Self Quotes
Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.Dr. David M. Burns
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die and do not outlive yourself.George Bernard Shaw
The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.John Updike
No man ever listened himself out of a job.Calvin Coolidge
The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self - Seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts.Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics
The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.Sonya Friedman
To be nobody - But - Yourself - - In a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - - Means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.E e cummings
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
In summer, the song sings itself.William Carlos Williams
It is noble to teach oneself, but still nobler to teach others - - And less trouble. - Speech, 1906.Mark Twain
May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.Voltaire
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
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.Jose Ortega y Gasset
I speak BASIC to clients, 1 - 2 - 3 to management, and mumble to myself.Anon.
No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of ther beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems.Anne Rice, "Blood and Gold".
Self - Confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.Samuel Johnson
The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.Roger Banniste
Get into the habit of asking yourself if what you are doing can be handled by someone else.Author Unknown
No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.A. A. Milne
You give but little when you give of your posessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.Kahlil Gibran, The Prohpet, 1923
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
In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark.Nicholson Bake
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.George Gurdjieff
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self - Distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.Amos Bronson Alcott
The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world of the commodity is a world updside - Down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work.Raoul Vaneigem
The difficult child is the child who is unhappy. He is at war with himself; and in consequence, he is at war with the world.A. S. Neill, Summerhill
If the thunder is not loud, the peasant forgets to cross himself.Assyrian Prove
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.G. K. Chesterton
Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self - Righteous isolation.John Dewey
There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self.Demosthenes
I was taught very early that I would have to depend entirely upon myself that my future lay in my own hands.Darius Ogden Mills
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".
The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.Wystan Hugh Auden
The worst of all deceptions is self - Deception.Saul Bellow
