Self Quotes
The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others it is in yourself alone.Orison Swett Marden
He that plants trees loves others beside himself.Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.Kahlil Gibran
First mend yourself, and then mend others.Jewish Prove
I have found it difficult to endear myself to those who could best positively affect the quality of my life.Eli Khamarov
The opinions we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself.Marcel Proust
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.Elisabeth Kuebler - Ross
Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.Jesse Stuart
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.Isaac Newton, From Brewster, Memoirs of Newton (1855)
I think that their flight from and hatred of technology is self - Defeating. The Buddha rests quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer of the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha - - which is to demean oneself.Robert M. Pursig, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance".
The self is not something ready - Made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.John Dewey
Better keep yourself clean and bright you are the window through which you must see the world.George Bernard Shaw
Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he Who finds himself, loses his misery.Matthew Arnold
The only thing to fear is fear itself.Franklin D. Roosevelt
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
The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless. The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.William Franklin Billy Graham
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
No good poem, however confessional is may be, is just a self - Expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?Robert Cecil Day Lewis
As a matter of self - Preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.Diogenes
Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle is a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifests itself in the form of a feeling.Nathaniel Brandon
Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.Josiah Royce
We hold these truths to be self - Evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments a.Thomas Jefferson
I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.Richard Milhous Nixon
If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself.John Milton
It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to be kind to another, without helping himself.Bailey
A woman of honor should not expect of others things she would not do herself.Marguerite de Valois
All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself, and never mind the rest.Beatrix Potte
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.Pope John Paul II
Of all the communities available to us there is not one I would want to devote myself to, except for the society of the true searchers, which has very few living members at any time.Albert Einstein
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.Joaquin Setanti
My main hope for myself is to be where I am.Woody Harrelson
Defining consultancy is a bit like defining the upper class every possible candidate draws the line just below himself.John Peet
He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.Karl Kraus
May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.Voltaire
Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.Plato
For the sake of peace one may lie, but peace itself should never be a lie.The Talmud
