Self Quotes

You cannot stand anywhere in the universe that is outside of yourself.

Deepak Chopra

A crisis does not always appear to a policymaker as a series of dramatic events. Usually it imposes itself as an exhausting agenda of petty chores demanding both concentration and endurance.

Henry Kissinger, Years of Upheaval

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

What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble.

Benjamin Spock

Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.

John MacNaughton

But he that is the greatest among you shall be your servant. And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abused and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.

Matthew 2311, 12 Bible

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

Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia

If you sit down at set of sun And count the acts that you have done, And counting find One self - Denying deed, one word That eased the heart of him who heard One glance most kind That fell like sunshine where it went - Then you may count that day well spent.

George Eliot

The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

Epictetus

No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

Seneca

We must not just be in the world and above the world, but also of the world. To love it for what it is... is the only task. Avoid it and you are lost. Loose yourself in it, and you are free.

Henry Miller, in a letter to Lawrence Durrell

Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use.

Peter Mere Latham

Any ordinary man can... surround himself with two thousand books... and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

Augustine Birrell

Under peaceful conditions the militant man attacks himself.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Boldness in itself is genius.

L. Ron Hubbard

Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.

Thomas Fulle

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

Napolean Hill

In order to preserve your self - Respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.

Robert Byrne

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self - Gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Helen Kelle

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

Charles Dudley

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

Hippocrates, Regimen

Self - Conceit may lead to self - Destruction.

Aesop, The Frog and the Ox

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.

Sun - Tzu

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - - Nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

Richard Milhous Nixon

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

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

Lucille Ball

Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.

Thomas Jefferson

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth and truth rewarded me.

Simone de Beauvoi

If you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, then make that change.

Michael Jackson, Man In The Mirro

What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Shun praise. Praise leads to self - Delusion. Thy body is not Self, thyself is in itself without a body, and either praise or blame affects it not.

H Hahn Blavatsky

Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.

John W. Gardne

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Norman Vincent Peale

Eliminating what is not wanted or needed is profitable in itself.

Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

Samuel Smiles

A great leader never sets himself above his followers except in carrying responsibilities.

Jules Ormont