Self Quotes
Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you - - Out of love - - Takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice.Dag Hammarskjld
The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self - Love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self - Absorption.Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in the way of treating people with kindness and decency. The point is no that they will then be nice to you. It is that you will feel better about yourself.Robert Solow
Life itself is a quotation.Jorge Luis Borges
We hold these truths to be self - Evident that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.US Declaration of Independence
I believe that to meet the challenge of the next century, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. Each of us must learn to work not just for his or her own self, family or nation, but for the benefit of all mankind.His Holiness the Dalai Lama, speech? in 1994
When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.Confucious
The opinions we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself.Marcel Proust
Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self - Love.Francois de Fenelon
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
I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.Eleanor Roosevelt
For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the breast, And the heart must pause for breath, And love itself have rest.Lord Byron
A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more. Nobody is going to win a 5, 000 meter race after running an easy 2 miles. Not with me. If I lose forcing the pace all the way, well, at least I can live with myself.Steve Prefontaine
A good intention clothes itself with power.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.C. S. Lewis
Loneliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best thing you can do it to know yourself... know what you want.Janet Fitch, "White Oleander".
He for himself weaves woe who weaves for others woe, and evil counsel on the counselor recoils.Hesiod
You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it. Better keep yourself clean and bright you are the window through which you must see the world.Sir Walter Besant
Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.Sir John Gielgud
For myself I am an optimist - It does not seem to be much use being anything else.Sir Winston Churchill
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
Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
We have to remember that what we observe is not nature in itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning.Werner Heisenberg
I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.William Blake
Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.Doris Lessing
You give little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.Kahlil Gibran
Never expose yourself unnecessarily to danger a miracle may not save you... and if it does, it will be deducted from your share of luck or merit.The Talmud
Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.Silius Italicus
I knew a man who gave up smoking, drinking, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.Johnny Carson, people magazine special issue
It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to be kind to another, without helping himself.Bailey
The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.Jacob Bronowski, 1976
In all the work we do, our most valuable asset can be the attitude of self - Examination. It is forgivable to make mistakes, but to stand fast behind a wall of self - Righteousness and make the same mistake twice is not forgivable.Dr. Dale E. Turne
The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.... God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.Pierre Charron
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.Pope John XXIII
Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.Sir Thomas Browne
