Self Quotes
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.Thomas Jefferson
I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself.Terence, Adelphoe
The only difference between a madman and myself is that I am not mad.Salvidor Dali
Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
Remember Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - Then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.Endicott Peabody
When you meet the president, you ask yourself, How did it ever occur to anybody that he should be governor much less president.Henry Kissinge
We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands upon himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.Jose Ortega y Gasset
The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.Mark Twain
And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that of yourself which you yet know not of.William Shakespeare
How can we expect another to keep our secret, if we cannot keep it ourself.La Rochefoucauld
If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.Sebastien - Roch Nicolas
It is against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self - Critical?Alan Perlis
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.George Bernard Shaw
A man of understanding has lost nothing, if he has himself.Michel de Montaigne
The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself and carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion. It is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion.Auguste Renoi
How anybody dresses is indicative of his self - Concept. If students are dirty and ragged, it indicates they are not interested in tidying up their intellects either.S Hayakawa
Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.Johann Georg von Zimmermann
If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself. Minquass.American Indian Prove
Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled to concentrate to accept conflict and tension to be born everyday to feel a sense of self.Erich Fromm
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.Mark Twain
It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.Charles Baudelaire
Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.Evelyn Underhill
But true love is a durable fire In the mind ever burning Never sick, never old, never dead From itself never turning.Sir Walter Raleigh
There has already been published by the bucketfuls such brazen lies and utter fictions about me that I would long since have gone to my grave if I had let myself pay attention to that.Albert Einstein
I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.Walt Whitman
To make mistakes is human to stumble is commonplace to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.William Arthur Ward
There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.Niccolo Machiavelli
Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.Saint Basil
Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.Baltasar Gracian
Do I contradict myself Very well then I contradict myself,Walt Whitman
One must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star.Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
I was taught very early that I would have to depend entirely upon myself that my future lay in my own hands.Darius Ogden Mills
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
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
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full - On metamorphosis.Martha Beck, O Magazine, Growing Wings, January 2004
There is nothing to fear but fear itself.Franklin D. Roosevelt
Formerly a public man needed a private secretary for a barrier between himself and the public. Nowadays he has a press secretary to keep him properly in the public eye.Daniel J. Boorstin