Self Quotes
There is nothing to fear but fear itself.Franklin D. Roosevelt
Keep thy religion to thyself.George Carlin
This is the true joy in life - - Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one...George Bernard Shaw
Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain it only means that he is hopelessly self - Absorbed.Leo C. Rosten
Live each season as it passes breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.Henry David Thoreau
First make yourself unpopular, then people will take you seriously.Konrad Adenauer, 1876 - 1967
Love is our response to our highest values. Love is self - Enjoyment. The noblest love is born out of admiration of another? s values.Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous. But to an even greater degree than the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of carelessness, incapacity, or neglect.Anonymous
Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self - Esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.Fritz Perls
Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.George Bernard Shaw
No good poem, however confessional is may be, is just a self - Expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?Robert Cecil Day Lewis
Self - Confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.Samuel Johnson
Wine makes a man more pleased with himself I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.Samuel Johnson
To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love in order that I may be loved back again, but for the creative joy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at least a little, by the outgoing of love, from enslavement to that most intolerable of master, myself.Bernard Iddings Bell
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.Truman Capote
A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.Chinua Achebe
If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished. Proposal to reform welfare programs.Richard Milhous Nixon
Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.Buddha
I still have a lot to learn - About the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting.Britney Spears
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.Michael Jordan
Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.Henry David Thoreau
It really doesnt matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.Real Live Preache
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
Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul.Pythagorus
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy.Anon.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.Friedrich Nietzsche
The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect he becomes an adolescent the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult the day he forgives himself he becomes wise.Alden Nowlan
Everyone needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life.Julia T. Alvarez
Accuse not nature, she hath done her partDo thou but thine, and be not diffidentOf wisdom, she deserts thee not, if thouDismiss not her, when most thou needest her nigh, By attributing overmuch to thingsLess excellent, as thou thyself perceivest.John Milton
He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.Numbers 63 Bible Hebrew
Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.Quintilian
Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a world - wide depression all by myself.Herbert Clark Hoove
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.Alan Ashley - Pitt
I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.Joseph Brodsky
He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.Niccolo Machiavelli
Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
