Self Quotes

His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old stories had a grain or two of truth in them and it was best not to take chances. It was why, he said, he crossed himself whenever a black cat crossed his path.

Stephen King

I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast. After she was pelted with eggs during a walkabout on New Zealand visit.

Elizabeth II

Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.

Thomas Jefferson

Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.

Robert Ingersoll

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself... The act of voting is in itself the defining moment.

Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Democracy in America, 1992

The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.

Confucious

Listen within yourself and look into the infinitude of Space and Time. There can be heard the songs of the Constellations, the voices of the Numbers, and the harmonies of the Spheres.

The Divine Pymande

Unless you are prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.

Orison Swett Marden

Courage consists of the power of self - Recovery.

Julie Arabi

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.

Ethel Barrymore

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Katherine Mansfield

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.

Chuang - Tzu, The Great Supreme

It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Charles Dudley

Fortunately, psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself remains a very effective therapist.

Karen Horney

For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.

Charles de Gaulle

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

Charlie Chaplin

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

James Arthur Baldwin

God conceals himself from the mind of man, but reveals himself to his heart.

African Prove

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.

William S. Burroughs

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

Albert Einstein

He who ignores discipline despises himself, but whoever heeds correction gains understanding.

Proverbs 1532 Bible

The surest way to be deceived is to think oneself cleverer than the others.

La Rochefoucauld

One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one allows himself to be tamed.

Antoine de Saint - Exupery, The Little Prince

Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

Sarah Bernhardt

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Any ordinary man can... surround himself with two thousand books... and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

Augustine Birrell

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

Arthur Brisbane

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Marcus Aurelius

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

If you have no confidence in yourself you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won before you have started.

Marcus Garvey

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

Jessamyn West

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim.

Graham Greene, Heart of the Matter (1948)

I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

Walt Whitman