Self Quotes

When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.

Charles De Gaulle

The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.

Rita Mae Brown, Venus Envy

I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better then the bad.

Seneca

If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.

Mark

I have a cat named Trash. In the current political climate it would seem that if I were trying to sell him at least to a Computer Scientist, I would not stress that he is gentle to humans and is self - Sufficient, living mostly on field mice. Rather, I would argue that he is object - Oriented.

Roger King

Never esteem anything as an advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self - Respect.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life, it is life itself.

Henry Havelock Ellis

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

Froude

As soon as we left the ground I knew I myself had to fly!

Amelia Earhart

An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

George Orwell

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

Benjamin Franklin

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Maitri Upanishads

Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure.

Joseph Sugarman

An educated man... is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.

Alan Simpson

Malice sucks up the greater part of her own venom, and poisons herself.

Michel de Montaigne

For myself I am an optimist - - It does not seem to be much use being anything else.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, Have a nice day.

Peter Brodie

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.

Lord Tennyson

Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide he exposes himself.

Jeanne Moreau

There will be a time when loud - Mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails.

Richard Rybolt

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.

Annie Lennox

Everyone is in business for himself, for he is selling his services, labor or ideas. Until one realizes that this is true he will not take conscious charge of his life and will always be looking outside himself for guidance.

Sidney Madwed

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - In firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Seneca

We can begin by noting that the body prefers to keep itself alive.

John Tierney, Esquire, August 1981

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

Luigi Pirandello

The more you talk to yourself, the more apt you are to lie.

Author Unknown

Everything is connected... no one thing can change by itself.

Paul Hawken

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

Edgar Allan Poe

When your work speaks for itself, dont interrupt.

Henry J. Kaise

The only place you will be accepted is the place you make for yourself.

Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992

A man who works beyond the surface of things, though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way for others and may make even his errors subservient to the cause of truth.

Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry Into The Sublime and Beautiful

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

Have no friends not equal to yourself.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

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

Live each season as it passes breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.

Henry David Thoreau

Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.

Cicero

No man ever listened himself out of a job.

Calvin Coolidge