Self Quotes
Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.Saint Basil
I have a cat named Trash. In the current political climate it would seem that if I were trying to sell him at least to a Computer Scientist, I would not stress that he is gentle to humans and is self - Sufficient, living mostly on field mice. Rather, I would argue that he is object - Oriented.Roger King
It was when Lucifer first congratulated himself upon his angelic behavior that he became the tool of evil.Dag Hammarskjld
It is noble to teach oneself, it is still nobler to teach others.Mark Twain
One must not be mean with the affections what is spent of the fund is renewed in the spending itself.Sigmund Freud
The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect he becomes an adolescent the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult the day he forgives himself he becomes wise.Alden Nowlan
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - And you are the easiest person to fool.Richard Feynman, Caltech commencement address, 1974
Look well into thyself there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.Uta Hagan
The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself.Noam Chomsky, Ruth Anshen, Biography of an Idea (Mt. Kisco, NY: Moyer Bell Limited, 1986), pg. 196
The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.Jacob Bronowski, 1976
Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999
Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.Dame Edna Everage, In a television interview with Joan Rivers
Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial.Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.Thomas a Kempis
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - - That is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.James Thurbe
What makes the difference between a Nation that is truly great and one that is merely rich and powerful It is the simple things that make the difference. Honesty, knowing right from wrong, openness, self - Respect, and the courage of conviction.David L Boren
So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.William Shakespeare
I believe that to meet the challenge of the next century, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. Each of us must learn to work not just for his or her own self, family or nation, but for the benefit of all mankind.His Holiness the Dalai Lama, speech? in 1994
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.Benjamin Franklin
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke and that the joke is oneself.Clifton Paul Fadiman
If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.Marvin Gaye
Rather do what is nothing in the purpose than to be idle, that the devil may find thee doing. The bird that sits is easily shot when the fliers escape the fowler. Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all the virtues, and is the self - Made sepulcher of a living man.Francis Quarles
Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.Jean Jacques Rousseau
The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.Roger Banniste
Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.Earl of Chesterfield
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.Albert Einstein
When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.Edith Hamilton
I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself.Michel de Montaigne
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.Thomas H. Huxley
A fanatic is one compelled to action by the need to find a strong meaning in life. The fanatic determines for himself what role he is to play in life, and his intense devotion to a cause is the means.Eugene E. Brussell
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.Henry David Thoreau
The secret source of humour itself is not joy, but sorrow. There is no humour in heaven.Mark Twain
If I ever reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there first, to meet some I had not thought to see there second, to miss some I had expected to see there and third, the greatest wonder of all, to find myself there.John Newton
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.Kahlil Gibran
He who is calm disturbs neither himself nor others.Epicurus
