Self Quotes

Epictetus - what is the first business of one who practices...
Of all the self - Fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.
Marilyn Ferguson, The Aquarian Conspiracy, 1980
If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
Napolean Hill
What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
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
Robert louis stevenson - a friend is a gift you give yourself....
It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.
Mary Daly
Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
James A. Garfield
African prove - god conceals himself from the mind of man, but...
He had a heart that could have held the empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar.
Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera
The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others, and no one thinks about reforming himself.
Peter Alcantara
First mend yourself, and then mend others.
Jewish Prove
I knew a man who gave up smoking, drinking, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.
Johnny Carson, people magazine special issue
The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.
Jane Wyman
For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavouring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.
George Orwell
Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
G. C. Lichtenberg
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self - Confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
Samuel Johnson
Who to himself is law, no law doth need.
Arthur Chapman
Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee.
Thomas Fulle
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
Paul Tillich
No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me.
Simone de Beauvoi
Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.
Johann Georg von Zimmermann
What you keep for yourself, you lose. What you give away, you keep forever.
Axel Monthe
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving.
Albert Einstein
Maturity beings to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.
John MacNaughton
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
Make yourself familiar with the angels, and behold them frequently in spirit for without being seen, they are present with you.
Saint Francis de Sales
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
Baltasar Gracian
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self - Restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Theodore Roosevelt
The planting of trees is the least self - Centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.
Thornton
The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking - Glass.
Boileau
Promote yourself, but do not demote another.
Israel Salante
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self - Respect.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
Dag Hammarskjld
A fanatic is one compelled to action by the need to find a strong meaning in life. The fanatic determines for himself what role he is to play in life, and his intense devotion to a cause is the means.
Eugene E. Brussell