Self Quotes
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
Instead of solid accomplishments, the man pursues pleasures and self - Gratification. He will never achieve anything so long as he is surrounded by dissipating temptations.I Ching
Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth.Sidney Madwed
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
The real tradegy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort - He never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.Arnold Bennett
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A bird will fall frozen dead from the bow of a ship without ever having felt sorry for itself.D. H. Lawerence
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.George Bernard Shaw
Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.Mary Cholmondeley
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.Josh Billings
He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.Niccolo Machiavelli
The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be.... Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.Wilfred Peterson, This Week (Oct. 1, 1961)
Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it.Thaddeus Golas
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.C. S. Lewis
Pascal keeps your hand tied. C gives you enough rope to hang yourself.Anon.
What is life? It is a flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.Crowfoot
If your house is on fire, warm yourself by it.Danish prove
Fortunately, psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself remains a very effective therapist.Karen Horney
Once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing and from robbing he comes next to drinking and sabbath - Breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.Thamas De Quincey
The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal - - Or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.Elizabeth Peters
None of you truly believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.Muhammad
I paint self - Portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.Frida Kahlo
Book dedication To myself, without whose inspired and tireless efforts this book would not have been possible.Al Jaffee
What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.Roland Barthes, Esprit
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.Mark Twain
As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found - - In himself.Erich Frohm
I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government but civilization itself.Gerald R. Ford, Inaugural Address, 9 August 1974
Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self - Restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.Theodore Roosevelt
If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.Norman Vincent Peale
Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.J. K. Rowling
Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good do good. Be kind be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.Swami Sivanada
An individual cannot know what he is till he has made himself real by action.Unknown
There are pauses amidst study, and even pauses of seeming idleness, in which a process goes on which may be likened to the digestion of food. In those seasons of repose, the powers are gathering their strength for new efforts; as land which lies fallow recovers itself for tillage.J. W. Alexande
We hold these truths to be self - Evident that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.US Declaration of Independence
Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.Thomas a Kempis
If I am not for myself, who is for me But if I am for my own self only, what am I, and if not now, when.Rabbi Hillel
There is always someone worse off than yourself.Aesop
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.Andre Maurois
