Self Quotes

Carl r. rogers - if we value independence, if we are disturbed by...
Edmund burke, a philosophical inquiry into the origins of the sublime and beatiful. - a man who works beyond the surface of things,...
Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, And know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, No coincidences, All events are blessings given to us to learn from.
Elizabeth Kubler - Ross
The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of an endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.
Robyn Davidson
The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde
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
Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.
Thomas Hobbes
He who has injured thee was stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him if stronger, spare thyself.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Pierre charron - the most excellent and divine counsel, the best...
That you may retain your self - Respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
William J. H. Boetcke
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
The giving of love is an education in itself.
Roosevelt, Eleano
Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.
William Harvey
If heaven is going to be full of people like Hardie, well, the Almighty can have them to himself.
Sir Winston Churchill
Whoever is open, loyal, true of humane and affable demeanour honourable himself, and in his judgement of others faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man.... such a man is a true gentleman.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
James A. Garfield
Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.
Rita Mae Brown
You cannot stand anywhere in the universe that is outside of yourself.
Deepak Chopra
To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.
Benjamin Jowett
Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.
Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.
Robert Fritz
As a matter of self - Preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.
Diogenes
Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.
Joel Hawes
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
Self - Love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing people a favor, and vise versa.
Dr. Karl A. Menninge
He is a self - Made man, very much in love with his creator.
Benjamin Disraeli
Friendship without self - Interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
James F. Byrnes
In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.
Marechal Ferdinand Foch
The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself - Always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.
James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
Self - Reverence, self knowledge, self - Control. These three alone lead life to sovereign power.
Lord Tennyson
The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.
Claude Levi - Strauss
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Mark Twain
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do you ever sit down and wonder what is wrong with the world Do you ever ask yourself why it is that Christians seem to have so little influence, why they seem to achieve so little, for all their numbers, in putting the world right To each of those two questions there is ultimately but one answer. It is this we lack the mind of Christ.
J. Arthur Lewis
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Epistle Dedicatory
If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
Confucius
If a child lives with approval, he learns to live with himself.
Dorothy Law Nolte