Self Quotes

Edmund burke, a philosophical inquiry into the origins of the sublime and beatiful. - a man who works beyond the surface of things,...
Marcus aurelius antoninus - if you are distressed by anything external, the...
Think highly of yourself, for the world takes you at your own estimate.
Author Unknown
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward in my actions and not from them.
Hugh Prathe
We can begin by noting that the body prefers to keep itself alive.
John Tierney, Esquire, August 1981
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim.
Graham Greene, Heart of the Matter (1948)
Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
Henry James
Real love is a permanently self - Enlarging experience.
M. Scott Peck, O Magazine, February 2004
To handle yourself, use your head To handle others, use your heart.
Roosevelt, Eleano
Alexander hamilton - in framing a government which is to be...
I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world.
Russell Bake
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
Elie Wiesel
If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself.
John Milton
Let a man strive to purify his thoughts. What a man thinketh, that is he this is the eternal mystery. Dwelling within himself with thoughts serene, he will obtain imperishable happiness.
Maitri Upanishads
Nature is wont to hide herself.
Heraclitus, On the Universe
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
Henry David Thoreau
Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self - Inflicted fate.
Albert Einstein
Why not be oneself That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound why try to look like a Pekinese.
Edith Sitwell
No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of ther beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems.
Anne Rice, "Blood and Gold".
History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.
Kahlil Gibran
It is noble to teach oneself, it is still nobler to teach others.
Mark Twain
One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.
Wilfrid Sheed
The best leader is the one who has the sense to surround himself with outstanding people and self - Restraint not to meddle with how they do their jobs.
Author Unknown
When solving a panic you must first ask yourself what you were doing that could possibly frighten an operating system.
Peter van der Linden
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth and truth rewarded me.
Simone de Beauvoi
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde
First say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have to do.
Epictetus
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
Sir Thomas Browne
A great leader never sets himself above his followers except in carrying responsibilities.
Jules Ormont
He who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself.
John Milton
What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.
Roland Barthes, Esprit
The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.
John Updike
It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self - Made laws.
Sir Richard Francis Burton
Before a man can wake up and find himself famous he has to wake up and find himself.
Author Unknown
He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.
Henry Taylo
The real tradegy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort - He never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.
Arnold Bennett
The world of the commodity is a world updside - Down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work.
Raoul Vaneigem
If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense, we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.
Anna Jameson