Self Quotes

Eleanor roosevelt - you gain strength, courage, and confidence by...
William shakespeare - he who has injured thee was either stronger or...
Your central self is totally untouched By grief, confusion, desperation.
Vernon Howard
No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.
Greville
Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.
Baltasar Gracian
First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - Nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933
What ought a man to be Well, my short answer is himself.
Henrik Ibsen
Pascal keeps your hand tied. C gives you enough rope to hang yourself.
Anon.
The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.
Jane Wagne
And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheefully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait... And as to you, Life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.
Walt Whitman
So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
Francois Rabelais, 1532
Confucius - respect yourself and others will respect you....
Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it.
Thaddeus Golas
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
Love becomes perfect only when it transcends itself - - Becoming One with its object Producing Unity of Being.
Hakim Jami
The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing.
R. D. Hitchcock
Self - Esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self - Esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
Bette Midle
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
Michel de Montaigne
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
Maya Angelou
A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.
Jeanne - Marie Roland
He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
M. C. Esche
Building castles in the air, and making yourself a laughing - Stock.
Miguel de Cervantes
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self - Satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.
John Wooden
Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.
Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999
Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide - Sounding Zeus puts a good mind.
Homer, The Iliad
We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - - For no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self - Love.
William Hazlitt
Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self - Confidence and your self - Doubt.
Kahlil Gibran
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
John Mui
Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Life itself is neither good nor evil, but only a place for good and evil.
Marcus Aelius Aurelius
If you have no confidence in yourself you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won before you have started.
Marcus Garvey
He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
Thomas H. Huxley
Self - Esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
Nathaniel Branden
A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only he himself can damage that. His reputations what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity.
John Ballantine Gough
He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.
Henry Taylo
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
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim.
Graham Greene, Heart of the Matter (1948)