Self Quotes
A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.Peter McArthu
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist, section 2
If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.Norman Vincent Peale
Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the insidiousness of self - Praise, and all the ill - Desert of falsehood.Tyron Edwards
If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity marry, and perpetuate his kind.Don Marquis
We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.Lloyd Alexande
Character develops itself in the stream of life.Johann von Goethe
Self - Reverence, self knowledge, self - Control. These three alone lead life to sovereign power.Lord Tennyson
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.Oscar Wilde
When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.Nancy Friday
Better keep yourself clean and bright you are the window through which you must see the world.George Bernard Shaw
To be nobody but yourself, in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.E. E. Cummings
To make mistakes is human to stumble is commonplace to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.William Arthur Ward
He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.M. C. Esche
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.Andrew Carnegie
By constant self - Discipline and self - Control you can develop greatness of characte.Grenville Kleise
I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.Franz Kafka
If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up, that is exactly what you will be.Robert Collie
It is regrettable that, among the Rights of Man, the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten.Charles Baudelaire
It is one of those beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.Charles Dudley Warne
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
The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear.Felix Adle
Do not try to fight a lion if you are not one yourself.African Prove
Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Forgive many things in others nothing in yourself.Ausonius
So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.Francois Rabelais, 1532
A self - Balancing, 28 - Jointed adaptor - Based biped; an electro - Chemical reduction plant, integral with segregated stowages of special energy extracts in storage batteries, for subsequent actuation of thousands of hydraulic and pneumatic pumps, with motors attached; 62, 000 miles of capillaries....R. Buckminster Fulle
The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear minded and self - Controlled so that you can pray. Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.1 Peter 47 - 8 Bible
We hold these truths to be self - Evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments a.Thomas Jefferson
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
The world itself is the will to power - And nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - And nothing else!Friedrich Nietzsche, "The Will to Power".
Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You cannot get there by bus, only by hard work, risking and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you will discover will be wonderful; yourself.Alan Alda
Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use.Peter Mere Latham
The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.Garth Brooks, Country Music
But true love is a durable fire In the mind ever burning Never sick, never old, never dead From itself never turning.Sir Walter Raleigh
The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.Charles Peguy
One must really have suffered oneself to help others.Mother Theresa
