Self Quotes

Knowledge and personality make doubt possible, but knowledge is also the cure of doubt; and when we get a full and adequate sense of personality we are lifted into a region where doubt is almost impossible, for no man can know himself as he is, and all fullness of his nature, without also knowing God.

T. T. Munge

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

Bertrand Russell

God save me from my friends. I can protect myself from my enemies.

Claude Louis Hector de Villars

Do you know what a pessimist is? A person who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself and hates them for it.

George Bernard Shaw

I define comfort as self - Acceptance. When we finally learn that self - Care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.

Jennifer Louden

I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

Groucho Marx

Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.

Josiah Royce

Happiness is a sunbeam, Which may pass through a thousand bosoms Without losing a particle of its original ray Nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, Like the converged light on a mirror, It reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Jane Porte

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

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Aldous Huxley

As I see it, every day you do one of two things build health or produce disease in yourself.

Adelle Davis

I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, and receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.

Woody Allen

Forgive thyself little, and others much.

Leighton

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self - Conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to under - Value them.

Henry James

He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

John Mui

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself - Always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living... a way in which life itself is sheer knowing.

Laurens Van der Post, Venture to the Interior (1951)

The best leader is the one who has the sense to surround himself with outstanding people and self - Restraint not to meddle with how they do their jobs.

Author Unknown

I thank God for my handicaps, for through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.

Hellen Kelle

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction.

Leo Tolstoy

Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.

Welsh Prove

You cannot dream yourself into a character you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

Knowing others is intelligence knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao Tzu

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect he becomes an adolescent the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult the day he forgives himself he becomes wise.

Alden Nowlan

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

Maurice Masterlinck

Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth.

Sidney Madwed

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

Dorothy Law Nolte

Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.

Doris Lessing

Self - Respect is the fruit of discipline the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

Rabbi Abraham Heschel

Life is not meaningful to us unless serving an end beyond itself, unless it is of value to someone else.

Abraham J. Herschel

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

A patient man is one who can put up with himself.

Author Unknown

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

Saint Teresa of Avila