Self Quotes
A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.Alec Waugh
What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble.Benjamin Spock
A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction.Leo Tolstoy
I have great faith in fools; self - Confidence, my friends call it.Edgar Allan Poe
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.Henry Ward Beeche
Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and archive mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement, against that past.George Steine
We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands upon himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.Jose Ortega y Gasset
My schoolmates would make love to anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself.Emo Philips
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.Henry Van Dyke
Building castles in the air, and making yourself a laughing - Stock.Miguel de Cervantes
The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.John W. Gardne
I have never seen a wild thing feel sorry for itself. A little bird will fall dead, frozen from a bough, without ever having felt sorry for itself.D. H. Lawrence
Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place.Jennifer Aniston
Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.Johann von Goethe
The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.W. S. Maugham, Of Human Bondage
For myself I am an optimist - - It does not seem to be much use being anything else.Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
I give myself, sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.Mary Montagu
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
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
When the reviews are bad, I tell myself that they can join me as I cry all the way to the bank.Liberace
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.Jim Morrison
Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.Silius Italicus
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
The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.Dietrich Bonhoeffe
What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.Confucius
He that plants trees loves others beside himself.Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
Few are agreeable in conversation, because each thinks of what he intends to say than of what others are saying, and listens no more when he himself has a chance to speak.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.Saint Augustine
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
If I ever reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there first, to meet some I had not thought to see there second, to miss some I had expected to see there and third, the greatest wonder of all, to find myself there.John Newton
I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself.Terence, Adelphoe
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving.Albert Einstein
Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self confidence young. Keep your hope young.Luella F. Phean
Forgive many things in others nothing in yourself.Ausonius
Self awareness is NOT just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.Robert Anson Heinlein
He who ignores discipline despises himself, but whoever heeds correction gains understanding.Proverbs 1532 Bible
