Self Quotes
It is regrettable that, among the Rights of Man, the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten.Charles Baudelaire
If you want your eggs hatched, sit on them yourself.Haitian Prove
Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.Joseph Addison
The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.John W. Gardne
However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.Henry David Thoreau
Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.James Stephens
Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.Alice James
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress but I repeat myself.Mark Twain
As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.Adelle Davis
You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself.Harvey Firestone
Never violate the sacredness of your individual self - Respect.Theodore Parke
No man resolved to make the most of himself has time to waste on personal contention.Abraham Lincoln
It is against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self - Critical?Alan Perlis
Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.Johann von Goethe
It is the action of an uninstructed person to reproach others for his own misfortune; of one entering instruction, to reproach himself; and one perfectly instructed, to reproach neither others nor himself.Epictetus, Enchiridion
I have great faith in fools; self - Confidence, my friends call it.Edgar Allan Poe
Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say to myself, Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.Lillian
Death in itself is nothing but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where.John Dryden
If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.Aldous Huxley
The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.Thomas a Kempis
Most powerful is he who has himself in his power.Seneca
The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self - Serving wealth.Franklin D. Roosevelt
Nature is wont to hide herself.Heraclitus, On the Universe
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.Franz Kafka
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself First, what could I do Second, what could I read And third, who could I ask.Jim Rohn
A pessimist thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.George Bernard Shaw
There is no greater joy than of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.Henri Bergson
The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear minded and self - Controlled so that you can pray. Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.1 Peter 47 - 8 Bible
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.Sir Richard F. Burton
Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.Chinese Prove
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.Henry Ward Beeche
For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life.Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Duties I
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 essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter.Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.W. H. Auden
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, September 2002
