Self Quotes
The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.Whitney Young
We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.Lloyd Alexande
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.Voltaire
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.Ralph Waldo Emerson
This quote reminds me to enjoy each moment of the summer Steep thyself in a bowl of summertime.Virgil
I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.Mohandas Ghandi
The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.Pauline Kael
I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself. My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.Cyril Connolly
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, this is no other life but this.Henry David Thoreau
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
When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.Isaac Bashevis Singe
The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.Rita Mae Brown, Venus Envy
Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.Sir Walter Raleigh
A great leader never sets himself above his followers except in carrying responsibilities.Jules Ormont
The planting of trees is the least self - Centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.Thornton
He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.William Shakespeare
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.Brenda Ueland
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
It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always this occupation ought to last as long as life.Queen Christina
Modesty and unselfishness - - These are the virtues which men praise - - And pass by.Andr Maurois
Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.Sir Thomas Browne
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.George Bernard Shaw
Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.Chief Seattle
The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.Charles Peguy
All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself, and never mind the rest.Beatrix Potte
A greedy man will always find himself in the shackles of humility.Imam Ali, Peak of Eloquence (Nahjul Balagha)
You never find yourself until you face the truth.Pearl Bailey
Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.Samuel Johnson
Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.George Orwell
To linger in the observation of things other than the self implies a profound conviction of their worth.Charles - Damian Boulogne
Think highly of yourself, for the world takes you at your own estimate.Author Unknown
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim.Graham Greene, Heart of the Matter (1948)
A self - Balancing, 28 - Jointed adaptor - Based biped; an electro - Chemical reduction plant, integral with segregated stowages of special energy extracts in storage batteries, for subsequent actuation of thousands of hydraulic and pneumatic pumps, with motors attached; 62, 000 miles of capillaries....R. Buckminster Fulle
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.James A. Froude
