Self Quotes

The very fact of its finding itself in agreement with other minds perturbs it, so that it hunts for points of divergence, feeling the urgent need to make it clear that at least it reached the same conclusions by a different route.

Herbert Butterfield

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.

Benjamin Spock

I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know that there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.

Albert Camus

Energy is that amazing feeling that comes to life inside of you when you? re happy and believe in yourself.

Richard Simmons

It was when Lucifer first congratulated himself upon his angelic behavior that he became the tool of evil.

Dag Hammarskjld

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self - Confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

Arnold Bennett

There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know these things.

Hal Borland

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell, September 28, 1958

All the blessings which you pray to obtain hereafter could be yours today, if you did not deny them to yourself.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations? Book Twelve

He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying.

Michel de Montaigne

Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.

Immanuel Kant, CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON

You want to raise your child in such a way that you don? t have to control him, so that he will be in full possession of himself at all times. Upon that depends his good behavior, his health, his sanity.

L. Ron Hubbard, Book: Child Dianetics

The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of Hell and a hell of Heaven.

John Milton, Dr. Faustus

Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.

Lord Chesterfield

I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, December 2003

My main hope for myself is to be where I am.

Woody Harrelson

When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself.

Luigi Pirandello

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

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out.

Judith Rossne

Let a man strive to purify his thoughts. What a man thinketh, that is he this is the eternal mystery. Dwelling within himself with thoughts serene, he will obtain imperishable happiness.

Maitri Upanishads

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

Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia

If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.

Sidney Madwed

Washington is like a self - Sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.

Dean Acheson (1893 - 1971)

You have to expect things of yourself before you do them.

Michael Jordan

Pascal keeps your hand tied. C gives you enough rope to hang yourself.

Anon.

Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed: for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess.

Rene Descartes, Discourse on Method

Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth.

Edgar Watson Howe

Of all the communities available to us there is not one I would want to devote myself to, except for the society of the true searchers, which has very few living members at any time.

Albert Einstein

Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Samuel Johnson

But words came halting forth, wanting Inventions stayInvention, Natures child, fled step - Dame Studys blows... Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite, Fool, said my Muse to me look in thy heart and write.

Sir Philip Sidney

Do you know what a pessimist is? A person who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself and hates them for it.

George Bernard Shaw

If you must hold yourself up to your children, hold yourself up as an object lesson and not as an example.

Sir Walter Besant

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

William Shakespeare, Hamlet

If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.

Marlene Dietrich

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

Elisabeth Kuebler - Ross