Self Quotes
Few people think more than two or three times a year I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.George Bernard Shaw
The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.Pauline Kael
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.Benjamin Spock
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.Nathaniel Hawthorne
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
I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cut - Throat, competitive world in which I spent my life.Anthony Perkins
Self - Reverence, self knowledge, self - Control. These three alone lead life to sovereign power.Lord Tennyson
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
I began by telling the president that there was a cancer growing on the presidency and that if the cancer was not removed... the president himself would be killed by it.John Dean
A man who works beyond the surface of things, though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way for others and may make even his errors subservient to the cause of truth.Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry Into The Sublime and Beautiful
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
He who has injured thee was stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him if stronger, spare thyself.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Friendship with oneself is all - Important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.Eleanor Roosevelt
Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - The world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.Henry Mille
This quote reminds me to enjoy each moment of the summer Steep thyself in a bowl of summertime.Virgil
You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself.Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.Og Mandino
Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.Seneca
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
Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell.John Milton, Paradise Lost
N. B. Fear itself. See also H. D. Thoreau.Franklin D. Roosevelt
The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it.Mack R. Douglas
Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Human nature is not of itself vicious.Thomas Paine
There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.Hermann Hesse
There will be a time when loud - Mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails.Richard Rybolt
He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.George Herbert
Graham See what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles Or do you believe that people just get lucky Or, look at the question this way Is it possible that there are no coincidences.Signs
The man who fights for his fellow - Man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.Clarence Darrow
Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.Jesse Stuart
Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being.Blaise Pascal, Pensees(II, 72)
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world.Thomas Carlyle
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.Thomas Jefferson
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.Charles Austin Beard, historian
That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.Augusten Burroughs, Magical Thinking
