Self Quotes

You have to expect things of yourself before you do them.

Michael Jordan

The true fanatic is a theocrat, someone who sees himself as acting on behalf of some super personal force the Race, the Party, History, the proletariat, the Poor, and so on. These absolve him from evil, hence he may safely do anything in their service.

Lord Billingsley

I pride myself on the fact that my work has no socially redeeming value.

John Waters

What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.

Carlos Fuentes

Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself.

Ralph Waldo Trine

Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.

Igor Stravinski

Look well into thyself there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live.

Oscar Wilde

An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.

Publilius Syrus

Real love is a permanently self - Enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck, O Magazine, February 2004

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself.

Michel de Montaigne

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.

Samuel Johnson

Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you and act accordingly.

Thomas Jefferson

Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, And know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, No coincidences, All events are blessings given to us to learn from.

Elizabeth Kubler - Ross

Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.

Henry Ward Beeche

Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say to myself, Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.

Lillian

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.

Thomas a Kempis

Even pleasure itself is a toil.

Manilius

I knew a man who gave up smoking, drinking, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.

Johnny Carson, people magazine special issue

The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.

Charles Dudley Warne

To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.

Hermann Hesse

The secret source of humour itself is not joy, but sorrow. There is no humour in heaven.

Mark Twain

All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self - Evident.

Arthur Schopenhaue

You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentrate on being happy with yourself as you are.

J. Jacques, Questionable Content webcomic, #352, 05 - 04 - 05

I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.

Johann Kaspar Lavate

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes. It may even lie on the surface; but we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions? especially selfish ones.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Peace and Violence, sct. 2, in Index, no. 4 (London, 1973.

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

Thomas Jefferson

People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - Are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a have type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a have not type of self.

Eric Hoffe

If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.

Anonymous

If you have a brain in your head and feet in your shoes, you can steer youeself in any direction you choose.

Dr. Seuss

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

Truman Capote

A man without justice is a beast, and a man who would make himself a beast forgets the pain of being a man.

Timothy Leary

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I believe that to meet the challenge of the next century, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. Each of us must learn to work not just for his or her own self, family or nation, but for the benefit of all mankind.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama, speech? in 1994

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self - Sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.

John Foster Dulles

A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self - Control is the rule.

Ralph Waldo Emerson