Self Quotes
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
To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.Hermann Hesse
If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself.Joseph Farrell
An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself.Albert Camus
A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate.La Rochefoucauld
There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulities or you alter yourself to meet them.Phyllis Battone
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
One must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star.Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Of all afflictions, the worst is self - Contempt.Berthold Auerbach
I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.Kahlil Gibran, The Broken Wings
There is always someone worse off than yourself.Aesop
There is nothing to fear but fear itself.Franklin D. Roosevelt
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.George Bernard Shaw
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.William Shenstone
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.Pope John XXIII
I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.Walt Whitman
Friends are relatives you make for yourself.Eustache Descamps
Man is always more than he can know of himself consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.Golo Mann
They say that time changes things, but actually you have to change them yourself.Andy Warhol
Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.Jesse Stuart
In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark.Nicholson Bake
Where self - Interest is suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control that dries up the wellspring of initiative and creativity.Pope John Paul II
The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.Vince Lombardi
What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble.Benjamin Spock
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.Thomas Jefferson
The wise should surrender speech in mind, mind in the knowing self, the knowing self in the Spirit of the universe, and the Spirit of the universe in the Spirit of peace.Maitri Upanishads
Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.Pearl S. Buck
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me.Simone de Beauvoi
Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.Johnson
Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul.Pythagorus
My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.Robert Browning
There are pauses amidst study, and even pauses of seeming idleness, in which a process goes on which may be likened to the digestion of food. In those seasons of repose, the powers are gathering their strength for new efforts; as land which lies fallow recovers itself for tillage.J. W. Alexande
Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.Sir John Gielgud
For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life.Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Duties I
Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.Iris Murdoch
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
It is regrettable that, among the Rights of Man, the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten.Charles Baudelaire
Working with children with autism has provided me with an opportunity to see the world in a different way. I see them strive to overcome obstacles and persevere, and learn to persevere myself. They are my inspiration.Clay Aiken
