Self Quotes
Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.Samuel Johnson
Insist on yourself; never imitate... Every great man is unique.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rather do what is nothing in the purpose than to be idle, that the devil may find thee doing. The bird that sits is easily shot when the fliers escape the fowler. Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all the virtues, and is the self - Made sepulcher of a living man.Francis Quarles
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
I began by telling the president that there was a cancer growing on the presidency and that if the cancer was not removed... the president himself would be killed by it.John Dean
I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.Oscar Levant
Language exists only on the surface of our consciousness. The great human struggles are played out in silence and in the ability to express oneself.Franz Xavier Kroetz
Magic is believing in yourself. If you can do that, you can make anything happen.Foka Gomez
Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God is himself mad.R. D. Laing
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.Quintilian
Self - Respect is the fruit of discipline the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.Rabbi Abraham Heschel
Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money is human happiness in the abstract he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.Arthur Schopenhaue
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand.Woodrow Wilson
Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside yourself.Jacob Bigelow
No one can give you better advice than yourself.Marcus Tullius Cicero
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
Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
Self - Confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.Samuel Johnson
Adventure is worthwhile in itself.Amelia Earhart
To expect defeat is nine - Tenths of defeat itself.Francis Crawford
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die and do not outlive yourself.George Bernard Shaw
The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master - Something that at time strangely wills and works for itself.Charlotte Bronte
To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love in order that I may be loved back again, but for the creative joy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at least a little, by the outgoing of love, from enslavement to that most intolerable of master, myself.Bernard Iddings Bell
Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.Iris Murdoch
You must be willing to protect yourself and what you cherish, no matter what the cost.Christopher Paolini, Author of Eragon and Eldest. Quote from Eragon.
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?Jane Austen
When you start to doubt yourself, the real world will eat you alive.Henry Rollins, From his song "Shine".
He who despises himself nevertheless esteems himself as a self - Despiser.Friedrich Nietzsche
There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers - By see only a wisp of smoke.Vincent Van Gogh
The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.... God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.Pierre Charron
Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.Ecclesiastes
No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.A. A. Milne
Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self - Solicitude is the enemy of well - Being.John Updike
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
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
