Self Quotes
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but that mark of a fake messiah.Richard Bach
People are unreasonable, illogical, and self - Centered. Love them anyway.Mother Theresa
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
The opinions we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself.Marcel Proust
If you turn your back on these people, you yourself are an animal. You may be a well - Dressed animal, but you are nevertheless an animal.Edward Irving Koch
I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there.Fred Allen
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
If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.Orison Swett Marden
If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.Saint Augustine
Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.Albert Einstein
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
Meditation... disolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass.Tom Robbins
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.Frederick Douglas
I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself.Terence, Adelphoe
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.Mark Twain
Happy is he who can give himself up.Naguib Mahfouz
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.Arthur Brisbane
There is nothing remarkable about it, all one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.J. S. Bach
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.Kurt Vonnegut
I am a poet. I lock myself in my room with a type writer so I can talk in terms of the world that has put me here.Eric Pio
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
He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.William Shakespeare
Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.George Bernard Shaw
I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better then the bad.Seneca
The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect he becomes an adolescent the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult the day he forgives himself he becomes wise.Alden Nowlan
You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentrate on being happy with yourself as you are.J. Jacques, Questionable Content webcomic, #352, 05 - 04 - 05
Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.Miguel de Cervantes
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.George Sand
Do not measure your loss by itself if you do, it will seem intolerable but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.Saint Basil
This quote reminds me to enjoy each moment of the summer Steep thyself in a bowl of summertime.Virgil
Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to knowledge, has proved potentially dangerous, because it has not been accompanied by equal gains in self - Understanding and self - Discipline.Lewis Mumford
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Sometimes when I look at my children I say to myself, Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.Lillian Carter, mother of Jimmy and Billy
Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul None is more gladdening or fruitful than to know You can regenerate and make yourself what you will.William James
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.Rainer Maria Rilke
