Self Quotes
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself - And be lenient to everybody else.Henry Ward Beeche
If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self - Direction, and for self - Initiated learning.Carl R. Rogers
Do definite good first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.John Lancaster Spalding
The people that one bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - Bread and circuses.Juvenal
Everyone needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life.Julia T. Alvarez
The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.James Arthur Baldwin
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - And you are the easiest person to fool.Richard Feynman, Caltech commencement address, 1974
Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.Lao Tzu
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.Jose Ortega y Gasset
Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.Samuel Johnson
Greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.Eleanor Roosevelt
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.Oliver Wendell Holmes
It is easy to bring others down to your level, Instead of bringing yourself up to their level, But it is never ever right.Unknown
I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.Augusten Burroughs, Magical Thinking
The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self - Seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Unless you are prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.Orison Swett Marden
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.Sir Winston Churchill
I like less the story that a frog if put in cold water will not bestir itself if that water is heated up slowly and gradually and will in the end let itself be boiled alive, too comfortable with continuity to realize that continuous change at some point may become intolerable and demand a change in behavior.Charles Handy - The Age of Unreason
In your clothes avoid too much gaudiness do not value yourself upon an embroidered gown and remember that a reasonable word, or an obliging look, will gain you more respect than all your fine trappings.Sir George Savile
Life has. taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.Alan Stewart Paton
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
Lord Ronald said nothing he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.Stephen Leacock
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.Andre Maurois
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do, Ohara Publications
Talent is like a faucet while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration - A hoax fabricated by poets for their self - Importance.Jean Anouilh
The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.Grayson Kirk
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.Charles De Gaulle
Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - The world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.Henry Mille
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.Albert Einstein
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
Of course life is bizarre, the more bizarre it gets, the more interesting it is. The only way to approach it is to make yourself some popcorn and enjoy the show.David Gerrold
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.Albert Einstein
To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.Simone de Beauvoi
Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul None is more gladdening or fruitful than to know You can regenerate and make yourself what you will.William James
Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers Love, nightmare - Like, lies heavy on my chest, And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers.William S. Gilbert
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
