Self Quotes
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.Jacopo Sannazaro
You must be willing to protect yourself and what you cherish, no matter what the cost.Christopher Paolini, Author of Eragon and Eldest. Quote from Eragon.
Get into the habit of asking yourself if what you are doing can be handled by someone else.Author Unknown
The man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.Charles Schwa
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.Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.John Lancaster Spalding
All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself.Harry Firestone
Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.Michael Masser and Linda Creed
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
To thine own self be true -; And it must follow as the night the day; Thou canst not be false to any man.William Shakespeare
One must really have suffered oneself to help others.Mother Theresa
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
The world is full of fools and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking - Glass.Nicolas Boileau
Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it.Thaddeus Golas
The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.W. S. Maugham, Of Human Bondage
Unless you are prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.Orison Swett Marden
Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.Sir Walter Raleigh
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
Language exists only on the surface of our consciousness. The great human struggles are played out in silence and in the ability to express oneself.Franz Xavier Kroetz
Wherever a set of alternative possible routes toward achieving a given end presents itself, a student movement will tend to choose the one which involves a higher measure of violence or humiliation directed against the older generation.Lewis S Feue
I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.Oscar Levant
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.George Bernard Shaw
He for himself weaves woe who weaves for others woe, and evil counsel on the counselor recoils.Hesiod
Self - Confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.Samuel Johnson
The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.Mark Twain
Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 3
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
An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.Samuel Smiles
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.Pope John Paul II
Hope itself is a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.Samuel Johnson
If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.Mark
You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.Ethel Barrymore
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ
Happy is he who can give himself up.Naguib Mahfouz
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
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.Ralph Waldo Emerson
