Self Quotes
An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.George Orwell
Love is our response to our highest values. Love is self - Enjoyment. The noblest love is born out of admiration of another? s values.Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.D. L. Moody
First make yourself unpopular, then people will take you seriously.Konrad Adenauer, 1876 - 1967
The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.... God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.Pierre Charron
Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self - Governing people.Woodrow Wilson
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...Trieu Thi Trinh
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.Robert Anson Heinlein
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.Quintilian
When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.Michel de Montaigne
When marrying, ask yourself this question Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age Everything else in marriage is transitory.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Of all the self - Fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.Marilyn Ferguson, The Aquarian Conspiracy, 1980
My schoolmates would make love to anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself.Emo Philips
For the sake of peace one may lie, but peace itself should never be a lie.The Talmud
Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.Karl Kraus
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim.Graham Greene, Heart of the Matter (1948)
Get into the habit of asking yourself if what you are doing can be handled by someone else.Author Unknown
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
Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.Robert Ingersoll
Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great Argument About it and about but evermore Came out by the same Door as in I went.Omar Khayym
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone.Samuel Johnson
No man is wise enough by himself.Titus Maccius Plautus, Miles Gloriosus
Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.Sir Walter Raleigh
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.Mark Twain
I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cut - Throat, competitive world in which I spent my life.Anthony Perkins
The worst of all deceptions is self - Deception.Saul Bellow
An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself.Albert Camus
You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide - Sounding Zeus puts a good mind.Homer, The Iliad
There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.John Dean
Give yourself something to work toward - - Constantly.Mary Kay Ash
The only difference between a madman and myself is that I am not mad.Salvidor Dali
Authentic Christianity never destroys what is good. It makes it grow, transfigures it, and enriches itself from it.Claire Huchet Bishop
About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.Michael Caine, www. aint - It - Cool - News. com
They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.Sir Thomas More, Utopia
I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself. My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.Lyman Beeche
