Self Quotes

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

Rebecca West

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

Siri Hustvedt, What I Loved, pg. 336

The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.

Blaine Lee

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Albert Einstein

Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self - Esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.

Fritz Perls

The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Epictetus

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

Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self - Made laws.

Sir Richard Francis Burton

The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.

Garth Brooks, Country Music

Meditation... disolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass.

Tom Robbins

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

Joseph Baretti

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

William Shenstone

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

If an artist is not able to commit himself totally to his art, how can he expect the world to do so.

Unknown

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

He who demands mercy and shows none burns the bridges over which he himself must later pass.

Thomas Adams

To handle yourself, use your head To handle others, use your heart.

Roosevelt, Eleano

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 Prince

Book dedication To myself, without whose inspired and tireless efforts this book would not have been possible.

Al Jaffee

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.

John Jay Chapman

A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself.

Unknown

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitalitythe supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

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

Hardy D. Jackson

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

To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.

Hermann Hesse

Each bird loves to hear himself sing.

Arapaho Prove

If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.

D. L. Moody

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

Benjamin Franklin

It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in the way of treating people with kindness and decency. The point is no that they will then be nice to you. It is that you will feel better about yourself.

Robert Solow

If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.

Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus

Let us forever forget that every station in life is necessarily that each deserves our respect; that not the station itself; but the worthy fulfillment of its duties does honor the man.

Mary Lyon

Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.

Mortimer Adle

A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.

Peter McArthu

Each painting has its own way of evolving... When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

William Baziotes

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.

Cynthia Heimel

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self - Same well from which your laughter rises was often - Times filled with your tears.

Rene Descartes