Self Quotes
Self - Respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.H. L. Mencken
No one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.Charles Dudley Warne
I count him braver who conquers his desires than him who conquers his enemies for the hardest victort is the victory over self.Aristotle
The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - - Making it possible to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.Susan Sontag
This coffee plunges into the stomach... the mind is aroused, and ideas pour forth like the battalions of the Grand Army on the field of battle.... Memories charge at full gallop... the light cavalry of comparisons deploys itself magnificently; the artillery of logic hurry in with their train of ammunition; flashes of wit pop up like sharp - Shooters.Honore de Balzac
No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.Seneca
Honesty rare as a man without self - Pity, kinders as large and plain as a prairie wind.Stephen Vincent Benet
I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.Richard Whately
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.Seneca
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.Thomas Szasz, "The Second Sin".
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do, Ohara Publications
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
Nothing is easier than self - Deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.Demosthenes, Third Olynthiac
To linger in the observation of things other than the self implies a profound conviction of their worth.Charles - Damian Boulogne
No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.Pythagorus
Your purpose in relationships is simply to be your best self, regardless of the circumstances.Rosalene Glickman, Ph. D., Optimal Thinking: How to Be Your Best Self
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.Brenda Ueland
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.Stanislaus
If you want your eggs hatched, sit on them yourself.Haitian Prove
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
A fanatic is one compelled to action by the need to find a strong meaning in life. The fanatic determines for himself what role he is to play in life, and his intense devotion to a cause is the means.Eugene E. Brussell
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
Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.Iris Murdoch
Promote yourself, but do not demote another.Israel Salante
Formerly a public man needed a private secretary for a barrier between himself and the public. Nowadays he has a press secretary to keep him properly in the public eye.Daniel J. Boorstin
It is the part of a wise man to keep himself to - Day for to - Morrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.Miguel de Cervantes
A man, to be greatly good, must magine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and in many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.Percy Bysshe Shelley
When you meet the president, you ask yourself, How did it ever occur to anybody that he should be governor much less president.Henry Kissinge
Through the doors of perception Down the corridors of uncertainty Into the room of self doubt Opens the window of opportunity.Unknown
Before a man can wake up and find himself famous he has to wake up and find himself.Author Unknown
A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.Alec Waugh
Real love is a permanently self - Enlarging experience.M. Scott Peck, O Magazine, February 2004
Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid.William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
What a man thinks of himself that is what determines, or rather indicates his fate.Henry David Thoreau
The way to develop self - Confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.William Jennings Bryan
Maturity beings to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.John MacNaughton
