Self Quotes
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
God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.Albert Einstein
Self - Denial is not a virtue it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.George Bernard Shaw
Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good do good. Be kind be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.Swami Sivanada
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
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.James Arthur Baldwin
Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.Martin Luther King Jr.
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand.Woodrow Wilson
Man is always more than he can know of himself consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.Golo Mann
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.H. L. Mencken
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.Robert Louis Stevenson
The true fanatic is a theocrat, someone who sees himself as acting on behalf of some super personal force the Race, the Party, History, the proletariat, the Poor, and so on. These absolve him from evil, hence he may safely do anything in their service.Lord Billingsley
Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self - Seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.Bible, 1 Corinthians 13: 4 - 7
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.Reggie Leach
Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self - Made laws.Sir Richard Francis Burton
Preparation is not the enemy of success, but a dear friend. Be good to yourself and the favor will return.Samuel Cunningham
The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others.Hazlitt
We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and you must win.Edward Gibbon
There are pauses amidst study, and even pauses of seeming idleness, in which a process goes on which may be likened to the digestion of food. In those seasons of repose, the powers are gathering their strength for new efforts; as land which lies fallow recovers itself for tillage.J. W. Alexande
Meditation... disolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass.Tom Robbins
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore and diverting himself and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary while the greater ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.Ashley Montagu
The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of benevolence and love to men.John Randolph
All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
An educated man... is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.Alan Simpson
No man ought to lay a cross upon himself, or to adopt tribulation, as is done in popedom but if a cross or tribulation come upon him, then let him suffer it patiently, and know that it is good and profitable for him.Martin Luthe
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.Will Rogers
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.Frederick Douglas
You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.John Ruskin
Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.Thomas a Kempis
The sinners sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action.Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book nine
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
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.David Mamet
Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself.American Indian Prove
Christ will remain a priest and king though He was never consecrated by any papist bishop or greased by any of those shavelings but he was ordained and consecrated by God Himself, and by Him anointed.Martin Luthe
We are more wicked together than separately. If you are forced to be in a crowd, then most of all you should withdraw into yourself.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
