Self Quotes

If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.

Charles Schwa

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self - Restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Theodore Roosevelt

No one but a theorist believes his theory; everyone puts faith in a laboratory result but the experimenter himself.

Albert Einstein, quoted in Scientific American, September 2004, page 69

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

Saint Teresa of Avila

I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cut - Throat, competitive world in which I spent my life.

Anthony Perkins

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

Josh Billings

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

John Dean

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

J. Krishnamarti

Help thyself, and God will help thee.

Jean de La Fontaine

Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.

Johann von Goethe

I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.

William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.

Elie Wiesel, Chicago Sun - Times, November 5, 2001

An individual cannot know what he is till he has made himself real by action.

Unknown

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

True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.

Voltaire

You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.

Plato, Dialogues, Theatetus

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

Jessamyn West

Conventionality is not morality. Self - Righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

Charlotte Bronte

I look at my myself and see a stone, I look at my friends and see gold, But I look at you, and see a gem.

Unknown

Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.

Anthony Robbins

We are survival machines - Robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.

Richard Dawkings:, "The Selfish Gene".

Courage consists of the power of self - Recovery.

Julie Arabi

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

Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

Mark Twain

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Samuel Johnson

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight, very clean. When it arrives it is perfect. It puts itself in our hands. It hopes we learned something from yesterday.

Unknown, Epitaph on headstone of actor John Wayne (author unknown)

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills.

Kahlil Gibran

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself First, what could I do Second, what could I read And third, who could I ask.

Jim Rohn

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Do you want to be a power in the world Then be yourself.

Ralph Waldo Trine

Self - Confidence is something caught and not taught. And, risk - Running and chance - Taking are the only ways to catch it.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.

Robert Burton

Know thyself, said the old philosopher, improve thyself, saith the new. Our great object in time is not to waste our passions and gifts on the things external that we must leave behind, but that we cultivate within us all that we can carry into the eternal progress beyond.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

Ful wys is he that can himselven knowe Very wise is he that can know himself.

Geoffrey Chauce