Self Quotes

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

We can begin by noting that the body prefers to keep itself alive.

John Tierney, Esquire, August 1981

Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.

Niels Henrik David Boh

Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.

Matthew Arnold

Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.

Rita Mae Brown

The salary of the chief executive of the large corporations is not an award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm gesture by the individual to himself.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Respect yourself and others will respect you.

Confucius

There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

There is nothing remarkable about it, all one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.

J. S. Bach

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.

Robert Anson Heinlein

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.

Judy Garland, to her daughter, Liza Minelli

Enjoy things which are pleasant that is not the evil it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.

Thomas Carlyle

Egotist a person more interested in himself than in me.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self - Solicitude is the enemy of well - Being.

John Updike

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, September 2002

Tell no one the secret that you want to keep, although he may be worthy of confidence; for no one will be so careful of your secret as yourself.

Saadi, On the Duties of Society

Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.

Doris Lessing

If you sit down at set of sun And count the acts that you have done, And counting find One self - Denying deed, one word That eased the heart of him who heard One glance most kind That fell like sunshine where it went - Then you may count that day well spent.

George Eliot

There are two ways of meeting difficulties You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.

Phyllis Bottome

Affirmations are like prescriptions for certain aspects of yourself you want to change.

Jerry Frankhause

He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.

Hesiod

When God wants to speak and deal with us, he does not avail himself of an angel but of parents, or the pastor, or of our neighbor.

Martin Luthe

One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one allows himself to be tamed.

Antoine de Saint - Exupery, The Little Prince

It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain and some of our griefs... have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all.

Miguel de Cervantes

To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.

Richard Whately

Neither a borrower nor a lender be For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.

William Shakespeare

If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.

Spanish Prove

All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself, and never mind the rest.

Beatrix Potte

Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.

Oscar Levant

To make mistakes is human to stumble is commonplace to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.

William Arthur Ward

For any woman to success in American life she must first do two things Prepare herself for a profession, and marry a man who wants her to succeed as much as she does.

Cathleen Douglas

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

Albert Einstein

Resolve to be thyself and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

Matthew Arnold

Greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.

William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating

It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Charles Dudley