Self Quotes
Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.Horace, Epistles
So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 4 scene 5
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.Sophy Burnham
A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.Nathaniel Hawthorne
He who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself.John Milton
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion... I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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
He who is calm disturbs neither himself nor others.Epicurus
Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.John Jay Chapman
The reliance on property is... the want of self - Reliance. Men measure the esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is. But a cultivated man becomes ashamed of his property... Essays.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Egotist a person more interested in himself than in me.Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect he becomes an adolescent the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult the day he forgives himself he becomes wise.Alden Nowlan
It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.Salvador Dali
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.Sigmund Freud
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.Samuel Johnson
Real love is a permanently self - Enlarging experience.M. Scott Peck, O Magazine, February 2004
Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.Mary Cholmondeley
If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.D. L. Moody
Formal education will earn you a living, self - Education make you a fortune.Unknown
It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always this occupation ought to last as long as life.Queen Christina
Few people think more than two or three times a year I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.George Bernard Shaw
Most powerful is he who has himself in his power.Seneca
The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.C. S. Lewis
You grow up the day you have your first real laugh - - At yourself.Ethel Barrymoore
We believe that an artist, in order to be true to himself and his work, must be a free man.John F. Kennedy, Introducing Pablo Casals at a White House dinner, November 1961, at which he performed publicly for the first t
The only difference between a madman and myself is that I am not mad.Salvidor Dali
There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know these things.Hal Borland
The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.Havelock Ellis, Impressions and Comments (1914)
Promote yourself, but do not demote another.Israel Salante
He who has injured thee was stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him if stronger, spare thyself.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
You cannot stand anywhere in the universe that is outside of yourself.Deepak Chopra
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.Michael Jordan
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
Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.Thomas a Kempis
If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around you own.Emerson
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.Mark Twain
