Self Quotes
I have a prejudice against people who print things in a foreign language and add no translation. When I am the reader, and the other considers me able to do the translating myself, he pays me the quite a nice compliment - - But if he would do the translating for me I would try to get along without the compliment. A Tramp Abroad, 1880.Mark Twain
Respect yourself most of all.Pythagorus
Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills.Kahlil Gibran
My main hope for myself is to be where I am.Woody Harrelson
It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.Charles Baudelaire
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The more you talk to yourself, the more apt you are to lie.Author Unknown
Self - Esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.Nathaniel Branden
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.Saint Teresa of Avila
The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of this world is not to have and to hold but to give and serve. There can be no other meaning.Sir Wilfred T. Grenfell
The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - Bread and circuses!Juvenal, Satires
Death in itself is nothing but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where.John Dryden
A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.Peter McArthu
I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast. After she was pelted with eggs during a walkabout on New Zealand visit.Elizabeth II
I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.Helena Rubinstein
Under peaceful conditions the militant man attacks himself.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.Kahlil Gibran
He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.Raymond Hull
By constant self - Discipline and self - Control you can develop greatness of characte.Grenville Kleise
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
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.Elie Wiesel
Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.Harry Emerson Fosdick
The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of Hell and a hell of Heaven.John Milton, Dr. Faustus
You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide - Sounding Zeus puts a good mind.Homer, The Iliad
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.Nathaniel Hawthorne
Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.George Bernard Shaw
The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it.Mack R. Douglas
The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.Jane Wagne
A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.Henry Ward Beeche
He who demands mercy and shows none burns the bridges over which he himself must later pass.Thomas Adams
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.Sir Richard F. Burton
Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.Alice James
Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self - Gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.Helen Kelle
Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction.Leo Tolstoy
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.William Shenstone
Nature herself makes the wise man rich.Cicero
