Self Quotes

Cicero, de amicitia - a friend is, as it were, a second self....
Thomas a kempis - endeavor to be always patient of the faults and...
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell.
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Letters, 1952
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
I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
Thomas Jefferson
The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.
Seneca
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self - Respect will you compel others to respect you.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The self - Explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.
Elias Canetti
Franklin d. roosevelt - n. b. fear itself. see also h. d. thoreau....
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong.
Jane Austen
Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.
Mary Hemingway
The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.
George Washington Allston
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
Johann von Goethe
Where talent is a dwarf, self - Esteem is a giant.
J. Petit - Senn
It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always this occupation ought to last as long as life.
Queen Christina
Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.
Elsa Maxwell, September 28, 1958
To establish oneself in the world, one has to do all one can to appear established.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed.
Solomon Short
Give not over thy soul to sorrow and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.
Ecclesiastes
He that thinks himself the wisest is generally the least so.
C. C. Colton
If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built - In mental disorder which drives him towards self - Destruction.
Arthur Koestle
Dare to be yourself.
Andre Gide
Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.
Oprah Winfrey
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 any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.
Robyn Davidson
All of the significant battles are waged within the self.
Sheldon Kopp
Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.
Robert Ingersoll
I celebrate myself, and sing myself.
Walt Whitman, Song of Myself, 1855
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
Jean Anouilh
No man is wise enough by himself.
Titus Maccius Plautus, Miles Gloriosus
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
Bertrand Russell
It is one of those beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Charles Dudley Warne
Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth.
Edgar Watson Howe
You try to give away what you want yourself.
Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
Publilius Syrus
Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
Henry James
It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you can make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost....
Richard Bach
Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self - Love.
Francois de Fenelon
I wish everybody would have to have an electric thing implanted in our heads that gave us a shock whenever we did something to disobey the president. Then somehow I get myself elected president.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
Charles De Gaulle