Self Quotes

Knowing others is intelligence knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao Tzu

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare, "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 2 scene 1

Give yourself something to work toward - - Constantly.

Mary Kay Ash

Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

Albert Camus

No man is free who is not master of himself.

Epictetus

He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self - Love seems so often unrequited.

Anthony Powell

He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.

Hesiod

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight and never stop fighting.

E e cummings

Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good do good. Be kind be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.

Swami Sivanada

The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.

Titus Livius

To be nobody but yourself, in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

E. E. Cummings

In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark.

Nicholson Bake

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.

Saint Teresa of Avila

He that plants trees loves others beside himself.

Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Sigmund Freud

To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.

Richard Whately

I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Economy.

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

Augusten Burroughs, Magical Thinking

Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.

Seneca

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

C. S. Lewis

For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.

Charles de Gaulle

I know all except myself.

Francois Villon, Ballade des Menus Propres

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Oscar Wilde

But respect yourself most of all.

Golden verses of the Pythagoreans

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self - Restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Theodore Roosevelt

There is no greater joy than of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Henri Bergson

I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.

Joseph Brodsky

For the sake of peace one may lie, but peace itself should never be a lie.

The Talmud

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

Pearl Bailey

I hate mankind, for I think of myself as one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

Samuel Johnson

A man can know nothing of mankind without knowing something of himself. Self - Knowledge is the property of that man whose passions have their full play, but who ponders over their results.

Benjamin Disraeli

Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth.

Sidney Madwed

Accuse not nature, she hath done her partDo thou but thine, and be not diffidentOf wisdom, she deserts thee not, if thouDismiss not her, when most thou needest her nigh, By attributing overmuch to thingsLess excellent, as thou thyself perceivest.

John Milton

If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me - Nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - But I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.

John Keats, Letter to Fanny Brawne, Feb 1820 - Died 1 year late

In your clothes avoid too much gaudiness do not value yourself upon an embroidered gown and remember that a reasonable word, or an obliging look, will gain you more respect than all your fine trappings.

Sir George Savile

Death in itself is nothing but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where.

John Dryden

Your mental attitude is someting you can control outright and you must use self - Discipline until you create a Positive Mental Attitude - - Your mental attitude attracts to you everything that makes you what you are.

Napolean Hill