Self Quotes

I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.
Carl Jung
What the superior man seeks is in himself what the small man seeks is in others.
Confucius
To what purpose should I trouble myself in searching out the secrets of the stars, having death or slavery continually before my eyes?
Anaximenes
Niccolo machiavelli, the prince - it is a base thing to look to others for your...
He wrapped himself in quotations - As a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
Rudyard Kipling
Stephen leacock - lord ronald said nothing he flung himself from...
Man will do many things to get himself loved he will do all things to get himself envied.
Mark Twain
Better keep yourself clean and bright you are the window through which you must see the world.
George Bernard Shaw
The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it.
Mack R. Douglas
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
A threat is basically a means for establishing a bargaining position by inducing fear in the subject. When a threat is used, it should always be implied that the subject himself is to blame by using words such as You leave me no other choice but to...
CIA Manual
But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.
William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II Scene 6
The people that one bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - Bread and circuses.
Juvenal
When solving a panic you must first ask yourself what you were doing that could possibly frighten an operating system.
Peter van der Linden
About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.
Michael Caine, www. aint - It - Cool - News. com
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Marcus Aurelius
There are pauses amidst study, and even pauses of seeming idleness, in which a process goes on which may be likened to the digestion of food. In those seasons of repose, the powers are gathering their strength for new efforts; as land which lies fallow recovers itself for tillage.
J. W. Alexande
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
Sir Thomas Browne
Oscar wilde, the picture of dorian gray, 1891 - perhaps, after all, america never has been...
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
Agnes Repplie
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self - Righteousness.
Sir Robert Hutchinson
Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.
Robert F. Bennett
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Self - Denial is not a virtue it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
George Bernard Shaw
You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you - - The rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered.
Antoine de Saint - Exupery, The Little Prince
What a man thinks of himself that is what determines, or rather indicates his fate.
Henry David Thoreau
I bet the sparrow looks at the parrot and thinks, yes, you can talk, but LISTEN TO YOURSELF.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Get into the habit of asking yourself if what you are doing can be handled by someone else.
Author Unknown
Nothing feeds upon itself as liberality does.
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince (1513)
Do you ever sit down and wonder what is wrong with the world Do you ever ask yourself why it is that Christians seem to have so little influence, why they seem to achieve so little, for all their numbers, in putting the world right To each of those two questions there is ultimately but one answer. It is this we lack the mind of Christ.
J. Arthur Lewis
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Kahlil Gibran
Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
Kahlil Gibran
You cannot dream yourself into a character you must hammer and forge yourself one.
James A. Froude
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
Where there are no tigers, a wildcat is very self - Important.
Korean Prove
Nothing is easier than self - Deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
Demosthenes, Third Olynthiac
Energy is that amazing feeling that comes to life inside of you when you? re happy and believe in yourself.
Richard Simmons
Real love is a permanently self - Enlarging experience.
M. Scott Peck, O Magazine, February 2004
God conceals himself from the mind of man, but reveals himself to his heart.
African Prove
You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.
Florida Scott - Maxwell, Oprah Magazine, May 2004