Self Quotes

A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.
Vince Lombardi
Walt whitman - i say that democracy can never prove itself...
Kurt vonnegut, jr. - laughter and tears are both responses to...
Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.
Tom Hopkins
In jealousy there is more of self - Love, than of love to another.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.
Ausonius
Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.
Samuel Johnson
I have no help to send, therefore I must go myself.
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
He alone is wise who can accommodate himself to all contingencies of life; but the fool contends, and struggling, like a swimmer, against the stream.
Latin
Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
Do not try to fight a lion if you are not one yourself.
African Prove
If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse - As a man shoots himself.
H. L. Mencken
Saint basil - do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it...
Practice yourself what you preach.
Titus Maccius Plautus, Asinaria
If I am not for myself, who is for me But if I am for my own self only, what am I, and if not now, when.
Rabbi Hillel
The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself.
James Thurbe
I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me.
Anwar el - Sadat
Self - Esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self - Esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
Bette Midle
Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place.
Jennifer Aniston
A friend is a present you give yourself.
Robert Louis Stevenson
The sage wears clothes of coarse cloth but carries jewels in his bosom He knows himself but does not display himself He loves himself but does not hold himself in high esteem.
Lao Tzu
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
All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self - Evident.
Arthur Schopenhaue
Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.
Jane Wagne
Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.
Francis Quarles
The world itself is the will to power - And nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - And nothing else!
Friedrich Nietzsche, "The Will to Power".
I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.
Marcus Aelius Aurelius
They say that time changes things, but actually you have to change them yourself.
Andy Warhol
Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber.
Ugo Betti
Think and feel yourself there! To achieve any aim in life, you need to project the end - Result. Think of the elation, the satisfaction, the joy! Carrying the ecstatic feeling will bring the desired goal into view.
Grace Speare
Self - Respect is the fruit of discipline the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
Rabbi Abraham Heschel
The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - - Making it possible to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.
Susan Sontag
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
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
Benjamin Franklin
I give myself, sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
Mary Montagu
People are unreasonable, illogical, and self - Centered. Love them anyway.
Mother Theresa
Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things First, a dissatisfaction with self - A felt void or need second, a decision to change - To fill the void or need and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change - The willful act of making the change Doing Something.
Dr.
A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - That is myself.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, "Meditations", book 2.
Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.
Annie Lennox