Self Quotes

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self - Control. Against such things, there is no law.

The Apostle Paul (Saul of Tarsus), The Bible - Galations 5: 22 - 23 NIV

Education is life itself.

John Dewey

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the governing of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do, Ohara Publications

To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.

Sophy Burnham

Friendship with oneself is all - Important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Eleanor Roosevelt

If your house is on fire, warm yourself by it.

Danish prove

For myself I am an optimist - It does not seem to be much use being anything else.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Epictetus

Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being and only suffering teaches him this.

Simone Weil

What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.

Carlos Fuentes

It is the part of a wise man to keep himself to - Day for to - Morrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.

Miguel de Cervantes

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion... I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Do whatever comes your way as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people and other things that are interesting. Put a good deal of thought into happiness that you are able to give.

Roosevelt, Eleano

The sad news is, nobody owes you a career. Your career is literally your business. You own it as a sole proprietor. You have one employee: yourself. You need to accept ownership of your career, your skills and the timing of your moves.

Andrew Grove, Co - Founder and Chairman of Intel Corporation, Only the Paranoid Survive

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

Albert Einstein

If the thunder is not loud, the peasant forgets to cross himself.

Assyrian Prove

I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, December 2003

The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

John Ciardi

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.

John Milton

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

Edward Gibbon

There are two ways of meeting difficulties You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.

Phyllis Bottome

Of all the self - Fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.

Marilyn Ferguson, The Aquarian Conspiracy, 1980

Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A self - Balancing, 28 - Jointed adaptor - Based biped; an electro - Chemical reduction plant, integral with segregated stowages of special energy extracts in storage batteries, for subsequent actuation of thousands of hydraulic and pneumatic pumps, with motors attached; 62, 000 miles of capillaries....

R. Buckminster Fulle

Toleration is the greatest gift of mind, it requires that same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

Hellen Kelle

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself.

Michel de Montaigne

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?

Rabbi Hillel

The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.

Grayson Kirk

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

Confucius, Analects, XV. 24

A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.

Vince Lombardi

There is a certain impertinance in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.

Anatole France

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.

Mark Twain

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

Henry Ward Beeche

If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself.

Joseph Farrell

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.

Elisabeth Kubler - Ross