Self Quotes

Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.

Buddha

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It was when Lucifer first congratulated himself upon his angelic behavior that he became the tool of evil.

Dag Hammarskjld

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

Jennifer Aniston

Increase your personal power through positive and powerful communication. Recognize and eliminate negative self talk.

Caterina Rando

Whoever is open, loyal, true of humane and affable demeanour honourable himself, and in his judgement of others faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man.... such a man is a true gentleman.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let us forever forget that every station in life is necessarily that each deserves our respect; that not the station itself; but the worthy fulfillment of its duties does honor the man.

Mary Lyon

The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.

Seneca

Any effort that has self - Glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.

Robert M. Pirsig

I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.

Cicero

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self - Control. Against such things, there is no law.

The Apostle Paul (Saul of Tarsus), The Bible - Galations 5: 22 - 23 NIV

Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.

John W. Gardne

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.

Andrew Carnegie

I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all.

Jules Renard

When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.

Charles De Gaulle

Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.

Dame Edna Everage, In a television interview with Joan Rivers

I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Economy.

Mediocrity does not see higher than itself. But talent instantly recognizes the genius.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.

Whitney Young

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

Sir Winston Churchill

That you may retain your self - Respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

William J. H. Boetcke

If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.

Sebastien - Roch Nicolas

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

I have found a desire within myself that no experience in this world can satisfy; the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

C. S. Lewis

He is most cheated who cheats himself.

Danish Prove

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

Self - Trust, we know, is the first secret of success.

Lady Wilde

The academic mind can eat away the very basis of its own assurance... produce contortions when it tries to bend over backward... allow itself to be dismayed by the picture it has created of relentless historical process.

Herbert Butterfield

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self - Confidence.

Robert Frost

There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulities or you alter yourself to meet them.

Phyllis Battone

Self - Esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.

Nathaniel Branden

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he who thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

C. C. Colton

The tragic mistake of so many in the environmentalist movement is the belief that the rest of the world can afford to hold itself to our expensive green standards.

Jonathan Berry

We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - Your ideal of what you long to attain - The ideal of health, efficiency, success.

Orison Swett Marden

A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.

Chinua Achebe

Fortunately psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

Karen Horney