Self Quotes

We believe that an artist, in order to be true to himself and his work, must be a free man.
John F. Kennedy, Introducing Pablo Casals at a White House dinner, November 1961, at which he performed publicly for the first t
Mark twain - when you cannot get a compliment any other way...
Ralph waldo emerson - that which we persist in doing becomes easier,...
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
No important institution is ever merely what the law makes it. It accumulates about itself traditions, conventions, ways of behaviour, which are not less formidable in their influence.
Harold Laki
The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself... The act of voting is in itself the defining moment.
Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Democracy in America, 1992
The world itself is the will to power - And nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - And nothing else!
Friedrich Nietzsche, "The Will to Power".
Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously; and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.
Booth Tarkington
But respect yourself most of all.
Golden verses of the Pythagoreans
I count him braver who conquers his desires than him who conquers his enemies for the hardest victort is the victory over self.
Aristotle
Graham See what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles Or do you believe that people just get lucky Or, look at the question this way Is it possible that there are no coincidences.
Signs
Other people may not have high expectations of me, But I have high expectations for myself.
Shannon Mille
English prove - he that plants trees loves others besides himself....
Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
Lois McMaster Bujold, "A Civil Campaign", 1999
Once in a while you have to take a break and visit yourself.
Audrey Giorgi
Life itself is a quotation.
Jorge Luis Borges
Self - Trust, we know, is the first secret of success.
Lady Wilde
It is impossible to go through life without trust That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
Graham Greene
Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
Baltasar Gracian
Man is immortal therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea it can only find itself in changing forms.
Rabindranath Tagore
Give not over thy soul to sorrow and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.
Ecclesiastes
The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The best leader is the one who has the sense to surround himself with outstanding people and self - Restraint not to meddle with how they do their jobs.
Author Unknown
Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.
Michael Masser and Linda Creed
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
Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.
Alfred North Whitehead
Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.
William Shakespeare, "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 2 scene 1
There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
Hermann Hesse
Unless you are prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.
Orison Swett Marden
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
Sigmund Freud
What a searching preacher of self - Command is the varying phenomenon of health.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
Benjamin Spock
Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.
William Shakespeare
To be nobody - But - Yourself - - In a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - - Means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
E e cummings
To conquer others is to have power, to conquer yourself is to know the way.
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.
Shirley MacLaine
Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.
Juvenal
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.
Orison Swett Marden
A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
Samuel Johnson