Self Quotes

It could be said that the AIDS pandemic is a classic own - Goal scored by the human race against itself.

Anne

He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid. But he said, in substance, to himself that if the earth and the moon were about to clash, many people would doubtless plan to get upon the roofs to witness the collision.

Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage, chapter 8

There is an atmosphere of well - Sounding oratory that likes to attach itself to dress clothes. Away with it.

Albert Einstein

If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself.

Horace

You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide - Sounding Zeus puts a good mind.

Homer, The Iliad

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time...

Charles Dickens

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self - Confidence.

Robert Frost

Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.

Kyle Chandle

Everything is connected... no one thing can change by itself.

Paul Hawken

This report, by its very length, defends itself against being read.

Winston Churchill

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

He wrapped himself in quotations - As a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

Rudyard Kipling

It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

Queen Christina, of Sweden, 1629 - 1689

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

Rebecca West

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

Anna Freud

Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight. Equilibrium is pragmatic. You have to get everything into proportion. You compensate, rebalance yourself so that you maintain your angle to the world. When the world shifts, you shift.

Tom Stoppard

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

The tragic mistake of so many in the environmentalist movement is the belief that the rest of the world can afford to hold itself to our expensive green standards.

Jonathan Berry

A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self - Addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.

Ring Lardner, "How to Write Short Stories".

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

Jim Morrison

But I have always liked bird dogs better than kennel - Fed dogs myself - - You know, one that will get out and hunt for food rather than sit on his fanny and yell.

Charles E. Wilson

Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.

Igor Stravinski

Where there is a will there is a way, is an old and true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement. To think we are able, is almost to be so - To determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.

Samuel Smiles

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.

William S. Burroughs

Where there are no tigers, a wildcat is very self - Important.

Korean Prove

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.

Richard Bach

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.

Robert Fritz

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone.

Samuel Johnson

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.

Robert Burton

Whoever despises himself still respects himself as one who despises.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil aphorism 78

All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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

Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.

H. L. Mencken

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

Foster C. McClellan

True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.

Voltaire

Have no friends not equal to yourself.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects