Self Quotes
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
No really great man ever thought himself so.William Hazlitt
A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself.Unknown
America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.George Herbert Walker Bush
We hold these truths to be self - Evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.US Declaration of Independence
Formal education will make you a living self - Education will make you a fortune.Jim Rohn
Conventionality is not morality. Self - Righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.Charlotte Bronte
Of all the self - Fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.Marilyn Ferguson, The Aquarian Conspiracy, 1980
Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, August 2004
America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant.Garry Trudeau
Remember Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - Then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.Endicott Peabody
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.Sir Winston Churchill
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.Sophia Loren
The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - - That is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.James Thurbe
No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.Saint John Chrysostom, Letter to Olympia
Egotist a person more interested in himself than in me.Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self - Love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self - Absorption.Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.Aristotle, Politics
A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - That is myself.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, "Meditations", book 2.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.Michael Jordan
If I am not for myself, who is for me But if I am for my own self only, what am I, and if not now, when.Rabbi Hillel
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.Henry David Thoreau
Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.G. C. Lichtenberg
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.Bokonon
Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.Robert Ingersoll
God save me from my friends. I can protect myself from my enemies.Claude Louis Hector de Villars
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.Andre Maurois
That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust.Gustave Flaubert, 1, 911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said
Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he who thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.C. C. Colton
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.George Bernard Shaw
Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.Plato
Learn to limit yourself, to content yourself with some definite thing, and some definite work dare to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not and to believe in your own individuality.Henri Frdric Amiel
Mediocrity does not see higher than itself. But talent instantly recognizes the genius.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself.John Harold
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.Jim Morrison
When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself.Luigi Pirandello
