Self Quotes

Augustine birrell - any ordinary man can... surround himself with two...
Socrates, the apology - to find yourself, think for yourself....
Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.
Sir Walter Raleigh
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
Sir Francis Bacon
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
Charlie Chaplin
Johnson himself turned out to be so many different characters he could have populated all of War and Peace and still had a few people left over.
Herbert Mitgang
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.
Giovanni Ruffini
To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love in order that I may be loved back again, but for the creative joy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at least a little, by the outgoing of love, from enslavement to that most intolerable of master, myself.
Bernard Iddings Bell
The planting of trees is the least self - Centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.
Thornton
To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.
Simone Weil
John owen - mortification from a self - strength, carried on...
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
The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.
Jane Wagne
Get into the habit of asking yourself if what you are doing can be handled by someone else.
Author Unknown
If you feel yourself falling, let go and glide.
Steffen Francisco
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
Educate your children to self - Control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
Benjamin Franklin
Self - Love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing people a favor, and vise versa.
Dr. Karl A. Menninge
He is a self - Made man, very much in love with his creator.
Benjamin Disraeli
My business is not to remake myself, But make the absolute best of what God made.
Robert Browning
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
Benjamin Franklin
Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood.
Louise Beal
Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
Kahlil Gibran
Do you want to be a power in the world Then be yourself.
Ralph Waldo Trine
It is impossible to better yourself if you do not know what it means to be better.
Unknown
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
Alan Ashley - Pitt
That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In the act of destruction, man sets himself above life he transcends himself as a creature. Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate.
Erich Fromm
Friendship without self - Interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
James F. Byrnes
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
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
Saint Teresa of Avila
I have found it difficult to endear myself to those who could best positively affect the quality of my life.
Eli Khamarov
I celebrate myself, and sing myself.
Walt Whitman, Song of Myself, 1855
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
Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self - Love.
Francois de Fenelon
It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
Betty Friedan
Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
You cannot teach a man anything. you can only help him to find it for himself.
Galileo Galilei
Fear is nothing except a drain of energy and Not a power unto itself. Trust in yourself, For therein lies the true power.
Unknown
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - In firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Seneca