Self Quotes
Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.Charles Dickens
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
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.Albert Einstein
Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee.Thomas Fulle
The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Affirmations are like prescriptions for certain aspects of yourself you want to change.Jerry Frankhause
There is a luxury in self - Reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.Sir John Gielgud
He who despises himself nevertheless esteems himself as a self - Despiser.Friedrich Nietzsche
Where talent is a dwarf, self - Esteem is a giant.J. Petit - Senn
Educate your children to self - Control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.Daniel Webste
A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.Nathaniel Hawthorne
Do whatever comes your way as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people and other things that are interesting. Put a good deal of thought into happiness that you are able to give.Roosevelt, Eleano
Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.Evelyn Underhill
Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence. It also allows one to risk that marriage.Gloria Steinem
The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.W. S. Maugham, Of Human Bondage
If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself.Joseph Farrell
Watch for good times to retreat into yourself. Frequently meditate on how good God is to you.Thomas a Kempis, quoted in the LDS Church News 8/20/2005
The people that one bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - Bread and circuses.Juvenal
What the superior man seeks is in himself what the small man seeks is in others.Confucius
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.Francis Maitland Balfou
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.Spanish Prove
That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust.Gustave Flaubert, 1, 911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said
Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.John Jay Chapman
Whoever is open, loyal, true of humane and affable demeanour honourable himself, and in his judgement of others faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man.... such a man is a true gentleman.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.George Bernard Shaw
Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it repose in Thee.Saint Augustine, The Confessions. Book 1. (The Harvard Classics. 1909? 14, p. 1)
Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it sparkles in the setting of modest self - Distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive any injury.Author Unknown
Resolve to be thyself and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.Matthew Arnold
Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and archive mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement, against that past.George Steine
He for himself weaves woe who weaves for others woe, and evil counsel on the counselor recoils.Hesiod
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.Mark Twain
Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.Stephen Leacock, "Nonsense Novels", 1911
If you feel yourself falling, let go and glide.Steffen Francisco
No man is an island, entire of itself every man is a piece of the continent.John Donne
Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills.Kahlil Gibran
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong.Jane Austen
