Self Quotes

Remember! Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - Then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.

Endicott Peabody

Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place.

Jennifer Aniston

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.

Ethel Barrymore

Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.

Jane Wagne

Habit, my friend, is practice long pursued, that at last becomes man himself.

Evenus

I have found it difficult to endear myself to those who could best positively affect the quality of my life.

Eli Khamarov

I have no help to send, therefore I must go myself.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

A good intention clothes itself with power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend is a second self.

Aristotle

Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.

Thomas Jefferson

This is the true joy in life - - Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one...

George Bernard Shaw

I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me instead of looking within myself to see what was there.

Belle Livingstone

Man is immortal therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea it can only find itself in changing forms.

Rabindranath Tagore

When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

Jalal ud - Din Rumi

Talent is like a faucet while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration - A hoax fabricated by poets for their self - Importance.

Jean Anouilh

He for himself weaves woe who weaves for others woe, and evil counsel on the counselor recoils.

Hesiod

Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self - Made laws.

Sir Richard Francis Burton

Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.

Lao Tzu

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

Michael Jordan

Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul.

Pythagorus

Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness: on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming at something else, they find happiness by the way.

John Stuart Mill

The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world.

Max Born

He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.

George Herbert

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

There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.

Alfred Adle

He is not laughed at who laughs at himself first.

Thomas Fulle

The very fact of its finding itself in agreement with other minds perturbs it, so that it hunts for points of divergence, feeling the urgent need to make it clear that at least it reached the same conclusions by a different route.

Herbert Butterfield

Be fully in the moment, open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.

Ernest Hemingway

Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain it only means that he is hopelessly self - Absorbed.

Leo C. Rosten

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

Anna Freud

If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

John Cage

She had learned the self - Deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and grasping, but her artifices could not always cover the nakedness of her need to excel.

Faith Sullivan, The Cape Ann, 1988

Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.

Agatha Christie

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.

Numbers 63 Bible Hebrew