Self Quotes
One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.Wilfrid Sheed
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.Thomas Szasz
The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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
Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.Adele Brookman
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes. It may even lie on the surface; but we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions? especially selfish ones.Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Peace and Violence, sct. 2, in Index, no. 4 (London, 1973.
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.Samuel Johnson
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight and never stop fighting.E e cummings
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery; none but ourselves can free our minds.Bob Marley
Self awareness is NOT just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.Robert Anson Heinlein
Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.Michael Masser and Linda Creed
Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.John MacNaughton
And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that of yourself which you yet know not of.William Shakespeare
One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, Have a nice day.Peter Brodie
When you cannot get a compliment any other way pay yourself one.Mark Twain
He who makes a beast of himself relieves himself the pain of being a man.Hunter S. Thompson
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore and diverting himself and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary while the greater ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.Ashley Montagu
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
But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II Scene 6
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.Nelson Mandela
Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.Albert Camus
Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.John Sturart Mill, Defence of Hedonism
Self - Conceit may lead to self - Destruction.Aesop, The Frog and the Ox
Conquering others takes force, conquering yourself is true strength.Lao - Tzu
Self - Confidence is something caught and not taught. And, risk - Running and chance - Taking are the only ways to catch it.Arnold Schwarzenegger
Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self confidence young. Keep your hope young.Luella F. Phean
Authentic Christianity never destroys what is good. It makes it grow, transfigures it, and enriches itself from it.Claire Huchet Bishop
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
I think that their flight from and hatred of technology is self - Defeating. The Buddha rests quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer of the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha - - which is to demean oneself.Robert M. Pursig, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance".
First say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have to do.Epictetus
This above all TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE. And it must follow as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.William Shakespeare
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man who works beyond the surface of things, though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way for others and may make even his errors subservient to the cause of truth.Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry Into The Sublime and Beautiful
When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser.Whittaker Chambers
Learning makes a man fit company for himself.Thomas Fulle
Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Most maxim - Mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
