Self Quotes
Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great Argument About it and about but evermore Came out by the same Door as in I went.Omar Khayym
I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know that there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.Albert Camus
The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903
Psychoanalysis is that mental illnes for which it regards itself a therapy.Karl Kraus
I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.Mohandas Ghandi
This above all TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE. And it must follow as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.William Shakespeare
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.Henry Kissinge
The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal - - Or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.Elizabeth Peters
The only difference between a madman and myself is that I am not mad.Salvidor Dali
Wine makes a man more pleased with himself I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.Samuel Johnson
Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables, Leaving her wedding - Garlands to decay - - Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses.Charles Kingsley
If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished. Proposal to reform welfare programs.Richard Milhous Nixon
In all the work we do, our most valuable asset can be the attitude of self - Examination. It is forgivable to make mistakes, but to stand fast behind a wall of self - Righteousness and make the same mistake twice is not forgivable.Dr. Dale E. Turne
It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest; better to lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune.Samuel Smiles
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.Leszezynski Stanislaus
Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.Lois McMaster Bujold, "A Civil Campaign", 1999
If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives. Do good anyway.Mother Theresa
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.George Bernard Shaw
When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer - Say traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep - It is on such occasions that my ideas flow best, and most abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not, nor can I force them...Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I hate mankind, for I think of myself as one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.Samuel Johnson
The only thing to fear is fear itself.Franklin D. Roosevelt
I have great faith in fools; self - Confidence, my friends call it.Edgar Allan Poe
All of the significant battles are waged within the self.Sheldon Kopp
Educate your children to self - Control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.Benjamin Franklin
Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself.Liberace
It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.Graham Greene, The Ministry of Fea
What a man thinks of himself that is what determines, or rather indicates his fate.Henry David Thoreau
Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.Jose Ortega y Gasset
Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.Andre Gide
It is noble to teach oneself, but still nobler to teach others - - And less trouble. - Speech, 1906.Mark Twain
The next thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.Norman Douglas
A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself.Unknown
What we won when all of our people united... must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. ... Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.Lyndon B. Johnson
When you meet the president, you ask yourself, How did it ever occur to anybody that he should be governor much less president.Henry Kissinge
Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.Alfred North Whitehead
Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.Mark Twain
Your purpose in relationships is simply to be your best self, regardless of the circumstances.Rosalene Glickman, Ph. D., Optimal Thinking: How to Be Your Best Self
