Self Quotes

If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse - As a man shoots himself.

H. L. Mencken

If heaven is going to be full of people like Hardie, well, the Almighty can have them to himself.

Sir Winston Churchill

I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

Walt Whitman

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out.

Judith Rossne

So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.

Francois Rabelais, 1532

A man who works beyond the surface of things, though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way for others and may make even his errors subservient to the cause of truth.

Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Inquiry Into The Origins Of The Sublime And Beatiful.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Alan Watts

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.

Joseph Addison

The greatest productive force is human selfishness.

Robert A. Heinlein

A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only he himself can damage that. His reputations what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity.

John Ballantine Gough

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

Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.

Theodore Isaac Rubin

They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.

John Morley

Somehow he Tim gets thoughtful sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant for them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see.

Charles Dickens

The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.

Charles Dudley Warne

When a proud man hears another praised, he feels himself injured.

English Prove

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

Thomas Jefferson

It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you can make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost....

Richard Bach

You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you - - The rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered.

Antoine de Saint - Exupery, The Little Prince

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of Mankind is Man.

Alexander Pope

Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man.... such a man is a true gentleman.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle is a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifests itself in the form of a feeling.

Nathaniel Brandon

I have great faith in fools - - Self confidence my friends call it.

Edgar Allan Poe

It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.

Eleanor Roosevelt

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

Paul Valery

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

If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished. Proposal to reform welfare programs.

Richard Milhous Nixon

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

Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.

Doris Lessing

The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.

Claude Levi - Strauss

More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.

Daniel J. Boorstin

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 what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Nick Richardson

Do I contradict myself Very well then I contradict myself,

Walt Whitman

I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.

William Harvey

My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.

Robert Browning