Self Quotes

A man, to be greatly good, must magine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and in many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

As long as I am an American citizen and American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject.

Elija Lovejoy

I have found a desire within myself that no experience in this world can satisfy; the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

C. S. Lewis

Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.

George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 8

Resolve to be thyself and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

Matthew Arnold

You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself.

Harvey Firestone

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

Maya Angelou

No book has yet been written in praise of a woman who let her husband and children starve or suffer while she invented even the most useful things, or wrote books, or expressed herself in art, or evolved philosophic systems.

Anna Garlin Spence

Let us forever forget that every station in life is necessarily that each deserves our respect; that not the station itself; but the worthy fulfillment of its duties does honor the man.

Mary Lyon

People who imagine themselves to be self - Made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail.

Richard Russo

Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

Chief Seattle

When solving a panic you must first ask yourself what you were doing that could possibly frighten an operating system.

Peter van der Linden

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life, it is life itself.

Henry Havelock Ellis

Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.

Anthony Robbins

To establish true self - Esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

Denis Watley

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare, "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 2 scene 1

Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.

Stephen Leacock, "Nonsense Novels", 1911

What a man thinks of himself that is what determines, or rather indicates his fate.

Henry David Thoreau

I look at my myself and see a stone, I look at my friends and see gold, But I look at you, and see a gem.

Unknown

He who allows himself to be insulted, deserves to be.

Pierre Corneille

I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.

Dietrich Bonhoeffe

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

Iris Murdoch

Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.

Horace, Epistles

Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.

Epictetus

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.

Eric Hoffe

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self - Confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

Arnold Bennett

Everyone is in business for himself, for he is selling his services, labor or ideas. Until one realizes that this is true he will not take conscious charge of his life and will always be looking outside himself for guidance.

Sidney Madwed

Nature is wont to hide herself.

Heraclitus, On the Universe

Happy is he who can give himself up.

Naguib Mahfouz

What is life? It is a flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

Crowfoot

If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.

Mark

It is by no means self - Evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.

Thomas Elliot

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - Your ideal of what you long to attain - The ideal of health, efficiency, success.

Orison Swett Marden

It is one of those beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Charles Dudley Warne