Self Quotes

Through the doors of perception Down the corridors of uncertainty Into the room of self doubt Opens the window of opportunity.

Unknown

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

Always be a first - Rate version of yourself, instead of a second - Rate version of somebody else.

Judy Garland

The only thing to fear is fear itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

Henry David Thoreau

The only place you will be accepted is the place you make for yourself.

Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992

In history as in life it is success that counts. Start a political upheaval and let yourself be caught, and you will hang as a traitor. But place yourself at the head of a rebellion and gain your point, and all future generations will worship you as the Father of their Country.

Hendrik W. Van Loon

I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

Walt Whitman

Without absolutes revealed from without by God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas about manners, justice and right and wrong, issuing from a multitude of self - Opinionated thinkers.

John Owen

He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.

Karl Kraus

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

Mark Twain

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery; none but ourselves can free our minds.

Bob Marley

Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - They bear no fruit.

Francis Marion

If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself.

John Milton

The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for beingWhy thou wert there, O rival of the roseI never sought to ask, I never knewBut, in my simple ignorance supposeThe selfsame power that brought me there brought you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.

Chinese Prove

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

Baltasar Gracian

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a world - wide depression all by myself.

Herbert Clark Hoove

To thine own self be true -; And it must follow as the night the day; Thou canst not be false to any man.

William Shakespeare

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

Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do, Ohara Publications

I shall despair. There is no creature loves me; And if I die no soul will pity me: And wherefore should they, since that I myself Find in myself no pity to myself?

William Shakespeare, Richard III, V. iii

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

Unknown

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

Carlos Fuentes

The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.

Gustave Flaubert

Self - Pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.

Helen Kelle

I wish everybody would have to have an electric thing implanted in our heads that gave us a shock whenever we did something to disobey the president. Then somehow I get myself elected president.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.

Joseph Campbell

To expect defeat is nine - Tenths of defeat itself.

Francis Crawford

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

James Arthur Baldwin

The greatist thing in the world is for a man to know how to be himself.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

Foster C. McClellan

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

Michel de Montaigne

To establish oneself in the world, one has to do all one can to appear established.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld