Self Quotes
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
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.Aldous Huxley
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self - Confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.Arnold Bennett
A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.Sir Thomas More
Look at the bow in the cloud, in the very rain itself. That is a sign that the sun, though you cannot see it, is shining still - - That up above beyond the cloud is still sunlight and warmth and cloudless blue sky.Charles Kingsley
Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self - Gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.Helen Kelle
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.Albert Einstein
It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.Mary Daly
No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it... To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.Thomas Jefferson
Self - Love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing people a favor, and vise versa.Dr. Karl A. Menninge
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.Sarah Bernhardt
Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou are not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will.Thomas a Kempis
Just what is it that America stands for If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self - Governing people.Woodrow Wilson
We hold these truths to be self - Evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments a.Thomas Jefferson
Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.Samuel Adams
Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary monetary matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.William Cobbett
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.Charles Austin Beard, historian
When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness. To seek treasures where there is only trash... Too much sanity may be madness, and maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.Miguel De Cervantes, Don Quixote de la Mancha
He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.John Milton
Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.Sir Thomas Browne
A man, to be greatly good, must magine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and in many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.Percy Bysshe Shelley
He who despises himself esteems himself as a self - Despiser.Friedrich Nietzsche
All the blessings which you pray to obtain hereafter could be yours today, if you did not deny them to yourself.Marcus Aurelius, Meditations? Book Twelve
The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself.James Thurbe
Do not wrong or hate your neighbor, for it is not he that you wrong: You wrong yourself.Shawnee Indian Chant
No important institution is ever merely what the law makes it. It accumulates about itself traditions, conventions, ways of behaviour, which are not less formidable in their influence.Harold Laki
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.Benjamin Franklin
I live in the crowds of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.Samuel Johnson
Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.Mary Cholmondeley
A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.Voltaire
No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead. Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study, and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think.John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.Anna Quindlen
There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self.Demosthenes
Fortunately, psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself remains a very effective therapist.Karen Horney
Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.Matthew Arnold
I thank God for my handicaps, for through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.Hellen Kelle
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.Alexander Hamilton
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
