Self Quotes

The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.

Oscar Wilde

In the choice of a horse and a wife, a man must please himself, ignoring the opinion and advice of friends.

George John Whyte - Melville

The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.

Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903

There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know these things.

Hal Borland

A friend is a second self.

Aristotle

Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self - Righteous isolation.

John Dewey

You have to expect things of yourself before you do them.

Michael Jordan

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

Anais Nin

Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, August 2004

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

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself. Minquass.

American Indian Prove

I was like a boy playing on the sea - Shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Isaac Newton

Self - Pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.

John W. Gardne

Sometimes when I look at my children I say to myself, Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.

Lillian Carter, mother of Jimmy and Billy

As I see it, every day you do one of two things build health or produce disease in yourself.

Adelle Davis

Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.

John Stuart Mill

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Samuel Johnson

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

Johnson

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

Hermann Hesse

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he who thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

C. C. Colton

People are unreasonable, illogical, and self - Centered. Love them anyway.

Mother Theresa

Your central self is totally untouched By grief, confusion, desperation.

Vernon Howard

The vain man is generally a doubter. It is Newton who sees himself as child on the sea shore, and his discoveries in the colored shell.

Willmott

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - - Making it possible to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

Susan Sontag

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Robert Anson Heinlein

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.

Leszezynski Stanislaus

If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you started.

Marcus Garvey

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

George Herbert Walker Bush

First make yourself unpopular, then people will take you seriously.

Konrad Adenauer, 1876 - 1967

Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.

Robert F. Bennett

You cannot stand anywhere in the universe that is outside of yourself.

Deepak Chopra

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside yourself.

Jacob Bigelow

I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cut - Throat, competitive world in which I spent my life.

Anthony Perkins

In summer, the song sings itself.

William Carlos Williams

When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.

Thomas Jefferson

Increase your personal power through positive and powerful communication. Recognize and eliminate negative self talk.

Caterina Rando

There is nothing remarkable about it, all one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.

J. S. Bach