Self Quotes
Of all the communities available to us there is not one I would want to devote myself to, except for the society of the true searchers, which has very few living members at any time.Albert Einstein
They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.Sir Thomas More, Utopia
A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense.American Prove
Make yourself familiar with the angels, and behold them frequently in spirit for without being seen, they are present with you.Saint Francis de Sales
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others with out getting a few drops on yourself.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true.Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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
I paint self - Portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.Frida Kahlo
Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.Evelyn Underhill
Love is our response to our highest values. Love is self - Enjoyment. The noblest love is born out of admiration of another? s values.Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Any effort that has self - Glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.Robert M. Pirsig
If you have a brain in your head and feet in your shoes, you can steer youeself in any direction you choose.Dr. Seuss
The best leader is the one who has the sense to surround himself with outstanding people and self - Restraint not to meddle with how they do their jobs.Author Unknown
To establish true self - Esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.Denis Watley
If I am not for myself, who is for me But if I am for my own self only, what am I, and if not now, when.Rabbi Hillel
There are at least two kinds of cowards. One kind always lives with himself, afraid to face the world. The other kind lives with the world, afraid to face himself.Roscoe Snowden
An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.George Orwell
If you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, then make that change.Michael Jackson, Man In The Mirro
Man is immortal therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea it can only find itself in changing forms.Rabindranath Tagore
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.Oscar Wilde
Love becomes perfect only when it transcends itself - - Becoming One with its object Producing Unity of Being.Hakim Jami
When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there... now instead of then.Blaise Pascal
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.Albert Einstein
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.Niels Boh
The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.James Arthur Baldwin
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself - And be lenient to everybody else.Henry Ward Beeche
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.Froude
Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.G. C. Lichtenberg
I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time...Charles Dickens
The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - - Making it possible to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.Susan Sontag
I don? t really do New Year? s resolutions because I don? t think you should have to wait until December to start working on how to change yourself. I think if you? ve got a problem, you need to fix it now.Clay Aiken
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
Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.Jesse Stuart
As soon as we left the ground I knew I myself had to fly!Amelia Earhart
When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.Confucious
There will always be one who loves, and one who lets himself be loved.W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself.James Thurbe
