Self Quotes
Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself.Liberace
I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles.Anais Nin
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - Especially when one is right.Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - Nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933
Think and feel yourself there! To achieve any aim in life, you need to project the end - Result. Think of the elation, the satisfaction, the joy! Carrying the ecstatic feeling will bring the desired goal into view.Grace Speare
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.David Mamet
The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.I Ching
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
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.Alexander Hamilton
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
He who conquers others is strong He who conquers himself is mighty.Lao Tzu
First make yourself unpopular, then people will take you seriously.Konrad Adenauer, 1876 - 1967
Never expose yourself unnecessarily to danger; a miracle may not save you... and if it does, it will be deducted from your share of luck or merit.The Talmud
Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.Evelyn Underhill
Life itself is neither good nor evil, but only a place for good and evil.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
How can we expect another to keep our secret, if we cannot keep it ourself.La Rochefoucauld
Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself.Ralph Waldo Trine
The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.Dietrich Bonhoeffe
God conceals himself from the mind of man, but reveals himself to his heart.African Prove
Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.William Shakespeare
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
Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.Samuel Johnson
Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.Johnson
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
Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.Judy Garland, to her daughter, Liza Minelli
A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs.William R Allen
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth and truth rewarded me.Simone de Beauvoi
To handle yourself, use your head To handle others, use your heart.Roosevelt, Eleano
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.Mark Caine
The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of Hell and a hell of Heaven.John Milton, Dr. Faustus
What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self - Conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.Epictetus, Discourses
In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.Marechal Ferdinand Foch
If you must hold yourself up to your children, hold yourself up as an object lesson and not as an example.Sir Walter Besant
If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished. Proposal to reform welfare programs.Richard Milhous Nixon
Nothing is easier than self - Deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.Demosthenes, Third Olynthiac
