Self Quotes
It is against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self - Critical?Alan Perlis
We are more wicked together than separately. If you are forced to be in a crowd, then most of all you should withdraw into yourself.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.Albert Camus
The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.Henry Mille
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.Mahatma Gandhi
Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary monetary matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.William Cobbett
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness to an opponent, tolerance to a friend, your heart to your child, a good example to a father, deference to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you to yourself, respect to all men, charity.Francis Maitland Balfou
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self - Complacent is erroneous - - On the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. It is failure that makes people bitter and cruel.W. Somerset Maugham
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die and do not outlive yourself.George Bernard Shaw
If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self - Respect will you compel others to respect you.Fyodor Dostoevsky
We are survival machines - Robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.Richard Dawkings:, "The Selfish Gene".
I hate mankind, for I think of myself as one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.Samuel Johnson
The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself.James Thurbe
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.Thomas Jefferson
Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.John Sturart Mill, Defence of Hedonism
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.George Sand
I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there.Fred Allen
The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.Stephen Nachmanovitch
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.Epictetus
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.Mark Twain
It is the action of an uninstructed person to reproach others for his own misfortune; of one entering instruction, to reproach himself; and one perfectly instructed, to reproach neither others nor himself.Epictetus, Enchiridion
A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.Jeanne - Marie Roland
When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.Edith Hamilton
The idea of an incarnation of God is absurd: why should the human race think itself so superior to bees, ants, and elephants as to be put in this unique relation to its maker? . . Christians are like a council of frogs in a marsh or a synod of worms on a dung - Hill croaking and squeaking for our sakes was the world created.Julian the Apostate
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.Sarah Bernhardt
You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.Beryl Markham
There are two ways of meeting difficulties You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.Phyllis Bottome
Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You cannot get there by bus, only by hard work, risking and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you will discover will be wonderful; yourself.Alan Alda
What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.Roland Barthes, Esprit
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.Albert Camus
I believe that to meet the challenge of the next century, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. Each of us must learn to work not just for his or her own self, family or nation, but for the benefit of all mankind.His Holiness the Dalai Lama, speech? in 1994
I speak BASIC to clients, 1 - 2 - 3 to management, and mumble to myself.Anon.
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.John Milton
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist, section 2
A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.Voltaire
History repeats itself historians repeat each other.Philip Guedalla
There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.Proverbs 137 Bible
