Self Quotes

The academic mind can eat away the very basis of its own assurance... produce contortions when it tries to bend over backward... allow itself to be dismayed by the picture it has created of relentless historical process.

Herbert Butterfield

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself lying to others is relatively an exception.

Hietzsche

God conceals himself from the mind of man, but reveals himself to his heart.

African Prove

I said to myself that growing up really means slowing down.

Siri Hustvedt, What I Loved, pg. 336

I have lost the half of myself? a soul for which mine was made.

Voltaire

He is not laughed at who laughs at himself first.

Thomas Fulle

So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.

Francois Rabelais, 1532

I believe this nation should commit itself, to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.

John F. Kennedy, in a speech on May 25, 1961

To establish oneself in the world, one has to do all one can to appear established.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God is himself mad.

R. D. Laing

It is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self - Consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since mathematics, in its own way, also performs this function, it is not only aesthetically charming but profoundly significant. It is an art, and a great art.

John W. N. Sullivan

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Benjamin Franklin

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

Arthur Mille

Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say to myself, Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.

Lillian

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self - Interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self - Love, and never talk to them of our own neccessities but of their advantages.

Adam Smith

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

Money is human happiness in the abstract he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

Arthur Schopenhaue

You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.

Florida Scott - Maxwell, Oprah Magazine, May 2004

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

Amelia Earhart

If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself. Minquass.

American Indian Prove

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

Charlie Chaplin

More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.

Amy Grant

One must really have suffered oneself to help others.

Mother Theresa

Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.

Betty Friedan

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

Aldous Huxley

It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain and some of our griefs... have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all.

Miguel de Cervantes

In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Marechal Ferdinand Foch

If a child lives with approval, he learns to live with himself.

Dorothy Law Nolte

He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.

George Herbert

Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.

Joel Hawes

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

J. K. Rowling

But true love is a durable fire In the mind ever burning Never sick, never old, never dead From itself never turning.

Sir Walter Raleigh

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell.

Edna St. Vincent Millay, Letters, 1952

Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.

Samuel Johnson

When an American says that he loves his country, he... means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self - Respect.

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

If I ever reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there first, to meet some I had not thought to see there second, to miss some I had expected to see there and third, the greatest wonder of all, to find myself there.

John Newton