Self Quotes

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

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Oscar Wilde

I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me instead of looking within myself to see what was there.

Belle Livingstone

Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.

Alice James

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

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Roosevelt, Eleano

Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.

Sir Thomas Browne

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

Courage consists of the power of self - Recovery.

Julie Arabi

Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.

Horace, Epistles

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

Sir Thomas Browne

Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.

Jimmy Carte

Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.

Kyle Chandle

The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.

Charles Dudley Warne

Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.

Plato

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".

Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.

Josiah Royce

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.

Elisabeth Kubler - Ross

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self - Respect.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

Franz Kafka

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.

Galileo Galilei

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Katherine Mansfield

There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases; it is the easiest thing of all to deceive one? s self.

Demosthenes, Olynthiac

Are you bored with life Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Dale Carnegie

If your house is on fire, warm yourself by it.

Danish prove

Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it.

Thaddeus Golas

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.

Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle is a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifests itself in the form of a feeling.

Nathaniel Brandon

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

Heraclitus

The honey from the flowers of the senses, Ever present within, ruler of time, Goes beyond fear. For this Self is Supreme.

Maitri Upanishads

It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.

Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957

Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.

Benjamin Franklin

You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.

Plato, Dialogues, Theatetus

I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, and receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.

Woody Allen

Knowledge and personality make doubt possible, but knowledge is also the cure of doubt; and when we get a full and adequate sense of personality we are lifted into a region where doubt is almost impossible, for no man can know himself as he is, and all fullness of his nature, without also knowing God.

T. T. Munge

First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ, 1420

Practice yourself what you preach.

Titus Maccius Plautus, Asinaria