Self Quotes

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.

Charles De Gaulle

A friend is somebody you want to be around when you feel like being by yourself.

Barbara Burrow

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

What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

Confucius

All of the significant battles are waged within the self.

Sheldon Kopp

You can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search.

Maxwell Maltz

My business is not to remake myself, But make the absolute best of what God made.

Robert Browning

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Thomas Jefferson

In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark.

Nicholson Bake

There is a certain impertinance in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.

Anatole France

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

Abraham Lincoln

Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself.

Bertrand Russell

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

Lady Wilde

Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self - Solicitude is the enemy of well - Being.

John Updike

If you sit down at set of sun And count the acts that you have done, And counting find One self - Denying deed, one word That eased the heart of him who heard One glance most kind That fell like sunshine where it went - Then you may count that day well spent.

George Eliot

What is life It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

Crowfoot

It is noble to teach oneself, but still nobler to teach others - - And less trouble. - Speech, 1906.

Mark Twain

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

Aldous Huxley

Forgive thyself little, and others much.

Leighton

The greatist thing in the world is for a man to know how to be himself.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Before a man can wake up and find himself famous he has to wake up and find himself.

Author Unknown

When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself.

Luigi Pirandello

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

Seneca

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

No good poem, however confessional is may be, is just a self - Expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?

Robert Cecil Day Lewis

He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

Thomas Paine

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia

Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 3

The man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.

Charles Schwa

When you meet the president, you ask yourself, How did it ever occur to anybody that he should be governor much less president.

Henry Kissinge

All the blessings which you pray to obtain hereafter could be yours today, if you did not deny them to yourself.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations? Book Twelve

A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more. Nobody is going to win a 5, 000 meter race after running an easy 2 miles. Not with me. If I lose forcing the pace all the way, well, at least I can live with myself.

Steve Prefontaine

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.

Benjamin Spock

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

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.

Mark Caine

I do not know what I may appear to the world but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Isaac Newton