Self Quotes
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
C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.Bjarne Stroustrup
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live.Oscar Wilde
Educate your children to self - Control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.Benjamin Franklin
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.Kurt Vonnegut
The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.Mark Twain
Your purpose in relationships is simply to be your best self, regardless of the circumstances.Rosalene Glickman, Ph. D., Optimal Thinking: How to Be Your Best Self
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.James Thurber, in Edward R. Murrow television interview
Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.Annie Lennox
Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain it only means that he is hopelessly self - Absorbed.Leo C. Rosten
There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.La Bruyere
He who demands mercy and shows none burns the bridges over which he himself must later pass.Thomas Adams
The true fanatic is a theocrat, someone who sees himself as acting on behalf of some super personal force the Race, the Party, History, the proletariat, the Poor, and so on. These absolve him from evil, hence he may safely do anything in their service.Lord Billingsley
Language exists only on the surface of our consciousness. The great human struggles are played out in silence and in the ability to express oneself.Franz Xavier Kroetz
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.Thomas Carruthers
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.Johann von Goethe
First mend yourself, and then mend others.Jewish Prove
Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.Ben Stein
Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.Chinese Prove
Few are agreeable in conversation, because each thinks of what he intends to say than of what others are saying, and listens no more when he himself has a chance to speak.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life, it is life itself.Henry Havelock Ellis
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self - Righteousness.Sir Robert Hutchinson
He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.Lao Tzu
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.Froude
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.Albert Einstein
Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.Eric Hoffe
A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.Jeanne - Marie Roland
Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.Nancy Kerrigan
I speak BASIC to clients, 1 - 2 - 3 to management, and mumble to myself.Anon.
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.Amy Lowell
Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed.Solomon Short
If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me - Nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - But I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.John Keats, Letter to Fanny Brawne, Feb 1820 - Died 1 year late
A man, to be greatly good, must magine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and in many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.Percy Bysshe Shelley
Boldness in itself is genius.L. Ron Hubbard
When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer - Say traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep - It is on such occasions that my ideas flow best, and most abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not, nor can I force them...Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.Seneca
To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.Sylvia Plath, The Bell Ja
