Self Quotes

We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.

Jane Austen

You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself.

Harvey Firestone

First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - Nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933

Most powerful is he who has himself in his power.

Seneca

The more you talk to yourself, the more apt you are to lie.

Author Unknown

A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs.

William R Allen

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A bird will fall frozen dead from the bow of a ship without ever having felt sorry for itself.

D. H. Lawerence

The idea of an incarnation of God is absurd: why should the human race think itself so superior to bees, ants, and elephants as to be put in this unique relation to its maker? . . Christians are like a council of frogs in a marsh or a synod of worms on a dung - Hill croaking and squeaking for our sakes was the world created.

Julian the Apostate

One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, Have a nice day.

Peter Brodie

There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.

Hermann Hesse

If the thunder is not loud, the peasant forgets to cross himself.

Assyrian Prove

The self - Controlled soul, who moves amongst sense objects, free from either attachment or repulsion, he wins eternal Peace.

Bhagavad Gita

Happiness is a sunbeam, Which may pass through a thousand bosoms Without losing a particle of its original ray Nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, Like the converged light on a mirror, It reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Jane Porte

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Virginia Woolf

The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice; rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.

Thomas a Kempis

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - - Nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward in my actions and not from them.

Hugh Prathe

If a child lives with approval, he learns to live with himself.

Dorothy Law Nolte

The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.

Oscar Wilde

One must not be mean with the affections what is spent of the fund is renewed in the spending itself.

Sigmund Freud

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

Anais Nin

Shun praise. Praise leads to self - Delusion. Thy body is not Self, thyself is in itself without a body, and either praise or blame affects it not.

H Hahn Blavatsky

He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying.

Michel de Montaigne

The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self - Serving wealth.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Authentic Christianity never destroys what is good. It makes it grow, transfigures it, and enriches itself from it.

Claire Huchet Bishop

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

When you start to doubt yourself, the real world will eat you alive.

Henry Rollins, From his song "Shine".

I wish everybody would have to have an electric thing implanted in our heads that gave us a shock whenever we did something to disobey the president. Then somehow I get myself elected president.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

The reliance on property is... the want of self - Reliance. Men measure the esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is. But a cultivated man becomes ashamed of his property... Essays.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To linger in the observation of things other than the self implies a profound conviction of their worth.

Charles - Damian Boulogne

Other people may not have high expectations of me, But I have high expectations for myself.

Shannon Mille

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis, Impressions and Comments (1914)

As long as I am an American citizen and American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject.

Elija Lovejoy

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - - That is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

James Thurbe

Patience with others is Love, Patience with self is Hope, Patience with God is Faith.

Adel Bestavros

A friend is a present you give yourself.

Robert Louis Stevenson