Self Quotes
Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self - Governing people.Woodrow Wilson
Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.Chinese Prove
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.Nancy Asto
Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.Sir Walter Raleigh
The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.Gustave Flaubert
We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - - For no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self - Love.William Hazlitt
You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you - - The rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered.Antoine de Saint - Exupery, The Little Prince
Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.Cicero
I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Economy.
You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself.Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life, it is life itself.Henry Havelock Ellis
You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.John Ruskin
Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.Hippocrates, Regimen
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.Plutarch
But true love is a durable fire In the mind ever burning Never sick, never old, never dead From itself never turning.Sir Walter Raleigh
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
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.George Bernard Shaw
I don? t really do New Year? s resolutions because I don? t think you should have to wait until December to start working on how to change yourself. I think if you? ve got a problem, you need to fix it now.Clay Aiken
Judge thyself with the judgment of sincerity, and thou will judge others with the judgment of charity.John Mitchell Mason
A woman of honor should not expect of others things she would not do herself.Marguerite de Valois
No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
There is nothing like returing to a place that remains uncganged to find how you yourself have altered.Nelson Mandela
He who demands mercy and shows none burns the bridges over which he himself must later pass.Thomas Adams
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.Albert Einstein
I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.Oscar Levant
The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself.Noam Chomsky, Ruth Anshen, Biography of an Idea (Mt. Kisco, NY: Moyer Bell Limited, 1986), pg. 196
How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.Publilius Syrus
Habit, my friend, is practice long pursued, that at last becomes man himself.Evenus
The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.Jane Wagne
Self - Respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.John Herschel
The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.Friedrich Nietzsche
The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.Blaine Lee
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
If you sit down at set of sun And count the acts that you have done, And counting find One self - Denying deed, one word That eased the heart of him who heard One glance most kind That fell like sunshine where it went - Then you may count that day well spent.George Eliot
Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself.Jean Francois Revel
A human being is an animal suspended in webs of significance which he himself has spun.Clifford Geertz, "Cultural Anthropology" by Nanda
He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one allows himself to be tamed.Antoine de Saint - Exupery, The Little Prince
