Self Quotes

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.

Sun - Tzu

A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense.

American Prove

He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

An educated man... is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.

Alan Simpson

I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me.

Anwar el - Sadat

The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.

Jane Wyman

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.

Robert Louis Stevenson

What is the first business of one who practices philosophy To get rid of self - Conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.

Epictetus

Christmas gift suggestions To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect.

Oren Arnold

If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self - Direction, and for self - Initiated learning.

Carl R. Rogers

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh - - At yourself.

Ethel Barrymoore

No one but a theorist believes his theory; everyone puts faith in a laboratory result but the experimenter himself.

Albert Einstein, quoted in Scientific American, September 2004, page 69

The spirit is the true self.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases; it is the easiest thing of all to deceive one? s self.

Demosthenes, Olynthiac

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

You give but little when you give of your posessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Kahlil Gibran, The Prohpet, 1923

Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

They say that time changes things, but actually you have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

It is impossible to go through life without trust That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

Graham Greene

Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.

Bertolt Brecht

Mediocrity does not see higher than itself. But talent instantly recognizes the genius.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of Hell and a hell of Heaven.

John Milton, Dr. Faustus

Let no one flatter himself of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.

Saint Augustine

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

Arnold Toynbee

He that plants trees loves others beside himself.

Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

To find yourself, think for yourself.

Socrates, The Apology

A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.

Chinua Achebe

Listen within yourself and look into the infinitude of Space and Time. There can be heard the songs of the Constellations, the voices of the Numbers, and the harmonies of the Spheres.

The Divine Pymande

We can begin by noting that the body prefers to keep itself alive.

John Tierney, Esquire, August 1981

Be not surprised if thou findest thyself in possession of unexpected wealth. Allah will provide an unexpected use for it.

James J. Roche

Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

To handle yourself, use your head To handle others, use your heart.

Roosevelt, Eleano

If you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, then make that change.

Michael Jackson, Man In The Mirro

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.

William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

To establish true self - Esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

Denis Watley

The art of advice is to make the recipient believe he thought the thought of it himself.

Frank Tyge