Self Quotes

The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself... The act of voting is in itself the defining moment.

Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Democracy in America, 1992

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Conquering others takes force, conquering yourself is true strength.

Lao - Tzu

The secret source of humour itself is not joy, but sorrow. There is no humour in heaven.

Mark Twain

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

Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be a blessing or a heavy burden?

Alfred A. Montapert

The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great man were made by his fortune, his enemies by himself, and revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude.

C. C. Colton

The self is not something ready - Made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

John Dewey

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A bird will fall frozen dead from the bow of a ship without ever having felt sorry for itself.

D. H. Lawerence

History repeats itself historians repeat each other.

Philip Guedalla

No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside yourself.

Jacob Bigelow

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

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - - For no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self - Love.

William Hazlitt

I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better then the bad.

Seneca

A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self - Control is the rule.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

Kahlil Gibran

There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases; it is the easiest thing of all to deceive one? s self.

Demosthenes, Olynthiac

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

Albert Schweitze

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

Ben Franklin

There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.

Proverbs 137 Bible

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

Phyllis Battone

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely for science is but one.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.

William S. Burroughs

For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.

Lyste

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out.

Judith Rossne

I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.

Samuel Johnson

The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.

Robyn Davidson

I bet the sparrow looks at the parrot and thinks, yes, you can talk, but LISTEN TO YOURSELF.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure.

Joseph Sugarman

Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.

John MacNaughton

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

Karen Horney

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Mark Twain

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

Cicero, De Amicitia

Many politicians lay it down as a self - Evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Lord Macaulay

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

Samuel Butle