Self Quotes

Unless you are prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.

Orison Swett Marden

The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be.... Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.

Wilfred Peterson, This Week (Oct. 1, 1961)

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.

Pauline Kael

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Oscar Wilde

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Talent is like a faucet while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration - A hoax fabricated by poets for their self - Importance.

Jean Anouilh

Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood.

Louise Beal

I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.

Thomas Szasz, "The Second Sin".

Happiness is a sunbeam, Which may pass through a thousand bosoms Without losing a particle of its original ray Nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, Like the converged light on a mirror, It reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Jane Porte

This above all to thine own self be true.

William Shakespeare

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

Buddha

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

John Dean

Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself.

American Indian Prove

Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.

Welsh Prove

One must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness. To seek treasures where there is only trash... Too much sanity may be madness, and maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Miguel De Cervantes, Don Quixote de la Mancha

No important institution is ever merely what the law makes it. It accumulates about itself traditions, conventions, ways of behaviour, which are not less formidable in their influence.

Harold Laki

Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.

Baltasar Gracian

Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.

Ecclesiastes

Above all be true to yourself, and if you can not put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.

Hardy D. Jackson

He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying.

Michel de Montaigne

There are three classes of intellects one which comprehends by itself another which appreciates what others comprehend and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others the first is the most excellent, the second is good, and the third is useless.

Niccolo Machiavelli

The way to final freedom is within thy self.

The Book of the Golden Precepts

Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.

Martin Luther King Jr.

A man without justice is a beast, and a man who would make himself a beast forgets the pain of being a man.

Timothy Leary

I was never less alone than while by myself.

Edward Lawrence Gibson

But I have always liked bird dogs better than kennel - Fed dogs myself - - You know, one that will get out and hunt for food rather than sit on his fanny and yell.

Charles E. Wilson

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

Jules Ormont

So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 4 scene 5

He who despises himself esteems himself as a self - Despiser.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The very fact of its finding itself in agreement with other minds perturbs it, so that it hunts for points of divergence, feeling the urgent need to make it clear that at least it reached the same conclusions by a different route.

Herbert Butterfield

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

Thamas De Quincey

I said to myself that growing up really means slowing down.

Siri Hustvedt, What I Loved, pg. 336

Affirmations are like prescriptions for certain aspects of yourself you want to change.

Jerry Frankhause

Magic is believing in yourself. If you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Foka Gomez