Self Quotes

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.

Joseph Sobran

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world.

Thomas Carlyle

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

Nicholson Bake

If your house is on fire, warm yourself by it.

Danish prove

What makes the difference between a Nation that is truly great and one that is merely rich and powerful It is the simple things that make the difference. Honesty, knowing right from wrong, openness, self - Respect, and the courage of conviction.

David L Boren

A man who works beyond the surface of things, though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way for others and may make even his errors subservient to the cause of truth.

Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Inquiry Into The Origins Of The Sublime And Beatiful.

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.

Elisabeth Kubler - Ross

The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

John Ciardi

Defining consultancy is a bit like defining the upper class every possible candidate draws the line just below himself.

John Peet

He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires and fears is more than a King.

John Milton

It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self - Centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self - Reliance

If you want your eggs hatched, sit on them yourself.

Haitian Prove

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts.

Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics

Language exists only on the surface of our consciousness. The great human struggles are played out in silence and in the ability to express oneself.

Franz Xavier Kroetz

If you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, then make that change.

Michael Jackson, Man In The Mirro

Patience with others is Love, Patience with self is Hope, Patience with God is Faith.

Adel Bestavros

That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust.

Gustave Flaubert, 1, 911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist, section 2

I am a poet. I lock myself in my room with a type writer so I can talk in terms of the world that has put me here.

Eric Pio

For any woman to success in American life she must first do two things Prepare herself for a profession, and marry a man who wants her to succeed as much as she does.

Cathleen Douglas

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

Vince Lombardi

Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.

Thomas Jefferson

Other people may not have high expectations of me, But I have high expectations for myself.

Shannon Mille

My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.

Robert Browning

Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.

Jesse Stuart

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving.

Albert Einstein

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Virginia Woolf

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

He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it.

Thaddeus Golas

Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.

Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999

Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.

Elie Wiesel, Chicago Sun - Times, November 5, 2001

Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government but civilization itself.

Gerald R. Ford, Inaugural Address, 9 August 1974

If you have no confidence in yourself you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won before you have started.

Marcus Garvey