Self Quotes
He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
He who carries out one good deed acquires one advocate in his own behalf, and he who commits one transgression acquires one accuser against himself. Repentance and good works are like a shield against calamity.The Talmud
Do not let people put you down. Believe in yourself and stand for yourself and trust yourself.Jacob Neusne
The difficult child is the child who is unhappy. He is at war with himself; and in consequence, he is at war with the world.A. S. Neill, Summerhill
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - - Nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.Richard Milhous Nixon
I said to myself that growing up really means slowing down.Siri Hustvedt, What I Loved, pg. 336
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.Dr. Seuss
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.Ralph Waldo Emerson
I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.William Blake
Believe in yourself Have faith in your abilities Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.Norman Vincent Peale
When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.Charles De Gaulle
A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.Alec Waugh
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.Mark Twain
Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say to myself, Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.Lillian
When marrying, ask yourself this question Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age Everything else in marriage is transitory.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that position, the next thing he should do is reach out his arms.Kristin Hunter, O Magazine, November 2003
Formal education will earn you a living, self - Education make you a fortune.Unknown
Be fully in the moment, open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.Ernest Hemingway
When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself.Luigi Pirandello
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
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he who thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.C. C. Colton
Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.Jimmy Carte
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
Christ will remain a priest and king though He was never consecrated by any papist bishop or greased by any of those shavelings but he was ordained and consecrated by God Himself, and by Him anointed.Martin Luthe
You give little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.Kahlil Gibran
The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.Douglas MacArthu
A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.Voltaire
I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
The mayor gave no other answer than that deep guttural grunt which is technically known in municipal interviews as refusing to commit oneself.Stephen Butler Leacock
Self - Esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.Nathaniel Branden
That we can comprehend the little we know already is mindboggling in itself.Tom Gates
What a searching preacher of self - Command is the varying phenomenon of health.Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a 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
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.Aaron Copland
People who imagine themselves to be self - Made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail.Richard Russo
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
