Self Quotes

Do not let people put you down. Believe in yourself and stand for yourself and trust yourself.

Jacob Neusne

Fear is a question What are you afraid of, and why Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self - Knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

I have found a desire within myself that no experience in this world can satisfy; the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

C. S. Lewis

I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Experience shows that success is due less to ability that to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.

Charles Buxton

A friend is a second self.

Aristotle

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

Hippocrates, Regimen

Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.

Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

Albert Einstein

Enjoy things which are pleasant that is not the evil it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.

Thomas Carlyle

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

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

We believe that an artist, in order to be true to himself and his work, must be a free man.

John F. Kennedy, Introducing Pablo Casals at a White House dinner, November 1961, at which he performed publicly for the first t

Why not be oneself That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound why try to look like a Pekinese.

Edith Sitwell

You must be willing to protect yourself and what you cherish, no matter what the cost.

Christopher Paolini, Author of Eragon and Eldest. Quote from Eragon.

If you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, then make that change.

Michael Jackson, Man In The Mirro

He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

Thomas Paine

The man who comes with a tale about others has himself an ax to grind.

Chinese prove

It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to be kind to another, without helping himself.

Bailey

It is by no means self - Evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.

Thomas Elliot

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Mary Cholmondeley

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

Sir Winston Churchill

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others it is in yourself alone.

Orison Swett Marden

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of Mankind is Man.

Alexander Pope

I paint self - Portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

Frida Kahlo

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

Paul Valery

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

Anna Freud

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self - Respect.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.

Abraham Maslow

Life has. taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.

Alan Stewart Paton

I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, and receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.

Woody Allen

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

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

Loneliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best thing you can do it to know yourself... know what you want.

Janet Fitch, "White Oleander".

There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living... a way in which life itself is sheer knowing.

Laurens Van der Post, Venture to the Interior (1951)

Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.

Baltasar Gracian

First mend yourself, and then mend others.

Jewish Prove

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