Self Quotes
We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly... spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.Susan Taylo
As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self take the shape Of every creature in whom he is present.Maitri Upanishads
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.George Bernard Shaw
Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself.Jean Francois Revel
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.
I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Economy.
I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.Walt Whitman
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
One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.Wilfrid Sheed
Friends are relatives you make for yourself.Eustache Descamps
Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.Francis Quarles
Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul None is more gladdening or fruitful than to know You can regenerate and make yourself what you will.William James
On reflection, one of the things I needed to learn was to allow myself to be loved.Isha McKenzie - Mavinga
Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.Cicero
The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.Friedrich Nietzsche
What a man thinks of himself that is what determines, or rather indicates his fate.Henry David Thoreau
The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.W. S. Maugham, Of Human Bondage
It is noble to teach oneself, but still nobler to teach others - - And less trouble. - Speech, 1906.Mark Twain
Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.John Sturart Mill, Defence of Hedonism
The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903
Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.James A. Garfield
For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavouring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.George Orwell
Judge thyself with the judgment of sincerity, and thou will judge others with the judgment of charity.John Mitchell Mason
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.Leo Tolstoy
Lord Ronald said nothing he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.Stephen Leacock
Believe in yourself Have faith in your abilities Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.Norman Vincent Peale
The salary of the chief executive of the large corporations is not an award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm gesture by the individual to himself.John Kenneth Galbraith
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.Woodrow Wilson
There is nothing to fear but fear itself.Franklin D. Roosevelt
Tell no one the secret that you want to keep, although he may be worthy of confidence; for no one will be so careful of your secret as yourself.Saadi, On the Duties of Society
Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.Earl of Chesterfield
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself First, what could I do Second, what could I read And third, who could I ask.Jim Rohn
He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.Friedrich Nietzsche
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.Jean Anouilh
As soon as we left the ground I knew I myself had to fly!Amelia Earhart
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists".
Your central self is totally untouched By grief, confusion, desperation.Vernon Howard
Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use.Peter Mere Latham
