Self Quotes

A threat is basically a means for establishing a bargaining position by inducing fear in the subject. When a threat is used, it should always be implied that the subject himself is to blame by using words such as You leave me no other choice but to...

CIA Manual

I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better then the bad.

Seneca

The power of one is above all things The power to believe in yourself Often well beyond any latent ability previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete, The body is simply the means it uses.

Bryce Courtenay

I was never less alone than while by myself.

Edward Lawrence Gibson

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

Iris Murdoch

Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We must not just be in the world and above the world, but also of the world. To love it for what it is... is the only task. Avoid it and you are lost. Loose yourself in it, and you are free.

Henry Miller, in a letter to Lawrence Durrell

The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes.

Aubrey Menen

Promote yourself, but do not demote another.

Israel Salante

I have lost the half of myself? a soul for which mine was made.

Voltaire

Nothing is easier than self - Deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.

Demosthenes, Third Olynthiac

The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master - Something that at time strangely wills and works for itself.

Charlotte Bronte

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

Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously; and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.

Booth Tarkington

The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.

Alvin Toffle

Practice yourself what you preach.

Titus Maccius Plautus, Asinaria

For myself I am an optimist - It does not seem to be much use being anything else.

Sir Winston Churchill

Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood.

Louise Beal

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

Few are agreeable in conversation, because each thinks of what he intends to say than of what others are saying, and listens no more when he himself has a chance to speak.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

H. L. Mencken

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists".

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.

Chinese Prove

He who falls in love with himself, will have no rivals.

Ben Franklin

A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense.

American Prove

I have never seen a wild thing feel sorry for itself. A little bird will fall dead, frozen from a bough, without ever having felt sorry for itself.

D. H. Lawrence

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Johann von Goethe

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

Napolean Hill

Know, first, who you are and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

Look at the bow in the cloud, in the very rain itself. That is a sign that the sun, though you cannot see it, is shining still - - That up above beyond the cloud is still sunlight and warmth and cloudless blue sky.

Charles Kingsley

If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself.

Horace

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia

Once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing and from robbing he comes next to drinking and sabbath - Breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.

Thamas De Quincey

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The most disturbing and wasteful emotions in modern life, next to fright, are those which are associated with the idea of blame, directed against the self or against others.

Marilyn Ferguson

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