Self Quotes

He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.

M. C. Esche

No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.

William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating

I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.

Charles Dudley Warne

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

George Sand

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.

John Updike

My friend, if I could give you one thing, I would wish for you the ability to see yourself as others see you. Then you would realize what a truly special person you are.

B. A. Billingsly

I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me instead of looking within myself to see what was there.

Belle Livingstone

God save me from my friends. I can protect myself from my enemies.

Claude Louis Hector de Villars

Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.

Josiah Royce

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

Marcus Garvey

There will always be one who loves, and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Sigmund Freud

When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.

Edith Hamilton

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

Confucius, Analects, XV. 24

Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self - Righteousness.

Sir Robert Hutchinson

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself First, what could I do Second, what could I read And third, who could I ask.

Jim Rohn

It is noble to teach oneself, it is still nobler to teach others.

Mark Twain

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self - Respect.

Theodore Parke

A bachelor is a selfish, undeserving guy who has cheated some woman out of a divorce.

Don Quinn

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

Sir Francis Bacon

The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self - Development is a higher duty than self - Sacrifice.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.

Mary Hemingway

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) Valley of Fear, 1915

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.

John Milton

Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self - Inflicted fate.

Albert Einstein

The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.

Wystan Hugh Auden

For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavouring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.

George Orwell

In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Marechal Ferdinand Foch

A friend is a second self.

Aristotle

The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self - Seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.

Jacopo Sannazaro

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

One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.

Wilfrid Sheed