Self Quotes
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.Dag Hammarskjld
A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.Robert Burton
Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.Paul Tillich
How can we expect another to keep our secret, if we cannot keep it ourself.La Rochefoucauld
If you feel yourself falling, let go and glide.Steffen Francisco
Do whatever comes your way as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people and other things that are interesting. Put a good deal of thought into happiness that you are able to give.Roosevelt, Eleano
I have impeached myself by resigning.Richard Milhous Nixon
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself - And be lenient to everybody else.Henry Ward Beeche
I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.Kahlil Gibran, The Broken Wings
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.Henry Ward Beeche
A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate.La Rochefoucauld
It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.Salvador Dali
Maturity beings to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.John MacNaughton
That you may retain your self - Respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.William J. H. Boetcke
The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.W. S. Maugham, Of Human Bondage
Pascal keeps your hand tied. C gives you enough rope to hang yourself.Anon.
Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self - Distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.Amos Bronson Alcott
Self - Trust, we know, is the first secret of success.Lady Wilde
If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.Orison Swett Marden
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.Mark Twain
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.Rebecca West
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
By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self - Denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?Jackie Mason
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
The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self - Sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.John Foster Dulles
This coffee plunges into the stomach... the mind is aroused, and ideas pour forth like the battalions of the Grand Army on the field of battle.... Memories charge at full gallop... the light cavalry of comparisons deploys itself magnificently; the artillery of logic hurry in with their train of ammunition; flashes of wit pop up like sharp - Shooters.Honore de Balzac
When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy.Anon.
He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.William Shakespeare
Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.Theodore Isaac Rubin
To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love in order that I may be loved back again, but for the creative joy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at least a little, by the outgoing of love, from enslavement to that most intolerable of master, myself.Bernard Iddings Bell
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 4 scene 5
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself... True happiness is born of self - Reliance.The laws of Manu
The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.Seneca
To be proud of virtue is to poison oneself with the antidote.Benjamin Franklin, ?
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?Rabbi Hillel
