Self Quotes
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.Dag Hammarskjld
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.Froude
He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others.Samuel Foote
A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction.Leo Tolstoy
Friendship without self - Interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.James F. Byrnes
The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.I Ching
Whoever despises himself still respects himself as one who despises.Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil aphorism 78
The sinners sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action.Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book nine
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
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.Albert Camus
I shall despair. There is no creature loves me; And if I die no soul will pity me: And wherefore should they, since that I myself Find in myself no pity to myself?William Shakespeare, Richard III, V. iii
Book dedication To myself, without whose inspired and tireless efforts this book would not have been possible.Al Jaffee
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.Alan Watts
Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.George Orwell
To conquer others is to have power, to conquer yourself is to know the way.Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, August 2004
Do you know what a pessimist is? A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.George Bernard Shaw, An Unsocial Socialist (1887) ch. 5
They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.John Morley
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.Reggie Leach
No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.Saint John Chrysostom, Letter to Olympia
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery; none but ourselves can free our minds.Bob Marley
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Self - Pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.John W. Gardne
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.James Thurber, in Edward R. Murrow television interview
A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - That is myself.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, "Meditations", book 2.
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia
A crisis does not always appear to a policymaker as a series of dramatic events. Usually it imposes itself as an exhausting agenda of petty chores demanding both concentration and endurance.Henry Kissinger, Years of Upheaval
A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the faade of his appearance.Jean Iris Murdoch
If the programmer can simulate a construct faster then the compiler can implement the construct itself, then the compiler writer has blown it badly.Guy L. Steele Jr., Tartan Laboratories
There will always be one who loves, and one who lets himself be loved.W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
None of you truly believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.Muhammad
She had learned the self - Deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and grasping, but her artifices could not always cover the nakedness of her need to excel.Faith Sullivan, The Cape Ann, 1988
All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self - Evident.Arthur Schopenhaue
Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity.Charles Caleb Colton
No one can give you better advice than yourself.Marcus Tullius Cicero
My schoolmates would make love to anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself.Emo Philips
When a proud man hears another praised, he feels himself injured.English Prove
