Self Quotes
Self - Confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.Samuel Johnson
Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.John Sturart Mill, Defence of Hedonism
The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action. There is no fixed teaching. All I can provide is an appropriate medicine for a particular ailment.Bruce Lee, Quotation from the book: (The Art of Jeet Kune Do) by Bruce Lee
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.Lucille Ball
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
He who has injured thee was stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him if stronger, spare thyself.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.John Morley
Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.Jesse Stuart
If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself.John Milton
Instead of solid accomplishments, the man pursues pleasures and self - Gratification. He will never achieve anything so long as he is surrounded by dissipating temptations.I Ching
Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it.George Santayana, Winds of Doctrine (1913) ch. 4
I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After - Life spell, And by and by my Soul returned to me, And answered I Myself am Heaven and Hell.Omar Khayym
When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.Edith Hamilton
The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man and without this all other education is good for nothing.R. D. Hitchcock
Self - Love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing people a favor, and vise versa.Dr. Karl A. Menninge
Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - The world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.Henry Mille
Johnson himself turned out to be so many different characters he could have populated all of War and Peace and still had a few people left over.Herbert Mitgang
Creation is a better means of self - Expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.Vida D. Scudde
I demand more of myself than anyone else could ever expect.Julius Irving
However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society.Henry David Thoreau
If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.Richard Whately
The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself.James Thurbe
Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.George Orwell
Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables, Leaving her wedding - Garlands to decay - - Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses.Charles Kingsley
Occasionally, I have to think like myself to remember where I put something.Sue S. Taylo
Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous. But to an even greater degree than the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of carelessness, incapacity, or neglect.Anonymous
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.Saint Teresa of Avila
Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.Harry Emerson Fosdick
Of all the communities available to us there is not one I would want to devote myself to, except for the society of the true searchers, which has very few living members at any time.Albert Einstein
So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.William Shakespeare
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
No man is wise enough by himself.Titus Maccius Plautus, Miles Gloriosus
To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.Sylvia Plath, The Bell Ja
However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.Henry David Thoreau
Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.Eleanor Roosevelt
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. you yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.Buddha
