Self Quotes
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.Epictetus
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
Of course life is bizarre, the more bizarre it gets, the more interesting it is. The only way to approach it is to make yourself some popcorn and enjoy the show.David Gerrold
I have found it difficult to endear myself to those who could best positively affect the quality of my life.Eli Khamarov
The world of the commodity is a world updside - Down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work.Raoul Vaneigem
The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.Charles Peguy
Graham See what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles Or do you believe that people just get lucky Or, look at the question this way Is it possible that there are no coincidences.Signs
Honesty rare as a man without self - Pity, kinders as large and plain as a prairie wind.Stephen Vincent Benet
There has already been published by the bucketfuls such brazen lies and utter fictions about me that I would long since have gone to my grave if I had let myself pay attention to that.Albert Einstein
A man is as old as he feels himself to be.English Prove
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.Og Mandino
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.Eleanor Roosevelt
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.Marcus Aurelius
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self - Complacent is erroneous - - On the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. It is failure that makes people bitter and cruel.W. Somerset Maugham
Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.John Updike
A good intention clothes itself with power.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - - And you are the easiest person to fool.Richard Phillips Feynman
As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.Maitri Upanishads
The difficult child is the child who is unhappy. He is at war with himself; and in consequence, he is at war with the world.A. S. Neill, Summerhill
I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.Lord Tennyson
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self - Evident.Arthur Schopenhaue
Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.Pablo Picasso
Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.Thomas a Kempis
Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers Love, nightmare - Like, lies heavy on my chest, And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers.William S. Gilbert
Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.Brian Aldiss
One must not be mean with the affections what is spent of the fund is renewed in the spending itself.Sigmund Freud
It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one but the success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest better lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune...Samuel Smiles
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim.Graham Greene, Heart of the Matter (1948)
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ
Learning makes a man fit company for himself.Thomas Fulle
People who are tremendously concerned about their identification, their individuality, their self - Expression, or their sense of humor, always seem to be missing the very things they pursue.Walter Lippmann
Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary monetary matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.William Cobbett
Experience is an asset of which no worker can be cheated, no matter how selfish or greedy his immediate employer may be.Napolean Hill
Ahhh. A man with a sharp wit. Someone ought to take it away from him before he cuts himself.Peter da Silva
