Self Quotes
Promote yourself, but do not demote another.Israel Salante
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.Thomas Jefferson
Greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.Graham Greene, The Ministry of Fea
Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say to myself, Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.Lillian
Self - Loving is not so vile a sin, my liege, as self - Neglecting.William Shakespeare
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, From Brewster, Memoirs of Newton (1855)
Do definite good first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.John Lancaster Spalding
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone.Samuel Johnson
I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles.Anais Nin
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man - Given. Be grateful. Conceit is self - Given. Be careful.John Wooden
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.Galileo Galilei
People who are tremendously concerned about their identification, their individuality, their self - Expression, or their sense of humor, always seem to be missing the very things they pursue.Walter Lippmann
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
Always be a first - Rate version of yourself, instead of a second - Rate version of someone else.Judy Garland
Occasionally, I have to think like myself to remember where I put something.Sue S. Taylo
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.Arnold Toynbee
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
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.Epictetus
Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.Lois McMaster Bujold, "A Civil Campaign", 1999
You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it. Better keep yourself clean and bright you are the window through which you must see the world.Sir Walter Besant
To be nobody - But - Yourself - - In a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - - Means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.E e cummings
The giving of love is an education in itself.Roosevelt, Eleano
Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.Josiah Royce
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself... True happiness is born of self - Reliance.The laws of Manu
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery; none but ourselves can free our minds.Bob Marley
The vain man is generally a doubter. It is Newton who sees himself as child on the sea shore, and his discoveries in the colored shell.Willmott
Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself.Frank Crane
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
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
My main hope for myself is to be where I am.Woody Harrelson
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
Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.Samuel Johnson
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - - And you are the easiest person to fool.Richard Phillips Feynman
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.Anonymous
The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.Shirley MacLaine
Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
