Self Quotes
My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self - Defense.Fred Allen
By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self - Denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?Jackie Mason
Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.Ecclesiastes
Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.Jose Ortega y Gasset
To handle yourself, use your head To handle others, use your heart.Roosevelt, Eleano
Conquering others takes force, conquering yourself is true strength.Lao - Tzu
How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.Publilius Syrus
True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.Voltaire
Rather do what is nothing in the purpose than to be idle, that the devil may find thee doing. The bird that sits is easily shot when the fliers escape the fowler. Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all the virtues, and is the self - Made sepulcher of a living man.Francis Quarles
He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires and fears is more than a King.John Milton
Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.Thomas Jefferson
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - And you are the easiest person to fool.Richard Feynman, Caltech commencement address, 1974
Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.Henry James
The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.Cicero
I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me.Anwar el - Sadat
Money is human happiness in the abstract he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.Arthur Schopenhaue
Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.Thomas Fulle
True nobility is in being superior to your previous self.Hindustani Prove
To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.Richard Whately
Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.Ausonius
Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.William S. Burroughs
Nature is wont to hide herself.Heraclitus, On the Universe
I have found it difficult to endear myself to those who could best positively affect the quality of my life.Eli Khamarov
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
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
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.Dag Hammarskjld
To be nobody but yourself, in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.E. E. Cummings
We can begin by noting that the body prefers to keep itself alive.John Tierney, Esquire, August 1981
The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear minded and self - Controlled so that you can pray. Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.1 Peter 47 - 8 Bible
Look well into thyself there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
I looked with chameleon eyes upon the changing face of the world, looked with anonymous vision upon my uncompleted self.Anais Nin, House of Incest
Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle is a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifests itself in the form of a feeling.Nathaniel Brandon
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.Abraham Lincoln
Give not over thy soul to sorrow and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.Ecclesiastes
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.Francis Quarles
To be proud of virtue is to poison oneself with the antidote.Benjamin Franklin, ?
If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself. Minquass.American Indian Prove
