Self Quotes
I like less the story that a frog if put in cold water will not bestir itself if that water is heated up slowly and gradually and will in the end let itself be boiled alive, too comfortable with continuity to realize that continuous change at some point may become intolerable and demand a change in behavior.Charles Handy - The Age of Unreason
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.Cynthia Ozick
The soul who meditates on the Self is content to serve the Self and rests satisfied within the Self there remains nothing more for him to accomplish.Bhagavad Gita
Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self - Esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.Fritz Perls
I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After - Life spell, And by and by my Soul returned to me, And answered I Myself am Heaven and Hell.Omar Khayym
The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self - Two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.Pope John Paul II
We are survival machines - Robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.Richard Dawkings:, "The Selfish Gene".
It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self - Conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to under - Value them.Henry James
Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being and only suffering teaches him this.Simone Weil
People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - Are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a have type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a have not type of self.Eric Hoffe
Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.Sir Arthur Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World
Patience with others is Love, Patience with self is Hope, Patience with God is Faith.Adel Bestavros
When solving a panic you must first ask yourself what you were doing that could possibly frighten an operating system.Peter van der Linden
Energy is that amazing feeling that comes to life inside of you when you? re happy and believe in yourself.Richard Simmons
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.George Bernard Shaw
I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.William Blake
The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself and carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion. It is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion.Auguste Renoi
Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.G. Stanley Hall
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.Henry Van Dyke
Life itself is neither good nor evil, but only a place for good and evil.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self - Love might impair your judgment.Seneca
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.Pope John XXIII
I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.Lord Tennyson
It is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self - Consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since mathematics, in its own way, also performs this function, it is not only aesthetically charming but profoundly significant. It is an art, and a great art.John W. N. Sullivan
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.Stanislaus
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. you yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.Buddha
The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.Publilius Syrus
Many a man is praised for his reserve and so - Called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.J. B. Priestley
A man is as old as he feels himself to be.English Prove
In your clothes avoid too much gaudiness do not value yourself upon an embroidered gown and remember that a reasonable word, or an obliging look, will gain you more respect than all your fine trappings.Sir George Savile
Meditation... disolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass.Tom Robbins
An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself.Albert Camus
The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.Giovanni Ruffini
Always be a first - Rate version of yourself, instead of a second - Rate version of someone else.Judy Garland
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.Albert Einstein
It took me twenty years of studied self - Restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public.George Bernard Shaw
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
