Self Quotes
Get into the habit of asking yourself if what you are doing can be handled by someone else.Author Unknown
Think and feel yourself there! To achieve any aim in life, you need to project the end - Result. Think of the elation, the satisfaction, the joy! Carrying the ecstatic feeling will bring the desired goal into view.Grace Speare
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
When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.W. H. Auden
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.Leo Tolstoy
A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.Voltaire
Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
Sometimes when I look at my children I say to myself, Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.Lillian Carter, mother of Jimmy and Billy
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.Henry Kissinge
If the thunder is not loud, the peasant forgets to cross himself.Assyrian Prove
To establish oneself in the world, one has to do all one can to appear established.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self - Interest, you can have practically anything you go after.Napoleon Hill
Authentic Christianity never destroys what is good. It makes it grow, transfigures it, and enriches itself from it.Claire Huchet Bishop
I shall despair. There is no creature loves me; And if I die no soul will pity me: And wherefore should they, since that I myself Find in myself no pity to myself?William Shakespeare, Richard III, V. iii
Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.G. C. Lichtenberg
It could be said that the AIDS pandemic is a classic own - Goal scored by the human race against itself.Anne
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.Eleanor Roosevelt
Experience does not ever err. It is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your experiments.Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks
If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death.Sigmund Freud, his essay on war & death
You try to give away what you want yourself.Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
No man is wise enough by himself.Titus Maccius Plautus, Miles Gloriosus
Life itself is neither good nor evil, but only a place for good and evil.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
What is life It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.Crowfoot
People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - Are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a have type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a have not type of self.Eric Hoffe
A great leader never sets himself above his followers except in carrying responsibilities.Jules Ormont
If you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, then make that change.Michael Jackson, Man In The Mirro
The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes.Aubrey Menen
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.George Bernard Shaw
Pride, like laudanun and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.Frederick Saunders
There is no greater joy than of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.Henri Bergson
America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant.Garry Trudeau
When your work speaks for itself, dont interrupt.Henry J. Kaise
If you turn your back on these people, you yourself are an animal. You may be a well - Dressed animal, but you are nevertheless an animal.Edward Irving Koch
You have to expect things of yourself before you do them.Michael Jordan
Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.Desiderius Erasmus
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
