Self Quotes

Isaac newton - i do not know what i may appear to the world; but...
When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy.
Anon.
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
Elie Wiesel
The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun - Illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?
Edwin Markham
Jim morrison - i think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive...
To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
Simone de Beauvoi
Sir robert hutchison - vegetarianism is harmless enough, although it is...
When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.
Oscar Wilde, Jack from The Importance of Being Earnest
You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.
Ethel Barrymore
Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous. But to an even greater degree than the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of carelessness, incapacity, or neglect.
Anonymous
Give not over thy soul to sorrow and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.
Ecclesiastes
Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself.
Frank Crane
Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
Hippocrates, Regimen
Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.
Robert Bolt
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world.
Thomas Carlyle
It is one of those beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Charles Dudley Warne
It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957
Pride, like laudanun and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.
Frederick Saunders
Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously; and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.
Booth Tarkington
Ask yourself Have you been kind today Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.
Annie Lennox
If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.
Sidney Madwed
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self - Respect.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self - Respect will you compel others to respect you.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.
Samuel Smiles
Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers Love, nightmare - Like, lies heavy on my chest, And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers.
William S. Gilbert
If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
Mark
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
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
Epictetus
The very fact of its finding itself in agreement with other minds perturbs it, so that it hunts for points of divergence, feeling the urgent need to make it clear that at least it reached the same conclusions by a different route.
Herbert Butterfield
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
The more you talk to yourself, the more apt you are to lie.
Author Unknown
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self - Satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.
John Wooden
Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - They bear no fruit.
Francis Marion
You cannot dream yourself into a character you must hammer and forge yourself one.
James A. Froude
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitalitythe supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward in my actions and not from them.
Hugh Prathe
When an American says that he loves his country, he... means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self - Respect.
Adlai Ewing Stevenson
The best leader is the one who has the sense to surround himself with outstanding people and self - Restraint not to meddle with how they do their jobs.
Author Unknown