Self Quotes

No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.

Saint John Chrysostom, Letter to Olympia

The way to final freedom is within thy self.

The Book of the Golden Precepts

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - - Great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

Jim Rohn

The next thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

David Viscott

We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and you must win.

Edward Gibbon

I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.

Sylvia Plath

The way to develop self - Confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

William Jennings Bryan

One must really have suffered oneself to help others.

Mother Theresa

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

Gustave Flaubert

Insist on yourself; never imitate... Every great man is unique.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no limit to stupidity. Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity.

Gene Wolfe

Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.

Samuel Johnson

Preparation is not the enemy of success, but a dear friend. Be good to yourself and the favor will return.

Samuel Cunningham

Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors, concern for the great unsolved problems of the organization of labor and the distribution of goods - - In order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

Albert Einstein

Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.

Epictetus

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

Publilius Syrus

You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice.

Ursula Le Guin

No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of ther beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems.

Anne Rice, "Blood and Gold".

If you have no confidence in yourself you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won before you have started.

Marcus Garvey

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Katherine Mansfield

The wise should surrender speech in mind, mind in the knowing self, the knowing self in the Spirit of the universe, and the Spirit of the universe in the Spirit of peace.

Maitri Upanishads

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering you own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - Every day begin the task anew.

Saint Francis de Sales

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Simone de Beauvoi

If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath - Breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.

Thomas De Quincey, Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts - 1827

Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.

Andre Gide

Insist on yourself never imitate... Every great man is unique.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) Valley of Fear, 1915

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

Saint Teresa of Avila

Formerly a public man needed a private secretary for a barrier between himself and the public. Nowadays he has a press secretary to keep him properly in the public eye.

Daniel J. Boorstin

I have just returned from Boston. It is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there.

Fred Allen, in a letter to Groucho Marx, 1953

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

Heraclitus

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self - Distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.

Amos Bronson Alcott

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

To be in love Is to touch with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.

Gwendolyn Brooks

Know, first, who you are and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus