Self Quotes

Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness: on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming at something else, they find happiness by the way.

John Stuart Mill

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.

Josh Billings

I am a poet. I lock myself in my room with a type writer so I can talk in terms of the world that has put me here.

Eric Pio

There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self.

Demosthenes

He that plants trees loves others besides himself.

English Prove

Self - Esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.

Nathaniel Branden

The only gift is a portion of thyself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have great faith in fools; self - Confidence, my friends call it.

Edgar Allan Poe

Glory built on selfish principles is shame and guilt.

William Cowpe

Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself.

Jean Francois Revel

N. B. Fear itself. See also H. D. Thoreau.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Where there is a will there is a way, is an old and true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement. To think we are able, is almost to be so - To determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.

Samuel Smiles

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

Thomas Jefferson

There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.

Norman Douglas

More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.

Uta Hagan

We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.

Jane Austen

The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself and carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion. It is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion.

Auguste Renoi

Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self - Confidence and your self - Doubt.

Kahlil Gibran

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

David Mamet

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

Mark Twain

Enjoy things which are pleasant; that is not the evil: it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.

Thomas Carlyle

What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.

Carlos Fuentes

The self - Explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Elias Canetti

She had learned the self - Deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and grasping, but her artifices could not always cover the nakedness of her need to excel.

Faith Sullivan, The Cape Ann, 1988

Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.

Theodore Isaac Rubin

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

People feel comfortable around someone who is comfortable with himself.

Clay Aiken, Teen People

It really doesnt matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.

Real Live Preache

Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself.

Bertrand Russell

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

David Viscott

So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 4 scene 5

Accuse not nature, she hath done her partDo thou but thine, and be not diffidentOf wisdom, she deserts thee not, if thouDismiss not her, when most thou needest her nigh, By attributing overmuch to thingsLess excellent, as thou thyself perceivest.

John Milton

When the reviews are bad, I tell myself that they can join me as I cry all the way to the bank.

Liberace

No man is free who is not master of himself.

Epictetus

Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.

Baltasar Gracian

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

Albert Einstein

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge