Self Quotes
What is the first business of one who practices philosophy To get rid of self - Conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.Epictetus
An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.Washington Irving
No man resolved to make the most of himself has time to waste on personal contention.Abraham Lincoln
Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.Eleanor Roosevelt
If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self - Direction, and for self - Initiated learning.Carl R. Rogers
The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
The honey from the flowers of the senses, Ever present within, ruler of time, Goes beyond fear. For this Self is Supreme.Maitri Upanishads
You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself.Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.Agnes Repplie
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.Amy Lowell
Glory built on selfish principles is shame and guilt.William Cowpe
I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.Johann Kaspar Lavate
The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self - Two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.Pope John Paul II
Enjoy things which are pleasant that is not the evil it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.Thomas Carlyle
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.Thomas Jefferson
If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished. Proposal to reform welfare programs.Richard Milhous Nixon
Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.Quintilian
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
Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, And know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, No coincidences, All events are blessings given to us to learn from.Elizabeth Kubler - Ross
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.H. L. Mencken
Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the insidiousness of self - Praise, and all the ill - Desert of falsehood.Tyron Edwards
Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.Michael Masser and Linda Creed
More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.Amy Grant
Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity.Charles Caleb Colton
Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.James Stephens
The mayor gave no other answer than that deep guttural grunt which is technically known in municipal interviews as refusing to commit oneself.Stephen Butler Leacock
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.
Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.John Sturart Mill, Defence of Hedonism
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
The secret source of humour itself is not joy, but sorrow. There is no humour in heaven.Mark Twain
For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life.Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Duties I
By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self - Denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?Jackie Mason
He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.Lord Herbert
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self - Seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.Bible, 1 Corinthians 13: 4 - 7
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.Sir Winston Churchill
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me.Simone de Beauvoi
God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.Albert Einstein
