Self Quotes

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus, Miles Gloriosus

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Scott Adams

Where self - Interest is suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control that dries up the wellspring of initiative and creativity.

Pope John Paul II

When the opponent expand, I contract, When he contracts, I expand, And when there is an opportunity, I do not hit - - It hits all by itself.

Bruce Lee

You cannot teach a man anything. you can only help him to find it for himself.

Galileo Galilei

I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

Walt Whitman, Song of Myself, 1855

Building castles in the air, and making yourself a laughing - Stock.

Miguel de Cervantes

I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me instead of looking within myself to see what was there.

Belle Livingstone

It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheefully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait... And as to you, Life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.

Walt Whitman

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

Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.

Andre Gide

Self - Denial is not a virtue it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

George Bernard Shaw

Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself.

American Indian Prove

Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.

Dame Edna Everage, In a television interview with Joan Rivers

Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself.

Bertrand Russell

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings essential to success.

John McDonald

Many politicians lay it down as a self - Evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Lord Macaulay

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

Abraham Lincoln

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

Ronald Reagan

Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial.

Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

Henry Ward Beeche

Becoming a star may not be your destiny, but being the best you can be is a goal that you can set for yourself.

Brian Lindsay

The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master - Something that at time strangely wills and works for itself.

Charlotte Bronte

Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for beingWhy thou wert there, O rival of the roseI never sought to ask, I never knewBut, in my simple ignorance supposeThe selfsame power that brought me there brought you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I still have a lot to learn - About the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting.

Britney Spears

Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed: for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess.

Rene Descartes, Discourse on Method

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

Desiderius Erasmus

I wish everybody would have to have an electric thing implanted in our heads that gave us a shock whenever we did something to disobey the president. Then somehow I get myself elected president.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.

Giovanni Ruffini

Do you want to be a power in the world Then be yourself.

Ralph Waldo Trine

Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all, and if thee continually talks of thyself as being old, thee may perhaps bring on some of the infirmities of age. At least I would not risk it if I were thee.

Hannah Whitall Smith, 1907

Sometimes when I look at my children I say to myself, Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.

Lillian Carter, mother of Jimmy and Billy

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

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

Frederick Douglas

The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.

George Washington Allston