Self Quotes
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.Calvin Coolidge
A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.Seneca
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
One must not be mean with the affections what is spent of the fund is renewed in the spending itself.Sigmund Freud
Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self - Knowledge if you explore them.Marilyn Ferguson
Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.Theodore Isaac Rubin
A patient man is one who can put up with himself.Author Unknown
Forgive many things in others nothing in yourself.Ausonius
If you had it all to do over, would you fall in love with yourself again?Author Unknown
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.Frederick Douglas
To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.Simone Weil
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.James A. Froude
Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed: for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess.Rene Descartes, Discourse on Method
Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.Jesse Stuart
Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.George Orwell
Never violate the sacredness of your individual self - Respect.Theodore Parke
I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God.Sufi Prove
There are three classes of intellects one which comprehends by itself another which appreciates what others comprehend and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others the first is the most excellent, the second is good, and the third is useless.Niccolo Machiavelli
When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.Antoine De Saint - Exupery
That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust.Gustave Flaubert, 1, 911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said
Self - Reverence, self knowledge, self - Control. These three alone lead life to sovereign power.Lord Tennyson
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.George Bernard Shaw
Preparation is not the enemy of success, but a dear friend. Be good to yourself and the favor will return.Samuel Cunningham
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - And you are the easiest person to fool.Richard Feynman, Caltech commencement address, 1974
The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of this world is not to have and to hold but to give and serve. There can be no other meaning.Sir Wilfred T. Grenfell
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.Paul Valery
The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of benevolence and love to men.John Randolph
I define comfort as self - Acceptance. When we finally learn that self - Care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.Jennifer Louden
In all the work we do, our most valuable asset can be the attitude of self - Examination. It is forgivable to make mistakes, but to stand fast behind a wall of self - Righteousness and make the same mistake twice is not forgivable.Dr. Dale E. Turne
The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.Claude Levi - Strauss
There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know these things.Hal Borland
The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.James Arthur Baldwin
On the touchstone of misfortune a man discovers the strength of understanding and of spirit in kinsmen, wife, servants, and himself.The Hitopadesa
Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.Thomas Hobbes
A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more. Nobody is going to win a 5, 000 meter race after running an easy 2 miles. Not with me. If I lose forcing the pace all the way, well, at least I can live with myself.Steve Prefontaine
I have great faith in fools - - Self confidence my friends call it.Edgar Allan Poe
