Self Quotes

But respect yourself most of all.

Golden verses of the Pythagoreans

I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.

Kahlil Gibran, The Broken Wings

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.

W. Somerset Maugham

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

Franz Kafka

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Albert Camus

When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.

Albert Einstein, The World as I See It.

Experience does not ever err. It is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your experiments.

Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.

Czech Prove

Do not let people put you down. Believe in yourself and stand for yourself and trust yourself.

Jacob Neusne

Keep thy religion to thyself.

George Carlin

Neither a borrower nor a lender be For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.

William Shakespeare

Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.

Alexis Carrel

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

History repeats itself historians repeat each other.

Philip Guedalla

The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others.

Hazlitt

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

James Arthur Baldwin

He who is sorrowful can force himself to smile, but he who is glad cannot weep.

Selma Lagerloef

Popularity comes from allowing yourself to be bored by people while pretending to enjoy it.

Karol Newlin

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

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction.

Leo Tolstoy

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

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.

Henry Mille

This is the true joy in life - - Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one...

George Bernard Shaw

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Hunter S. Thompson

Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou are not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will.

Thomas a Kempis

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Virginia Woolf

Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.

Quintilian

Many politicians lay it down as a self - Evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Lord Macaulay

Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.

Rita Mae Brown

Self - Respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

Rabbi Abraham Heschel

Never expose yourself unnecessarily to danger a miracle may not save you... and if it does, it will be deducted from your share of luck or merit.

The Talmud

That we can comprehend the little we know already is mindboggling in itself.

Tom Gates

Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.

Baltasar Gracian

A competent and self - Confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

Robert Anson Heinlein

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Helena Rubinstein

The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents him; it is the lapidary who gives value to the diamond which the peasant has dug up without knowing its value.

Abbe Guillaume Raynal