Self Quotes
Ahhh. A man with a sharp wit. Someone ought to take it away from him before he cuts himself.Peter da Silva
There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.Niccolo Machiavelli
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.Sophy Burnham
Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.Joel Hawes
One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one allows himself to be tamed.Antoine de Saint - Exupery, The Little Prince
The root of fear is the death of yourself or someone you care about, but this will inevitably happen since we are only mortal, so why fea.Unknown
The sinners sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action.Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book nine
There are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, and the third is useless.Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.Plato, Dialogues, Theatetus
I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.Joseph Brodsky
Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.George Orwell
Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.Thomas Hobbes
The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless. The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.William Franklin Billy Graham
If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.D. L. Moody
Enjoy things which are pleasant; that is not the evil: it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.Thomas Carlyle
A man of understanding has lost nothing, if he has himself.Michel de Montaigne
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?Rabbi Hillel
Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things First, a dissatisfaction with self - A felt void or need second, a decision to change - To fill the void or need and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change - The willful act of making the change Doing Something.Dr.
It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one but the success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest better lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune...Samuel Smiles
Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.Josiah Royce
The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - Bread and circuses!Juvenal, Satires
Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.John Stuart Mill
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.Albert Einstein
Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
I have found it difficult to endear myself to those who could best positively affect the quality of my life.Eli Khamarov
Eliminating what is not wanted or needed is profitable in itself.Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.Simone de Beauvoi
Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.Jimmy Carte
It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to be kind to another, without helping himself.Bailey
Listen within yourself and look into the infinitude of Space and Time. There can be heard the songs of the Constellations, the voices of the Numbers, and the harmonies of the Spheres.The Divine Pymande
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.Nelson Mandela
Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 8
Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber.Ugo Betti
He is most cheated who cheats himself.Danish Prove
Self - Esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self - Esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.Bette Midle
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself lying to others is relatively an exception.Hietzsche
Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.Samuel Adams
