Self Quotes
A friend is somebody you want to be around when you feel like being by yourself.Barbara Burrow
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
You give little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.Kahlil Gibran
Why not be oneself That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound why try to look like a Pekinese.Edith Sitwell
Somehow he Tim gets thoughtful sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant for them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see.Charles Dickens
The power of one is above all things The power to believe in yourself Often well beyond any latent ability previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete, The body is simply the means it uses.Bryce Courtenay
It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.Salvador Dali
The way to final freedom is within thy self.The Book of the Golden Precepts
Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings essential to success.John McDonald
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.Friedrich Nietzsche
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
When God wants to speak and deal with us, he does not avail himself of an angel but of parents, or the pastor, or of our neighbor.Martin Luthe
The opinions we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself.Marcel Proust
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea - Shore, and diverting myself in finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean lay all undiscovered before me.Sir Isaac Newton, Epitaph
What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.Roland Barthes, Esprit
The spirit is the true self.Marcus Tullius Cicero
Resolve to be thyself and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.Matthew Arnold
The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.Charles Dudley Warne
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
What you keep for yourself, you lose. What you give away, you keep forever.Axel Monthe
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self - Interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self - Love, and never talk to them of our own neccessities but of their advantages.Adam Smith
The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes.Aubrey Menen
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.Albert Einstein
Frost You may wake up one day and find yourself extinct.Blade
Learn to limit yourself, to content yourself with some definite thing, and some definite work; dare to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not and to believe in your own individuality.Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.Marcus Aurelius
Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.Adele Brookman
I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself. My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself.Jean Francois Revel
Before a man can wake up and find himself famous he has to wake up and find himself.Author Unknown
When a proud man hears another praised, he feels himself injured.English Prove
Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffered Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night - She was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question - Is this all.Betty Naomi Friedan
He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.Lao Tzu
You can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search.Maxwell Maltz
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
Where self - Interest is suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control that dries up the wellspring of initiative and creativity.Pope John Paul II
