Self Quotes
My schoolmates would make love to anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself.Emo Philips
Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences of life.Gottfried Reinhardt
There is more learning in the question itself than the answer.Andrew Weremy
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - - Great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.Jim Rohn
There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.La Bruyere
The art of advice is to make the recipient believe he thought the thought of it himself.Frank Tyge
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.Lucille Ball
Believe in something larger than yourself.Barbara Bush
Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.Eric Hoffe
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
He who knows others is wise; He who know himself is enlightened.Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
Happiness is a sunbeam, Which may pass through a thousand bosoms Without losing a particle of its original ray Nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, Like the converged light on a mirror, It reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.Jane Porte
There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.Proverbs 137 Bible
History repeats itself and history never repeats itself are about equally trueWe never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.George Macaulay Trevelyan
No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.Henry David Thoreau
The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.Hasidic Saying
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
No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.Pythagorus
The reason of a resolution is more to be considered than the resolution itself.Sir John Holt
If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured; try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.Jean Jacques Rousseau
Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood.Louise Beal
Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.Charles Dickens
Guilt resembles a sword with two edges. On the one hand, it cuts for Justice, imposing practical morality upon those who fear it. But there is another side to that weighted emotion. Conscience does not always adhere to rational judgment. Guilt is always a self - Imposed burden, but it is not always rightly imposed.R. A. Salvatore, Sojourn
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.Christine Bovee
If you have a brain in your head and feet in your shoes, you can steer youeself in any direction you choose.Dr. Seuss
Pride, like laudanun and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.Frederick Saunders
Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous. But to an even greater degree than the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of carelessness, incapacity, or neglect.Anonymous
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
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
Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.George Orwell
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
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.Auguste Rodin
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self - Distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.Amos Bronson Alcott
To find yourself, think for yourself.Socrates, The Apology
A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.Chinua Achebe
