Self Quotes

Friendship with oneself is all - Important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.

Joel Hawes

Insist on yourself never imitate... Every great man is unique.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.

Adele Brookman

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.

Dr. Seuss

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

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

Agnes Repplie

Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavor. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

Albert Einstein

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

Lady Nancy Asto

If you have no confidence in yourself you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won before you have started.

Marcus Garvey

Resolve to be thyself and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

Matthew Arnold

Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Charles Dudley

It is the part of a wise man to keep himself to - Day for to - Morrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.

Miguel de Cervantes

Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.

Lou Dorfsman

Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the insidiousness of self - Praise, and all the ill - Desert of falsehood.

Tyron Edwards

If you had it all to do over, would you fall in love with yourself again?

Author Unknown

All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself, and never mind the rest.

Beatrix Potte

When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.

Oscar Wilde, Jack from The Importance of Being Earnest

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

J. K. Rowling

No man ever listened himself out of a job.

Calvin Coolidge

My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self - Defense.

Fred Allen

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Mark Twain

Self - Confidence is something caught and not taught. And, risk - Running and chance - Taking are the only ways to catch it.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Hope itself is a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.

Samuel Johnson

I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cut - Throat, competitive world in which I spent my life.

Anthony Perkins

No man is demolished but by himself.

Richard Bently

The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self - Seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.

Jacopo Sannazaro

The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.

Jane Wagne

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself.

John Harold

Christmas - - That magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance - - A day in which we think of everything we have ever loved.

Augusta E. Rundell

Responsiblity is a unique concept. It can only reside and inhere in a single individual. You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished. You may delegate it, but it is still with you. You may disclaim it, but you cannot divest yourself of it.

Admiral Hyman Rickove

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.

Bernard M. Baruch

Nothing feeds upon itself as liberality does.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince (1513)

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

Mark Twain

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

Benjamin Franklin