Self Quotes

If you turn your back on these people, you yourself are an animal. You may be a well - Dressed animal, but you are nevertheless an animal.

Edward Irving Koch

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be.... Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.

Wilfred Peterson, This Week (Oct. 1, 1961)

The spirit is the true self.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The self - Explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Elias Canetti

He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid. But he said, in substance, to himself that if the earth and the moon were about to clash, many people would doubtless plan to get upon the roofs to witness the collision.

Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage, chapter 8

Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself.

Jean Francois Revel

I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, Have a nice day.

Peter Brodie

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

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

Arthur Brisbane

There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.

Norman Douglas

First say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have to do.

Epictetus

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

A pessimist thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

George Bernard Shaw

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

G. C. Lichtenberg

America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant.

Garry Trudeau

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something.

Henry David Thoreau

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - - And you are the easiest person to fool.

Richard Phillips Feynman

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.

Czech Prove

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

Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he Who finds himself, loses his misery.

Matthew Arnold

Self - Confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Samuel Johnson

Help thyself, and God will help thee.

Jean de La Fontaine

At sixteen I was stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. At twenty - Five I was wise, self - Confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty - Five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence?

Jules Feiffe

Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors, concern for the great unsolved problems of the organization of labor and the distribution of goods - - In order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

Albert Einstein

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.

Abraham Maslow

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.

Thomas Jefferson

I believe this nation should commit itself, to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.

John F. Kennedy, in a speech on May 25, 1961

Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

Mark Twain

Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.

Robert F. Bennett

An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.

Publilius Syrus

What you love is a sign from your higher self of what you are to do.

Sanaya Roman

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

If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self - Interest, you can have practically anything you go after.

Napoleon Hill

Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed.

Solomon Short

Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 3