Self Quotes

Neil gaiman, good omens - when he stood up, it was a very complicated...
Douglas macarthu - build me a son, o lord, who will be strong enough...
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
When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
Isaac Bashevis Singe
More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin
The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.
Cicero
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self - Respect.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
Without absolutes revealed from without by God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas about manners, justice and right and wrong, issuing from a multitude of self - Opinionated thinkers.
John Owen
The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall to - Day be uppermost.
Confucius
Johann wolfgang von goethe - as soon as you trust yourself, you will know how...
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
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
Marcus Garvey
First say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have to do.
Epictetus
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
Charlie Chaplin
Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.
Lord Chesterfield
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself".
A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.
Henry Ward Beeche
As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.
Joseph Conrad
It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self - Improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.
Vartan Gregorian
Character develops itself in the stream of life.
Johann von Goethe
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
It was when Lucifer first congratulated himself upon his angelic behavior that he became the tool of evil.
Dag Hammarskjld
Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
Iris Murdoch
The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.
Stephen Nachmanovitch
Look well into thyself there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Egotist a person more interested in himself than in me.
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself.
Liberace
To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.
David Viscott
Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering you own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - Every day begin the task anew.
Saint Francis de Sales
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
Benjamin Spock
Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.
Ben Stein
He who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself.
John Milton
Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self - Righteous isolation.
John Dewey
When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer - Say traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep - It is on such occasions that my ideas flow best, and most abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not, nor can I force them...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The pain of a disappointed wish necessarily produces less effect upon the mind if a man has not certainly promised himself success. - De Tranquillitate Animi.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know that there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.
Albert Camus
If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself.
John Milton
Do not try to fight a lion if you are not one yourself.
African Prove
Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.
Alice James