Self Quotes
The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.Robert Ingersoll
Judge thyself with the judgment of sincerity, and thou will judge others with the judgment of charity.John Mitchell Mason
The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.C. S. Lewis
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.Robert Anson Heinlein
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
As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self - Destroying.Arthur C. Clarke
One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.Blaise Pascal
When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.Oscar Wilde, Jack from The Importance of Being Earnest
The whole object of comedy is to be yourself and the closer you get to that, the funnier you will be.Jerry Seinfeld
Self - Pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.John W. Gardne
To be proud of virtue is to poison oneself with the antidote.Benjamin Franklin, ?
It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self - Centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self - Reliance
When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there... now instead of then.Blaise Pascal
Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.James A. Garfield
The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action. There is no fixed teaching. All I can provide is an appropriate medicine for a particular ailment.Bruce Lee, Quotation from the book: (The Art of Jeet Kune Do) by Bruce Lee
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
Think to yourself that every day is your last the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.Horace
I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.Sylvia Plath
The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.Jacob Bronowski, 1976
Many politicians lay it down as a self - Evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.Lord Macaulay
Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.Joel Hawes
I think that their flight from and hatred of technology is self - Defeating. The Buddha rests quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer of the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha - - which is to demean oneself.Robert M. Pursig, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance".
Meetings are an addictive, highly self - Indulgent activity that corporations and other organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.Alain van der Heide
It is the action of an uninstructed person to reproach others for his own misfortune; of one entering instruction, to reproach himself; and one perfectly instructed, to reproach neither others nor himself.Epictetus, Enchiridion
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.Dr. Seuss
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.Mark Twain
A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
Know thyself? A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly.Andre Gide
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
Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for beingWhy thou wert there, O rival of the roseI never sought to ask, I never knewBut, in my simple ignorance supposeThe selfsame power that brought me there brought you.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Patience with others is Love, Patience with self is Hope, Patience with God is Faith.Adel Bestavros
The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents him; it is the lapidary who gives value to the diamond which the peasant has dug up without knowing its value.Abbe Guillaume Raynal
It took me twenty years of studied self - Restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public.George Bernard Shaw
He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.Karl Kraus
It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.Queen Christina, of Sweden, 1629 - 1689
Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.G. Stanley Hall
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore and diverting himself and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary while the greater ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.Ashley Montagu
