Self Quotes

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self - Knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse - As a man shoots himself.

H. L. Mencken

Have no friends not equal to yourself.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

I pride myself on the fact that my work has no socially redeeming value.

John Waters

The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man and without this all other education is good for nothing.

R. D. Hitchcock

How can we expect another to keep our secret, if we cannot keep it ourself.

La Rochefoucauld

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

Walt Whitman

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

Think highly of yourself, for the world takes you at your own estimate.

Author Unknown

If the programmer can simulate a construct faster then the compiler can implement the construct itself, then the compiler writer has blown it badly.

Guy L. Steele Jr., Tartan Laboratories

The world of the commodity is a world updside - Down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work.

Raoul Vaneigem

Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our lives.

Sri Madhava

Self - Pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.

John W. Gardne

People who imagine themselves to be self - Made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail.

Richard Russo

There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living... a way in which life itself is sheer knowing.

Laurens Van der Post, Venture to the Interior (1951)

Fear is nothing except a drain of energy and Not a power unto itself. Trust in yourself, For therein lies the true power.

Unknown

Self - Esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.

Nathaniel Branden

All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self - Evident.

Arthur Schopenhaue

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

Henry Ward Beeche

Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.

Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself".

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

H. L. Mencken

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

Anna Freud

Do not measure your loss by itself if you do, it will seem intolerable but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.

Saint Basil

Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.

Paul Tillich

I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.

Kahlil Gibran, The Broken Wings

Practice yourself what you preach.

Titus Maccius Plautus, Asinaria

Loneliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best thing you can do it to know yourself... know what you want.

Janet Fitch, "White Oleander".

The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

John Ciardi

There is more learning in the question itself than the answer.

Andrew Weremy

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth and truth rewarded me.

Simone de Beauvoi

Money is human happiness in the abstract he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

Arthur Schopenhaue

Egotist a person more interested in himself than in me.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

The academic mind can eat away the very basis of its own assurance... produce contortions when it tries to bend over backward... allow itself to be dismayed by the picture it has created of relentless historical process.

Herbert Butterfield

Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all, and if thee continually talks of thyself as being old, thee may perhaps bring on some of the infirmities of age. At least I would not risk it if I were thee.

Hannah Whitall Smith, 1907

Of all afflictions, the worst is self - Contempt.

Berthold Auerbach

The real tradegy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort - He never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.

Arnold Bennett

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Leo Tolstoy