Self Quotes

Elisabeth kubler - ross - learn to get in touch with the silence within...
Robert fritz - if you limit your choices only to what seems...
Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.
Ecclesiastes
Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. 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, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 3
Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.
Michael Masser and Linda Creed
If I am not for myself, who is for me But if I am for my own self only, what am I, and if not now, when.
Rabbi Hillel
John macnaughton - maturity beings to grow when you can sense your...
Of all afflictions, the worst is self - Contempt.
Berthold Auerbach
Self - Development is a higher duty than self - Sacrifice.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
In summer, the song sings itself.
William Carlos Williams
He who has injured thee was stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him if stronger, spare thyself.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Fortunately psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
Karen Horney
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
More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.
Amy Grant
Few people think more than two or three times a year I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
George Bernard Shaw
Of all the communities available to us there is not one I would want to devote myself to, except for the society of the true searchers, which has very few living members at any time.
Albert Einstein
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Michael Jordan
Be not surprised if thou findest thyself in possession of unexpected wealth. Allah will provide an unexpected use for it.
James J. Roche
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.
Ann Landers
A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
Samuel Johnson
Of course life is bizarre, the more bizarre it gets, the more interesting it is. The only way to approach it is to make yourself some popcorn and enjoy the show.
David Gerrold
A friend is a present you give yourself.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self - Righteous isolation.
John Dewey
Self - Respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
H. L. Mencken
No really great man ever thought himself so.
William Hazlitt
It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.
Mary Daly
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
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
George Bernard Shaw
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.
Auguste Rodin
If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse - As a man shoots himself.
H. L. Mencken
He who despises himself esteems himself as a self - Despiser.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There is a luxury in self - Reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.
George Orwell
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
If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around you own.
Emerson
Lord Ronald said nothing he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.
Stephen Leacock
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.
Mark Twain
Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.
Johnson
He for himself weaves woe who weaves for others woe, and evil counsel on the counselor recoils.
Hesiod
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