Self Quotes
To thine own self be true -; And it must follow as the night the day; Thou canst not be false to any man.William Shakespeare
The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.Jane Wagne
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
Psychoanalysis is that mental illnes for which it regards itself a therapy.Karl Kraus
I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.Charles Dudley Warne
She had learned the self - Deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and grasping, but her artifices could not always cover the nakedness of her need to excel.Faith Sullivan, The Cape Ann, 1988
The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.John Ciardi
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the governing of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address
An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.Maurice Masterlinck
The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.Simone Weil
Education must provide the opportunities for self - Fulfillment it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.Noam Chomsky
Wherever a set of alternative possible routes toward achieving a given end presents itself, a student movement will tend to choose the one which involves a higher measure of violence or humiliation directed against the older generation.Lewis S Feue
I have found it difficult to endear myself to those who could best positively affect the quality of my life.Eli Khamarov
When he stood up, it was a very complicated motion. If the deck chairs on the Ship to the Sea of Night had opened up, they would have done so like that. It was like he was unfolding himself forever.Neil Gaiman, Good Omens
The pain of a disappointed wish necessarily produces less effect upon the mind if a man has not certainly promised himself success. - De Tranquillitate Animi.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts.Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics
Working with children with autism has provided me with an opportunity to see the world in a different way. I see them strive to overcome obstacles and persevere, and learn to persevere myself. They are my inspiration.Clay Aiken
Help thyself, and God will help thee.Jean de La Fontaine
For myself I am an optimist - - It does not seem to be much use being anything else.Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.Raymond Hull
There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.Proverbs 137 Bible
To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love in order that I may be loved back again, but for the creative joy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at least a little, by the outgoing of love, from enslavement to that most intolerable of master, myself.Bernard Iddings Bell
It is by no means self - Evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.Thomas Elliot
On reflection, one of the things I needed to learn was to allow myself to be loved.Isha McKenzie - Mavinga
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.Kahlil Gibran
It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one but the success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest better lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune...Samuel Smiles
Love is our response to our highest values. Love is self - Enjoyment. The noblest love is born out of admiration of another? s values.Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that, without very much bloodshed, it might be done.John Brown, last words in a written note given to his jailer, Dec. 2, 1859
A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.Jean - Paul Sartre, Upon refusing the Nobel Prize, Oct. 22, 1964
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
Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things First, a dissatisfaction with self - A felt void or need second, a decision to change - To fill the void or need and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change - The willful act of making the change Doing Something.Dr.
When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray
Habit, my friend, is practice long pursued, that at last becomes man himself.Evenus
A friend is a gift you give yourself.Robert Louis Stevenson
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.George Bernard Shaw
The surest way to be deceived is to think oneself cleverer than the others.La Rochefoucauld
