Self Quotes

Nicolas boileau - the world is full of fools and he who would not...
Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
Doris Lessing
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self - Gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Kelle
One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self - Criticism of a tired mind is suicide.
Charles Horton Cooley
Self - Pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.
Helen Kelle
Samuel butle - the man who lets himself be bored is even more...
People are unreasonable, illogical, and self - Centered. Love them anyway.
Mother Theresa
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone.
Samuel Johnson
Pierre charron - the most excellent and divine counsel, the best...
Always be a first - Rate version of yourself, instead of a second - Rate version of someone else.
Judy Garland
A man who works beyond the surface of things, though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way for others and may make even his errors subservient to the cause of truth.
Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry Into The Sublime and Beautiful
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.
Samuel Johnson
Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self - Esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.
Fritz Perls
It is impossible to better yourself if you do not know what it means to be better.
Unknown
Blessed is he who has has learned to laugh at himself for he shall never cease to be entertained.
Shirley MacLaine
I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government but civilization itself.
Gerald R. Ford, Inaugural Address, 9 August 1974
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Oscar Wilde
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self - Complacent is erroneous - - On the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. It is failure that makes people bitter and cruel.
W. Somerset Maugham
One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.
Wilfrid Sheed
For myself I am an optimist - It does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Sir Winston Churchill
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
Pascal keeps your hand tied. C gives you enough rope to hang yourself.
Anon.
He who fights monsters should look into it that he himself does not become a monster. When you gaze long into the Abyss, the Abyss also gazes into you.
Friedrich Neitzsche
Preparation is not the enemy of success, but a dear friend. Be good to yourself and the favor will return.
Samuel Cunningham
Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? - A hoax fabricated by poets for their self - Importance.
Jean Anouilh
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
Do you know what a pessimist is A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
George Bernard Shaw
In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
J. Krishnamarti
Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Adventure is worthwhile in itself.
Amelia Earhart
Self - Trust, we know, is the first secret of success.
Lady Wilde
Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light.
Baltasar Gracian
Do you know what a pessimist is? A person who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself and hates them for it.
George Bernard Shaw
Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
Quintilian
Where there are no tigers, a wildcat is very self - Important.
Korean Prove
I bet the sparrow looks at the parrot and thinks, yes, you can talk, but LISTEN TO YOURSELF.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously; and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.
Booth Tarkington
The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - Bread and circuses!
Juvenal, Satires
Your central self is totally untouched By grief, confusion, desperation.
Vernon Howard
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe