Self Quotes

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

Brenda Ueland

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

Confucius

For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.

Lyste

One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one allows himself to be tamed.

Antoine de Saint - Exupery, The Little Prince

Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.

Alexis Carrel

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward in my actions and not from them.

Hugh Prathe

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

Pope John XXIII

Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self - Praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.

Arnold Bennett

He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying.

Michel de Montaigne

The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.

Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.

Chuang - Tzu, The Great Supreme

Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You cannot get there by bus, only by hard work, risking and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you will discover will be wonderful; yourself.

Alan Alda

Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light.

Baltasar Gracian

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis, Impressions and Comments (1914)

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Oscar Wilde

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time...

Charles Dickens

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.

Miguel de Cervantes

Increase your personal power through positive and powerful communication. Recognize and eliminate negative self talk.

Caterina Rando

To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself.

Henry Miller, The Colossus of Maroussi

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something.

Henry David Thoreau

The greatest productive force is human selfishness.

Robert A. Heinlein

You want to raise your child in such a way that you don? t have to control him, so that he will be in full possession of himself at all times. Upon that depends his good behavior, his health, his sanity.

L. Ron Hubbard, Book: Child Dianetics

They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.

John Morley

Formal education will earn you a living, self - Education make you a fortune.

Unknown

We believe that an artist, in order to be true to himself and his work, must be a free man.

John F. Kennedy, Introducing Pablo Casals at a White House dinner, November 1961, at which he performed publicly for the first t

The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - - That is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

James Thurbe

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

Horace Mann

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction.

Leo Tolstoy

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Helena Rubinstein

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly... spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.

Susan Taylo

To conquer others is to have power, to conquer yourself is to know the way.

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

Sir Richard F. Burton

Wherever a set of alternative possible routes toward achieving a given end presents itself, a student movement will tend to choose the one which involves a higher measure of violence or humiliation directed against the older generation.

Lewis S Feue

Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.

Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu

I have impeached myself by resigning.

Richard Milhous Nixon