Self Quotes

Christine bovee - doubt whom you will, but never yourself....
I have never seen a wild thing feel sorry for itself. A little bird will fall dead, frozen from a bough, without ever having felt sorry for itself.
D. H. Lawrence
Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.
Elie Wiesel, Chicago Sun - Times, November 5, 2001
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee.
Thomas Fulle
What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.
Confucius
Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it.
Thaddeus Golas
Joaquin setanti - be wary of the man who urges an action in which...
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
Francis Quarles
It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957
You cannot teach a man anything. you can only help him to find it for himself.
Galileo Galilei
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
The self is not something ready - Made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
John Dewey
Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens
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
Remember Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - Then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.
Endicott Peabody
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Scott Adams
Everything is connected... no one thing can change by itself.
Paul Hawken
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
I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
Thomas Jefferson
Building castles in the air, and making yourself a laughing - Stock.
Miguel de Cervantes
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
Marlene Dietrich
Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.
Anthony Robbins
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore and diverting himself and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell that ordinary while the greater ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Isaac Newton
Do not wrong or hate your neighbor, for it is not he that you wrong: You wrong yourself.
Shawnee Indian Chant
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.
Albert Einstein
A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate.
La Rochefoucauld
No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead. Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study, and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think.
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859
To understand is to forgive, even oneself.
Alexander Chase
Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.
Robert Bolt
The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it.
Mack R. Douglas
The vain man is generally a doubter. It is Newton who sees himself as child on the sea shore, and his discoveries in the colored shell.
Willmott
Through the doors of perception Down the corridors of uncertainty Into the room of self doubt Opens the window of opportunity.
Unknown
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene 3
The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.
Gustave Flaubert
A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.
Jeanne - Marie Roland
Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.
Baltasar Gracian
To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.
Sylvia Plath, The Bell Ja
Do whatever comes your way as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people and other things that are interesting. Put a good deal of thought into happiness that you are able to give.
Roosevelt, Eleano
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.
Eleanor Roosevelt