Self Quotes
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do, Ohara Publications
If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished. Proposal to reform welfare programs.Richard Milhous Nixon
What is life? It is a 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
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.Lucille Ball
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
We hold these truths to be self - Evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.US Declaration of Independence
Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavor. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.Albert Einstein
America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant.Garry Trudeau
Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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
The wise should surrender speech in mind, mind in the knowing self, the knowing self in the Spirit of the universe, and the Spirit of the universe in the Spirit of peace.Maitri Upanishads
Develop interest in life as you see it in people, things, literature, music - The world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.Henry Mille
The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.Dietrich Bonhoeffe
You cannot dream yourself into a character you must hammer and forge yourself one.James A. Froude
He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.Benjamin Franklin
We hold these truths to be self - Evident that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.US Declaration of Independence
A friend is, as it were, a second self.Cicero, De Amicitia
The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.Stephen Nachmanovitch
The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self - Activity.Thomas Carlyle
What the superior man seeks is in himself what the small man seeks is in others.Confucius
Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.Iris Murdoch
The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.Oscar Wilde
Resolve to be thyself and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.Matthew Arnold
Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - They bear no fruit.Francis Marion
So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 4 scene 5
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self - Restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.Theodore Roosevelt
If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.Orison Swett Marden
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.David Mamet
He who has injured thee was stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him if stronger, spare thyself.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires and fears is more than a King.John Milton
This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.Voltaire
That we can comprehend the little we know already is mindboggling in itself.Tom Gates
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.Joseph Addison
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.Mark Twain
Make yourself familiar with the angels, and behold them frequently in spirit for without being seen, they are present with you.Saint Francis de Sales
Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.Albert Einstein
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
This report, by its very length, defends itself against being read.Winston Churchill
