Self Quotes

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

Albert Einstein

The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - Bread and circuses!

Juvenal, Satires

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".

I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.

William Blake

I do not know what I may appear to the world but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Isaac Newton

First make yourself unpopular, then people will take you seriously.

Konrad Adenauer, 1876 - 1967

A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.

George Bernard Shaw

If you feel yourself falling, let go and glide.

Steffen Francisco

Self - Trust, we know, is the first secret of success.

Lady Wilde

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

Johnson

Do not measure your loss by itself if you do, it will seem intolerable but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.

Saint Basil

As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.

Leonardo DaVinci

You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.

John Ruskin

There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulities or you alter yourself to meet them.

Phyllis Battone

What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self - Conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.

Epictetus, Discourses

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

Sir Winston Churchill

I was never less alone than while by myself.

Edward Lawrence Gibson

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.

Bokonon

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

Samuel Johnson

There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out.

Judith Rossne

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.

Samuel Johnson

We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - Your ideal of what you long to attain - The ideal of health, efficiency, success.

Orison Swett Marden

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - - Making it possible to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

Susan Sontag

Experience shows that success is due less to ability that to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.

Charles Buxton

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

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self take the shape Of every creature in whom he is present.

Maitri Upanishads

On reflection, one of the things I needed to learn was to allow myself to be loved.

Isha McKenzie - Mavinga

He who ignores discipline despises himself, but whoever heeds correction gains understanding.

Proverbs 1532 Bible

Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight. Equilibrium is pragmatic. You have to get everything into proportion. You compensate, rebalance yourself so that you maintain your angle to the world. When the world shifts, you shift.

Tom Stoppard

Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you - - Out of love - - Takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice.

Dag Hammarskjld

The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal - - Or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.

Elizabeth Peters

Make yourself familiar with the angels, and behold them frequently in spirit for without being seen, they are present with you.

Saint Francis de Sales

What you love is a sign from your higher self of what you are to do.

Sanaya Roman

If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath - Breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.

Thomas De Quincey, Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts - 1827

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Aldous Huxley

There is no limit to stupidity. Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity.

Gene Wolfe