Self Quotes
Even pleasure itself is a toil.Manilius
Man will do many things to get himself loved he will do all things to get himself envied.Mark Twain
Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou are not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will?Thomas a Kempis
I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.William Harvey
No man ought to lay a cross upon himself, or to adopt tribulation, as is done in popedom but if a cross or tribulation come upon him, then let him suffer it patiently, and know that it is good and profitable for him.Martin Luthe
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering you own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - Every day begin the task anew.Saint Francis de Sales
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others with out getting a few drops on yourself.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.James A. Garfield
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.H. L. Mencken
No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.Seneca
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself lying to others is relatively an exception.Hietzsche
Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 8
Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.Ben Stein
For myself I am an optimist - - It does not seem to be much use being anything else.Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
Are you bored with life Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.Dale Carnegie
Self - Loving is not so vile a sin, my liege, as self - Neglecting.William Shakespeare
He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself, and never mind the rest.Beatrix Potte
I think that their flight from and hatred of technology is self - Defeating. The Buddha rests quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer of the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha - - which is to demean oneself.Robert M. Pursig, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance".
If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me - Nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - But I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.John Keats, Letter to Fanny Brawne, Feb 1820 - Died 1 year late
A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the faade of his appearance.Jean Iris Murdoch
There are two ways of meeting difficulties You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.Phyllis Bottome
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.Alan Watts
An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.Samuel Smiles
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
That you may retain your self - Respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.William J. H. Boetcke
Under peaceful conditions the militant man attacks himself.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.Virginia Woolf
Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber.Ugo Betti
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full - On metamorphosis.Martha Beck, O Magazine, Growing Wings, January 2004
Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.Ralph Waldo Emerson
A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self - Addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.Ring Lardner, "How to Write Short Stories".
Do you know what a pessimist is? A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.George Bernard Shaw, An Unsocial Socialist (1887) ch. 5
To make mistakes is human to stumble is commonplace to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.William Arthur Ward
Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.Thomas Hobbes
The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.Charles Peguy
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.Cyril Connolly
