouilh

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

There is nothing like returing to a place that remains uncganged to find how you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

Meetings are an addictive, highly self - Indulgent activity that corporations and other organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.

Alain van der Heide

Let a man strive to purify his thoughts. What a man thinketh, that is he this is the eternal mystery. Dwelling within himself with thoughts serene, he will obtain imperishable happiness.

Maitri Upanishads

There are at least two kinds of cowards. One kind always lives with himself, afraid to face the world. The other kind lives with the world, afraid to face himself.

Roscoe Snowden

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 one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.

Gustave Flaubert