Self Quotes
Vigny, more secretAs if in his tower of ivory, retired before noon. N. B. Vigny refers to Comte de Vigny, who locked himself in an ivory tower to work without the influences of man and desire.Charles Augustin Sainte - Beauve
Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being.Blaise Pascal, Pensees(II, 72)
The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless. The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.William Franklin Billy Graham
I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - If I can remember any of the damn things.Dorothy Parke
I have great faith in fools - - Self confidence my friends call it.Edgar Allan Poe
If a child lives with approval, he learns to live with himself.Dorothy Law Nolte
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.Michel de Montaigne
No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead. Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study, and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think.John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859
This is the true joy in life - - Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one...George Bernard Shaw
Instead of solid accomplishments, the man pursues pleasures and self - Gratification. He will never achieve anything so long as he is surrounded by dissipating temptations.I Ching
Whoever despises himself still respects himself as one who despises.Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil aphorism 78
Malice sucks up the greater part of her own venom, and poisons herself.Michel de Montaigne
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
Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.Jesse Stuart
Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self - Solicitude is the enemy of well - Being.John Updike
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.Thomas Carruthers
Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell.John Milton, Paradise Lost
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.Johann von Goethe
Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.Nick Richardson
If you seek yourself,... you rob the lens of its transparency.... You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means.Dag Hammarskjld
You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice.Ursula Le Guin
Never esteem anything as an advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self - Respect.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
The salary of the chief executive of the large corporations is not an award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm gesture by the individual to himself.John Kenneth Galbraith
He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self - Love seems so often unrequited.Anthony Powell
If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self - Respect will you compel others to respect you.Fyodor Dostoevsky
Watch for good times to retreat into yourself. Frequently meditate on how good God is to you.Thomas a Kempis, quoted in the LDS Church News 8/20/2005
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.Anonymous
It took me twenty years of studied self - Restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public.George Bernard Shaw
I speak BASIC to clients, 1 - 2 - 3 to management, and mumble to myself.Anon.
There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.Alfred Adle
No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.A. A. Milne
If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self - Direction, and for self - Initiated learning.Carl R. Rogers
Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.Johann von Goethe
Rather do what is nothing in the purpose than to be idle, that the devil may find thee doing. The bird that sits is easily shot when the fliers escape the fowler. Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all the virtues, and is the self - Made sepulcher of a living man.Francis Quarles
Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings essential to success.John McDonald
To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.George Santayana
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.Dr. Seuss
