Self Quotes
Risk Risk anything Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.Katherine Mansfield
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.Albert Einstein
Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self confidence young. Keep your hope young.Luella F. Phean
Know thyself? A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly.Andre Gide
It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.W. Somerset Maugham
Most maxim - Mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.Robert Ingersoll
The tragic mistake of so many in the environmentalist movement is the belief that the rest of the world can afford to hold itself to our expensive green standards.Jonathan Berry
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.George Bernard Shaw
Get into the habit of asking yourself if what you are doing can be handled by someone else.Author Unknown
If heaven is going to be full of people like Hardie, well, the Almighty can have them to himself.Sir Winston Churchill
Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.Dr. David M. Burns
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man - Given. Be grateful. Conceit is self - Given. Be careful.John Wooden
Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self - Made laws.Sir Richard Francis Burton
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.Cynthia Ozick
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.Aldous Huxley
Keep thy religion to thyself.George Carlin
Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee.Thomas Fulle
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...Trieu Thi Trinh
I paint self - Portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.Frida Kahlo
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
Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.Samuel Johnson
Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light.Baltasar Gracian
The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man and without this all other education is good for nothing.R. D. Hitchcock
Egotist a person more interested in himself than in me.Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.George Gurdjieff
Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man.... such a man is a true gentleman.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of Mankind is Man.Alexander Pope
If you had it all to do over, would you fall in love with yourself again?Author Unknown
The academic mind can eat away the very basis of its own assurance... produce contortions when it tries to bend over backward... allow itself to be dismayed by the picture it has created of relentless historical process.Herbert Butterfield
To understand is to forgive, even oneself.Alexander Chase
He who carries out one good deed acquires one advocate in his own behalf, and he who commits one transgression acquires one accuser against himself. Repentance and good works are like a shield against calamity.The Talmud
Be not surprised if thou findest thyself in possession of unexpected wealth. Allah will provide an unexpected use for it.James J. Roche
I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself.Michel de Montaigne
You must be willing to protect yourself and what you cherish, no matter what the cost.Christopher Paolini, Author of Eragon and Eldest. Quote from Eragon.
Everything is connected... no one thing can change by itself.Paul Hawken
Shun praise. Praise leads to self - Delusion. Thy body is not Self, thyself is in itself without a body, and either praise or blame affects it not.H Hahn Blavatsky
