Self Quotes
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.Thomas Jefferson
At sixteen I was stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. At twenty - Five I was wise, self - Confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty - Five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence?Jules Feiffe
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward in my actions and not from them.Hugh Prathe
Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.Judy Garland, to her daughter, Liza Minelli
The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Let a man strive to purify his thoughts. What a man thinketh, that is he this is the eternal mystery. Dwelling within himself with thoughts serene, he will obtain imperishable happiness.Maitri Upanishads
The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self - Evident.Arthur Schopenhaue
There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.George Sarton, History of Science
I hate mankind, for I think of myself as one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.Samuel Johnson
Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, February 2003
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.Rainer Maria Rilke
If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives. Do good anyway.Mother Theresa
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.Bertrand Russell
The man who fights for his fellow - Man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.Clarence Darrow
To establish oneself in the world, one has to do all one can to appear established.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it sparkles in the setting of modest self - Distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive any injury.Author Unknown
Tell no one the secret that you want to keep, although he may be worthy of confidence; for no one will be so careful of your secret as yourself.Saadi, On the Duties of Society
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
Who has confidence in himself will gain the confidene of others.Leib Lazarow
Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee.Thomas Fulle
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
Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.Buddha
No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.Amos Bronson Alcott
The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself - Always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.Bernard M. Baruch
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself... True happiness is born of self - Reliance.The laws of Manu
Each painting has its own way of evolving... When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.William Baziotes
More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.Daniel J. Boorstin
Self - Confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.Samuel Johnson
A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.Samuel Johnson
Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial.Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.Friedrich Nietzsche
What a man thinks of himself that is what determines, or rather indicates his fate.Henry David Thoreau
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.Nathaniel Hawthorne
If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity marry, and perpetuate his kind.Don Marquis
