Self Quotes
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.Kurt Vonnegut
I have a cat named Trash. In the current political climate it would seem that if I were trying to sell him at least to a Computer Scientist, I would not stress that he is gentle to humans and is self - Sufficient, living mostly on field mice. Rather, I would argue that he is object - Oriented.Roger King
My business is not to remake myself, But make the absolute best of what God made.Robert Browning
The greatest productive force is human selfishness.Robert A. Heinlein
Real love is a permanently self - Enlarging experience.M. Scott Peck, O Magazine, February 2004
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.Marcus Aurelius
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.Leo Tolstoy
The way to final freedom is within thy self.The Book of the Golden Precepts
The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self - Respect, dignity, integrity, and self - Esteem.Dr. Laura Schlessinge
Think highly of yourself, for the world takes you at your own estimate.Author Unknown
He who is sorrowful can force himself to smile, but he who is glad cannot weep.Selma Lagerloef
The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.Roger Banniste
It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest; better to lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune.Samuel Smiles
As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.Leonardo DaVinci
When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray
You can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search.Maxwell Maltz
The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.Pauline Kael
He that plants trees loves others beside himself.Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.Alec Waugh
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self - Respect.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.Confucius
When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.W. H. Auden
When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself.Luigi Pirandello
He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.Lord Herbert
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.Samuel Johnson
A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self - Addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.Ring Lardner, "How to Write Short Stories".
Self - Pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.John W. Gardne
The mayor gave no other answer than that deep guttural grunt which is technically known in municipal interviews as refusing to commit oneself.Stephen Butler Leacock
You grow up the day you have your first real laugh - - At yourself.Ethel Barrymoore
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.Franz Kafka
I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.Groucho Marx
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.Scott Adams
But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II Scene 6
I hate mankind, for I think of myself as one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.Samuel Johnson
I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.Joseph Baretti
Friendship with oneself is all - Important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.Eleanor Roosevelt
The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall to - Day be uppermost.Confucius
