Self Quotes

Isaac newton - i was like a boy playing on the sea - shore, and...
Albert camus - an intellectual is someone whose mind watches...
Let no one flatter himself of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.
Saint Augustine
You cannot stand anywhere in the universe that is outside of yourself.
Deepak Chopra
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
The mirror never sees itself. The reflection never is itself.
J. Gregory Keyes, "Babylon 5: Dark Genesis: The Birth of the Psi Corps".
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ
A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
Unknown
John cage - if you develop an ear for sounds that are musical...
I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After - Life spell, And by and by my Soul returned to me, And answered I Myself am Heaven and Hell.
Omar Khayym
Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
G. Stanley Hall
At sixteen I was stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. At twenty - Five I was wise, self - Confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty - Five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence?
Jules Feiffe
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill anothe.
Alan Stewart Paton
When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.
Albert Einstein, The World as I See It.
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Buddha
I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles.
Anais Nin
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.
Mark Twain
Self - Loving is not so vile a sin, my liege, as self - Neglecting.
William Shakespeare
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
Educate your children to self - Control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
Benjamin Franklin
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
Cynthia Heimel
You give little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Kahlil Gibran
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
Cyril Connolly
An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.
Bonnie Friedman, in New York Times
I do not think myself to be a worm, and a grub, grass of the field fit only to be burned, a clod, a morsel of putrid atoms that should be thrown to the dungheap, ready for the nethermost pit. Nor if I did should I therefore expect to sit with Angels and Archangels.
Anthony Trollope
Nature herself makes the wise man rich.
Cicero
He who makes a beast of himself relieves himself the pain of being a man.
Hunter S. Thompson
However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society.
Henry David Thoreau
The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.
Seneca
To conquer others is to have power, to conquer yourself is to know the way.
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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
To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.
George Santayana
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
Aristotle, Politics
An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
Washington Irving
To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
Simone de Beauvoi
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To what purpose should I trouble myself in searching out the secrets of the stars, having death or slavery continually before my eyes?
Anaximenes
This quote reminds me to enjoy each moment of the summer Steep thyself in a bowl of summertime.
Virgil
Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
Samuel Johnson
The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.
Cicero