Self Quotes
When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.Antoine De Saint - Exupery
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.Josh Billings
I do not know what I may appear to the world but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.Isaac Newton
Increase your personal power through positive and powerful communication. Recognize and eliminate negative self talk.Caterina Rando
He who despises himself nevertheless esteems himself as a self - Despiser.Friedrich Nietzsche
It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.Charles Dudley
If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself. Minquass.American Indian Prove
He that plants trees loves others besides himself.English Prove
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.Albert Einstein
It could be said that the AIDS pandemic is a classic own - Goal scored by the human race against itself.Anne
God, I offer myself to Thee, to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy power, Thy love and Thy way of life. May I do Thy will always. Amen.Alcoholics Anonymous Praye
For want of self - Restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross - Grained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self - Control.Smiles
He who fights monsters should look into it that he himself does not become a monster. When you gaze long into the Abyss, the Abyss also gazes into you.Friedrich Neitzsche
Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide he exposes himself.Jeanne Moreau
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - And you are the easiest person to fool.Richard Feynman, Caltech commencement address, 1974
If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.Norman Vincent Peale
Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences of life.Gottfried Reinhardt
One must really have suffered oneself to help others.Mother Theresa
Do definite good first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.John Lancaster Spalding
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress but I repeat myself.Mark Twain
Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self - Praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.Arnold Bennett
Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.Evelyn Underhill
No man is wise enough by himself.Titus Maccius Plautus, Miles Gloriosus
Courage consists of the power of self - Recovery.Julie Arabi
Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.Albert Einstein
Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.Joseph Addison
When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness. To seek treasures where there is only trash... Too much sanity may be madness, and maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.Miguel De Cervantes, Don Quixote de la Mancha
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
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.Buddha
A man without justice is a beast, and a man who would make himself a beast forgets the pain of being a man.Timothy Leary
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.Sir Richard F. Burton
It is a base thing to look to others for your defense instead of depending upon yourself. That defense alone is effectual, sure, and durable which depends upon yourself and your own valor.Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self - Evident.Arthur Schopenhaue
Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self - Respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.Thomas Huxley
What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.Publilius Syrus
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.Charles De Gaulle