Self Quotes

Tom gates - that we can comprehend the little we know already...
Voltaire - this agglomeration which was called and which...
Audrey giorgi - once in a while you have to take a break and...
I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.
Mohandas Ghandi
Hope itself is a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.
Samuel Johnson
I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast. After she was pelted with eggs during a walkabout on New Zealand visit.
Elizabeth II
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
Practice yourself what you preach.
Titus Maccius Plautus, Asinaria
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
Norman Vincent Peale
You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice.
Ursula Le Guin
If you must hold yourself up to your children, hold yourself up as an object lesson and not as an example.
Sir Walter Besant
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, although it is apt to fill a man with wind and self - Righteousness.
Sir Robert Hutchison
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
Hunter S. Thompson
The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self - Respect, dignity, integrity, and self - Esteem.
Dr. Laura Schlessinge
To understand is to forgive, even oneself.
Alexander Chase
I count him braver who conquers his desires than him who conquers his enemies for the hardest victort is the victory over self.
Aristotle
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.
Andrew Carnegie
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".
It is by no means self - Evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.
Thomas Elliot
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
Henry Ward Beeche
Creation is a better means of self - Expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.
Vida D. Scudde
All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
It is noble to teach oneself, but still nobler to teach others - - And less trouble. - Speech, 1906.
Mark Twain
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
Nancy Asto
Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself.
Ralph Waldo Trine
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
They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.
Sir Thomas More, Utopia
Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
Samuel Johnson
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
Alan Watts
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.
Josh Billings
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world.
Thomas Carlyle
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
Andre Maurois
Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? - A hoax fabricated by poets for their self - Importance.
Jean Anouilh
Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.
Jimmy Carte
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
Gustave Flaubert
If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up, that is exactly what you will be.
Robert Collie
The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self - Respect permeates every aspect of your life.
Joe Clark
Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
J. K. Rowling
The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
Friedrich Nietzsche