Self Quotes
Think to yourself that every day is your last the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.Horace
A patient man is one who can put up with himself.Author Unknown
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.Woodrow Wilson
It is easy to bring others down to your level, Instead of bringing yourself up to their level, But it is never ever right.Unknown
No important institution is ever merely what the law makes it. It accumulates about itself traditions, conventions, ways of behaviour, which are not less formidable in their influence.Harold Laki
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.Jean Anouilh
Get into the habit of asking yourself if what you are doing can be handled by someone else.Author Unknown
When marrying, ask yourself this question Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age Everything else in marriage is transitory.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.Joseph Conrad
The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear.Felix Adle
To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Self - Esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.Nathaniel Branden
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.Niels Boh
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.H. L. Mencken
By constant self - Discipline and self - Control you can develop greatness of characte.Grenville Kleise
Glory built on selfish principles is shame and guilt.William Cowpe
Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.George Bernard Shaw
Develop interest in life as you see it in people, things, literature, music - The world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.Henry Mille
God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.Albert Einstein
The self - Explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.Elias Canetti
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.Buddha
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.Calvin Coolidge
Promote yourself, but do not demote another.Israel Salante
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.Alan Ashley - Pitt
That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.Henry Kissinge
What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.Carlos Fuentes
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.Norman Vincent Peale
I define comfort as self - Acceptance. When we finally learn that self - Care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.Jennifer Louden
The only thing to fear is fear itself.Franklin D. Roosevelt
Adventure is worthwhile in itself.Amelia Earhart
The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of benevolence and love to men.John Randolph
He is not laughed at who laughs at himself first.Thomas Fulle
There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living... a way in which life itself is sheer knowing.Laurens Van der Post, Venture to the Interior (1951)
There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.John Dean
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
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
