Self Quotes
In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.Marechal Ferdinand Foch
What a man thinks of himself that is what determines, or rather indicates his fate.Henry David Thoreau
Man is always more than he can know of himself consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.Golo Mann
The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self - Activity.Thomas Carlyle
Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself.Ralph Waldo Trine
It is the highest form of self - Respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.Dr. Dale E. Turne
Knowing others is intelligence knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.Lao Tzu
He that plants trees loves others besides himself.English Prove
How can we expect another to keep our secret, if we cannot keep it ourself.La Rochefoucauld
If you have a brain in your head and feet in your shoes, you can steer youeself in any direction you choose.Dr. Seuss
For the sake of peace one may lie, but peace itself should never be a lie.The Talmud
Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.Sir Thomas Browne
Experience is an asset of which no worker can be cheated, no matter how selfish or greedy his immediate employer may be.Napolean Hill
Always be a first - Rate version of yourself, instead of a second - Rate version of somebody else.Judy Garland
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.Reggie Leach
Look at the bow in the cloud, in the very rain itself. That is a sign that the sun, though you cannot see it, is shining still - - That up above beyond the cloud is still sunlight and warmth and cloudless blue sky.Charles Kingsley
Knowledge and personality make doubt possible, but knowledge is also the cure of doubt; and when we get a full and adequate sense of personality we are lifted into a region where doubt is almost impossible, for no man can know himself as he is, and all fullness of his nature, without also knowing God.T. T. Munge
Formal education will earn you a living, self - Education make you a fortune.Unknown
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight, very clean. When it arrives it is perfect. It puts itself in our hands. It hopes we learned something from yesterday.Unknown, Epitaph on headstone of actor John Wayne (author unknown)
To be nobody - But - Yourself - - In a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - - Means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.E e cummings
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
If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death.Sigmund Freud, his essay on war & death
If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.Confucius
There will be a time when loud - Mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails.Richard Rybolt
Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings essential to success.John McDonald
So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 4 scene 5
I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.Franz Kafka
He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.Friedrich Nietzsche
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
I hate mankind, for I think of myself as one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.Samuel Johnson
The root of fear is the death of yourself or someone you care about, but this will inevitably happen since we are only mortal, so why fea.Unknown
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving.Albert Einstein
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
No man ever listened himself out of a job.Calvin Coolidge
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self - Complacent is erroneous - - On the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. It is failure that makes people bitter and cruel.W. Somerset Maugham
I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
