Self Quotes

J. arthur lewis - do you ever sit down and wonder what is wrong...
Everyone is in business for himself, for he is selling his services, labor or ideas. Until one realizes that this is true he will not take conscious charge of his life and will always be looking outside himself for guidance.
Sidney Madwed
If you must hold yourself up to your children, hold yourself up as an object lesson and not as an example.
Sir Walter Besant
He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.
William Shakespeare
You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.
Beryl Markham
The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself... The act of voting is in itself the defining moment.
Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Democracy in America, 1992
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
Josh Billings
Martha beck, o magazine, growing wings, january 2004 - any transition serious enough to alter your...
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself".
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
Quintilian
Each bird loves to hear himself sing.
Arapaho Prove
I knew a man who gave up smoking, drinking, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.
Johnny Carson, people magazine special issue
The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.
Rita Mae Brown, Venus Envy
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
Sir Francis Bacon
Ask yourself Have you been kind today Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.
Annie Lennox
Fortunately, psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself remains a very effective therapist.
Karen Horney
The opinions we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself.
Marcel Proust
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self - Control. Against such things, there is no law.
The Apostle Paul (Saul of Tarsus), The Bible - Galations 5: 22 - 23 NIV
The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.
Giovanni Ruffini
to be yourself in a world that is doing its best, day and night to make you like everybody else - - Is to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight.
E. e. cummings
The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - - Making it possible to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.
Susan Sontag
Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be a blessing or a heavy burden?
Alfred A. Montapert
How anybody dresses is indicative of his self - Concept. If students are dirty and ragged, it indicates they are not interested in tidying up their intellects either.
S Hayakawa
The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man and without this all other education is good for nothing.
R. D. Hitchcock
May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.
Voltaire
We have to remember that what we observe is not nature in itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
Werner Heisenberg
Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself.
Jean Francois Revel
Never esteem anything as an advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self - Respect.
Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Where talent is a dwarf, self - Esteem is a giant.
J. Petit - Senn
Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.
Juvenal
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
Benjamin Franklin
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Arthur Brisbane
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do, Ohara Publications
Talent is like a faucet while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration - A hoax fabricated by poets for their self - Importance.
Jean Anouilh
Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
G. C. Lichtenberg
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
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
Anna Freud
Learn to limit yourself, to content yourself with some definite thing, and some definite work; dare to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not and to believe in your own individuality.
Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others with out getting a few drops on yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson