Self Quotes

I shall despair. There is no creature loves me; And if I die no soul will pity me: And wherefore should they, since that I myself Find in myself no pity to myself?

William Shakespeare, Richard III, V. iii

If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self - Interest, you can have practically anything you go after.

Napoleon Hill

What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.

Carlos Fuentes

Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self - Praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.

Arnold Bennett

Learn to limit yourself, to content yourself with some definite thing, and some definite work; dare to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not and to believe in your own individuality.

Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel

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

Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.

Cicero

If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives. Do good anyway.

Mother Theresa

What is life It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

Crowfoot

We have to remember that what we observe is not nature in itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

Werner Heisenberg

If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself.

Joseph Farrell

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

J. Krishnamarti

As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self take the shape Of every creature in whom he is present.

Maitri Upanishads

When money is seen as a solution for every problem, money itself becomes the problem.

Richard Needham

There are pauses amidst study, and even pauses of seeming idleness, in which a process goes on which may be likened to the digestion of food. In those seasons of repose, the powers are gathering their strength for new efforts; as land which lies fallow recovers itself for tillage.

J. W. Alexande

If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure.

Dietrich Bonhoeffe

To conquer others is to have power, to conquer yourself is to know the way.

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?

Rabbi Hillel

In jealousy there is more of self - Love, than of love to another.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.

John MacNaughton

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe, Berenice

A threat is basically a means for establishing a bargaining position by inducing fear in the subject. When a threat is used, it should always be implied that the subject himself is to blame by using words such as You leave me no other choice but to...

CIA Manual

You are the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means.

Dag Hammarskjold

Self - Trust, we know, is the first secret of success.

Lady Wilde

I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.

Charles Dudley Warne

There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Any ordinary man can... surround himself with two thousand books... and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

Augustine Birrell

The planting of trees is the least self - Centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Thornton

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Each bird loves to hear himself sing.

Arapaho Prove

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.

William S. Burroughs

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

Aldous Huxley

The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.

C. S. Lewis

Of course life is bizarre, the more bizarre it gets, the more interesting it is. The only way to approach it is to make yourself some popcorn and enjoy the show.

David Gerrold

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ

Occasionally, I have to think like myself to remember where I put something.

Sue S. Taylo