Self Quotes
The power of one is above all things The power to believe in yourself Often well beyond any latent ability previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete, The body is simply the means it uses.Bryce Courtenay
That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In the act of destruction, man sets himself above life he transcends himself as a creature. Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate.Erich Fromm
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.Sun - Tzu
Knowledge and personality make doubt possible, but knowledge is also the cure of doubt; and when we get a full and adequate sense of personality we are lifted into a region where doubt is almost impossible, for no man can know himself as he is, and all fullness of his nature, without also knowing God.T. T. Munge
Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.Thomas a Kempis
But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self - Righteousness - - Each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked - - Each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.Herbert Butterfield
A fanatic is one compelled to action by the need to find a strong meaning in life. The fanatic determines for himself what role he is to play in life, and his intense devotion to a cause is the means.Eugene E. Brussell
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.Czech Prove
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.Anais Nin
No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of ther beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems.Anne Rice, "Blood and Gold".
The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others.Hazlitt
The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking - Glass.Boileau
Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell.John Milton, Paradise Lost
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
The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.Joseph Sobran
Friendship without self - Interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.James F. Byrnes
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.Michel de Montaigne
Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being.Blaise Pascal, Pensees(II, 72)
If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself.John Milton
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.Bertolt Brecht
Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.Johann von Goethe
The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.Alvin Toffle
If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.Saint Augustine
The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.Robert Ingersoll
I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself.Michel de Montaigne
Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee.Thomas Fulle
Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.Mary Hemingway
Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.Lou Dorfsman
Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.Saint Teresa of Avila
Magic is believing in yourself. If you can do that, you can make anything happen.Foka Gomez
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.Thomas Szasz, "The Second Sin".
As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.Adelle Davis
Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.Stephen Leacock, "Nonsense Novels", 1911
If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.Sebastien - Roch Nicolas
No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.Saint John Chrysostom, Letter to Olympia
You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself.Harvey Firestone
