Self Quotes
Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure.Joseph Sugarman
Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self - Solicitude is the enemy of well - Being.John Updike
Ahhh. A man with a sharp wit. Someone ought to take it away from him before he cuts himself.Peter da Silva
Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.Jean Jacques Rousseau
Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.Thomas a Kempis
Blessed are they who heal you of self - Despisings. Of all services which can be done to man, I know of none more precious.William Hale White
The vain man is generally a doubter. It is Newton who sees himself as child on the sea shore, and his discoveries in the colored shell.Willmott
He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Wine makes a man more pleased with himself I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.Samuel Johnson
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
No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.Amos Bronson Alcott
The world is full of fools and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking - Glass.Nicolas Boileau
Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.Chinese Prove
It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one but the 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 lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune...Samuel Smiles
Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - They bear no fruit.Francis Marion
When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.Confucious
You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.Beryl Markham
Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it sparkles in the setting of modest self - Distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive any injury.Author Unknown
Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.H. L. Mencken
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
Rigidly organized pre - School classrooms, which value obedience more than development, create the deficits in poor children, imposing a self - Image of marginality and failure.Valerie Polakow
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
Maturity beings to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.John MacNaughton
Self - Respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.H. L. Mencken
The wise should surrender speech in mind, mind in the knowing self, the knowing self in the Spirit of the universe, and the Spirit of the universe in the Spirit of peace.Maitri Upanishads
I count him braver who conquers his desires than him who conquers his enemies for the hardest victort is the victory over self.Aristotle
I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast. After she was pelted with eggs during a walkabout on New Zealand visit.Elizabeth II
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.Mark Twain
You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.Ethel Barrymore
Have no friends not equal to yourself.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Are you bored with life Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.Dale Carnegie
Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.Eleanor Roosevelt
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.C. S. Lewis
The only gift is a portion of thyself.Ralph Waldo Emerson
We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - - For no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self - Love.William Hazlitt
Modesty and unselfishness - - These are the virtues which men praise - - And pass by.Andr Maurois
