Self Quotes

Judge thyself with the judgment of sincerity, and thou will judge others with the judgment of charity.

John Mitchell Mason

There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.

George Sarton, History of Science

Any effort that has self - Glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.

Robert M. Pirsig

The idea of an incarnation of God is absurd: why should the human race think itself so superior to bees, ants, and elephants as to be put in this unique relation to its maker? . . Christians are like a council of frogs in a marsh or a synod of worms on a dung - Hill croaking and squeaking for our sakes was the world created.

Julian the Apostate

Building castles in the air, and making yourself a laughing - Stock.

Miguel de Cervantes

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

Plutarch

Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - - Nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933

Any ordinary man can... surround himself with two thousand books... and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

Augustine Birrell

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

I still have a lot to learn - About the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting.

Britney Spears

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

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.

Lyman Beeche

If you turn your back on these people, you yourself are an animal. You may be a well - Dressed animal, but you are nevertheless an animal.

Edward Irving Koch

God save me from my friends. I can protect myself from my enemies.

Claude Louis Hector de Villars

The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.

John Updike

I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.

Johann Kaspar Lavate

Do you know what a pessimist is? A person who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself and hates them for it.

George Bernard Shaw

Talent is like a faucet while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration - A hoax fabricated by poets for their self - Importance.

Jean Anouilh

People who imagine themselves to be self - Made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail.

Richard Russo

Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self - Confidence and your self - Doubt.

Kahlil Gibran

I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, and receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.

Woody Allen

The mayor gave no other answer than that deep guttural grunt which is technically known in municipal interviews as refusing to commit oneself.

Stephen Butler Leacock

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - Especially when one is right.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

Mary Daly

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

Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

Sarah Bernhardt

He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others.

Samuel Foote

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Mark Twain

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self - Confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

Arnold Bennett

This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

William Shakespeare, Hamlet

If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.

Saint Augustine

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

Napolean Hill

If the thunder is not loud, the peasant forgets to cross himself.

Assyrian Prove

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

Albert Einstein

Occasionally, I have to think like myself to remember where I put something.

Sue S. Taylo

Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

Samuel Adams