Self Quotes

James thurbe - the wit makes fun of other persons the satirist...
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
Buddha
I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government but civilization itself.
Gerald R. Ford, Inaugural Address, 9 August 1974
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
Foster C. McClellan
Antoine de saint - exupery, the little prince - you are beautiful, but you are empty. one could...
What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Samuel foote - he is not only dull himself, but the cause of...
The real tradegy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort - He never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.
Arnold Bennett
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self - Respect.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
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
Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.
Mary Cholmondeley
Insist on yourself never imitate... Every great man is unique.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear.
Felix Adle
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
Reggie Leach
History repeats itself and history never repeats itself are about equally trueWe never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.
George Macaulay Trevelyan
Know thyself.
Thales, (The Seven Sages) from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.
John MacNaughton
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Buddha
It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but 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 to lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune.
Samuel Smiles
Ahhh. A man with a sharp wit. Someone ought to take it away from him before he cuts himself.
Peter da Silva
If an artist is not able to commit himself totally to his art, how can he expect the world to do so.
Unknown
The surest way to be deceived is to think oneself cleverer than the others.
La Rochefoucauld
Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.
Plato
Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.
Lord Chesterfield
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - Especially when one is right.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
Jacopo Sannazaro
Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts.
Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics
If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
Alexandre Dumas, fils
Forgive thyself little, and others much.
Leighton
Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.
Alexis Carrel
The pain of a disappointed wish necessarily produces less effect upon the mind if a man has not certainly promised himself success. - De Tranquillitate Animi.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.
John Jay Chapman
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
Thomas Szasz, "The Second Sin".
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
Cynthia Ozick
He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.
Numbers 63 Bible Hebrew
The salary of the chief executive of the large corporations is not an award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm gesture by the individual to himself.
John Kenneth Galbraith
The giving of love is an education in itself.
Roosevelt, Eleano
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
Josh Billings