Self Quotes

The whole object of comedy is to be yourself and the closer you get to that, the funnier you will be.

Jerry Seinfeld

A competent and self - Confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

Robert Anson Heinlein

An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself.

Albert Camus

The sad news is, nobody owes you a career. Your career is literally your business. You own it as a sole proprietor. You have one employee: yourself. You need to accept ownership of your career, your skills and the timing of your moves.

Andrew Grove, Co - Founder and Chairman of Intel Corporation, Only the Paranoid Survive

I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.

Susan B. Anthony

Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

Mark Twain

Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.

Johann von Goethe

There is nothing to fear but fear itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.

Rita Mae Brown

Keep thy religion to thyself.

George Carlin

Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? - A hoax fabricated by poets for their self - Importance.

Jean Anouilh

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

Arthur Mille

That we can comprehend the little we know already is mindboggling in itself.

Tom Gates

If a child lives with approval, he learns to live with himself.

Dorothy Law Nolte

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

Thomas Jefferson

I have great faith in fools; self - Confidence, my friends call it.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Booth Tarkington

A friend is a second self.

Aristotle

Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for beingWhy thou wert there, O rival of the roseI never sought to ask, I never knewBut, in my simple ignorance supposeThe selfsame power that brought me there brought you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.

Oscar Wilde

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

Without absolutes revealed from without by God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas about manners, justice and right and wrong, issuing from a multitude of self - Opinionated thinkers.

John Owen

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.

Alfred Adle

When you cannot get a compliment any other way pay yourself one.

Mark Twain

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

Charles Peguy

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

Marcus Aurelius

In jealousy there is more of self - Love, than of love to another.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

James Arthur Baldwin

The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice; rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.

Thomas a Kempis

The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.

Publilius Syrus

to be yourself in a world that is doing its best, day and night to make you like everybody else - - Is to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight.

E. e. cummings

To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.

Aaron Copland

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations

You cannot dream yourself into a character you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

A bachelor is a selfish, undeserving guy who has cheated some woman out of a divorce.

Don Quinn

What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

Confucius