Self Quotes
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
The way to final freedom is within thy self.The Book of the Golden Precepts
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.E. B. White
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self - Restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.Theodore Roosevelt
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.Galileo Galilei
Self - Trust, we know, is the first secret of success.Lady Wilde
There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.Norman Douglas
Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.Thomas a Kempis
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.Anna Freud
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.George Bernard Shaw
Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self - Inflicted fate.Albert Einstein
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
Death in itself is nothing but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where.John Dryden
If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.Napolean Hill
My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self - Defense.Fred Allen
Where there are no tigers, a wildcat is very self - Important.Korean Prove
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia
Blessed are they who heal you of self - Despisings. Of all services which can be done to man, I know of none more precious.William Hale White
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong.Jane Austen
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.Alexander Hamilton
Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.Robert F. Bennett
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.Truman Capote
Develop interest in life as you see it in people, things, literature, music - The world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.Henry Mille
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.Thomas Szasz
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".
A man of understanding has lost nothing, if he has himself.Michel de Montaigne
A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate.La Rochefoucauld
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self - Gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.Helen Kelle
A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself.Unknown
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Epistle Dedicatory
Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.George Orwell
The self - Controlled soul, who moves amongst sense objects, free from either attachment or repulsion, he wins eternal Peace.Bhagavad Gita
As a matter of self - Preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.Diogenes
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering you own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - Every day begin the task anew.Saint Francis de Sales
He who conquers others is strong He who conquers himself is mighty.Lao Tzu
God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.Albert Einstein
