Self Quotes

As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.

Adelle Davis

But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self - Righteousness - - Each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked - - Each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.

Herbert Butterfield

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Hunter S. Thompson

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

Michael Jordan

Every job is a self - Portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence.

Commitment To Excellence

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

Charles Dickens

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Thomas Jefferson

You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.

Charles Austin Beard, historian

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene 3

Somehow he Tim gets thoughtful sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant for them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see.

Charles Dickens

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.

Ann Landers

An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself.

Albert Camus

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Mary Cholmondeley

When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there... now instead of then.

Blaise Pascal

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

Hippocrates, Regimen

Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - And thus make yourself indispensable.

Andre Gide

It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.

Betty Friedan

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.

Mark Twain

I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.

Susan B. Anthony

The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal - - Or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.

Elizabeth Peters

I demand more of myself than anyone else could ever expect.

Julius Irving

Knowing others is intelligence knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao Tzu

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

Quintilian

Live each season as it passes breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.

Henry David Thoreau

If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.

Marvin Gaye

One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self - Criticism of a tired mind is suicide.

Charles Horton Cooley

The man who comes with a tale about others has himself an ax to grind.

Chinese prove

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself.

Joseph Farrell

Blessed are they who heal you of self - Despisings. Of all services which can be done to man, I know of none more precious.

William Hale White

What ought a man to be Well, my short answer is himself.

Henrik Ibsen

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

To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.

Sylvia Plath, The Bell Ja

As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self take the shape Of every creature in whom he is present.

Maitri Upanishads

Fear is nothing except a drain of energy and Not a power unto itself. Trust in yourself, For therein lies the true power.

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