Self Quotes
Washington is like a self - Sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.Dean Acheson (1893 - 1971)
What we won when all of our people united... must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. ... Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.Lyndon B. Johnson
I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there.Fred Allen
The real tradegy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort - He never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.Arnold Bennett
We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.Lloyd Alexande
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.Woodrow Wilson
The surest way to be deceived is to think oneself cleverer than the others.La Rochefoucauld
You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.Beryl Markham
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.Abraham Maslow
If I ever reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there first, to meet some I had not thought to see there second, to miss some I had expected to see there and third, the greatest wonder of all, to find myself there.John Newton
If you turn your back on these people, you yourself are an animal. You may be a well - Dressed animal, but you are nevertheless an animal.Edward Irving Koch
Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.Jose Ortega y Gasset
Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.Doris Lessing
The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.Wystan Hugh Auden
Friendship without self - Interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.James F. Byrnes
Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our lives.Sri Madhava
Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.Rita Mae Brown
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.Robert Louis Stevenson
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.George Sand
A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate.La Rochefoucauld
Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.Dame Edna Everage, In a television interview with Joan Rivers
The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self - Sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.John Foster Dulles
It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self - Conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to under - Value them.Henry James
I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - If I can remember any of the damn things.Dorothy Parke
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
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.Og Mandino
A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service.Georges Pomidou
The academic mind can eat away the very basis of its own assurance... produce contortions when it tries to bend over backward... allow itself to be dismayed by the picture it has created of relentless historical process.Herbert Butterfield
Fear is nothing except a drain of energy and Not a power unto itself. Trust in yourself, For therein lies the true power.Unknown
I check myself every day just to make sure this is the same person.Tony Kanal
He who allows himself to be insulted, deserves to be.Pierre Corneille
Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.Robert Bolt
Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.Alfred North Whitehead
Formal education will make you a living self - Education will make you a fortune.Jim Rohn
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.Mahatma Gandhi
Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.Niels Henrik David Boh
Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream - A scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows - Is essentially poetry.Jesse Louis Jackson
