Self Quotes
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.Andrew Carnegie
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
More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.Amy Grant
Ahhh. A man with a sharp wit. Someone ought to take it away from him before he cuts himself.Peter da Silva
The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.Robyn Davidson
To find yourself, think for yourself.Socrates, The Apology
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
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.Abraham Maslow
The only thing to fear is fear itself.Franklin D. Roosevelt
Look well into thyself there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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
Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.Robert Bolt
A man is as old as he feels himself to be.English Prove
I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.Mohandas Ghandi
The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self - Activity.Thomas Carlyle
Friends are relatives you make for yourself.Eustache Descamps
Magic is believing in yourself. If you can do that, you can make anything happen.Foka Gomez
It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always this occupation ought to last as long as life.Queen Christina
To be in love Is to touch with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.Gwendolyn Brooks
Instead of solid accomplishments, the man pursues pleasures and self - Gratification. He will never achieve anything so long as he is surrounded by dissipating temptations.I Ching
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
Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self - Love might impair your judgment.Seneca
I have impeached myself by resigning.Richard Milhous Nixon
Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables, Leaving her wedding - Garlands to decay - - Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses.Charles Kingsley
If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself. Minquass.American Indian Prove
To understand is to forgive, even oneself.Alexander Chase
When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.Michel de Montaigne
It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.Graham Greene, The Ministry of Fea
Popularity comes from allowing yourself to be bored by people while pretending to enjoy it.Karol Newlin
Resolve to be thyself and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.Matthew Arnold
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.Virginia Woolf
Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.Joseph Addison
I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself. My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
A friend is, as it were, a second self.Cicero, De Amicitia
Experience is an asset of which no worker can be cheated, no matter how selfish or greedy his immediate employer may be.Napolean Hill
But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to few on this Earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to withstand. The brilliant Costaguanaro of the boulevards had died from solitude and want of faith in himself and others.Joseph Conrad, Nostromo (on the death of Decoud)
