Self Quotes
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - Especially when one is right.Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Book dedication To myself, without whose inspired and tireless efforts this book would not have been possible.Al Jaffee
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
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
Forgive thyself little, and others much.Leighton
Malice sucks up the greater part of her own venom, and poisons herself.Michel de Montaigne
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Think and feel yourself there! To achieve any aim in life, you need to project the end - Result. Think of the elation, the satisfaction, the joy! Carrying the ecstatic feeling will bring the desired goal into view.Grace Speare
If you turn your back on these people, you yourself are an animal. You may be a well - Dressed animal, but you are nevertheless an animal.Edward Irving Koch
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.Samuel Johnson
Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.Johann von Goethe
Accuse not nature, she hath done her partDo thou but thine, and be not diffidentOf wisdom, she deserts thee not, if thouDismiss not her, when most thou needest her nigh, By attributing overmuch to thingsLess excellent, as thou thyself perceivest.John Milton
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Education is life itself.John Dewey
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, although it is apt to fill a man with wind and self - Righteousness.Sir Robert Hutchison
It is the part of a wise man to keep himself to - Day for to - Morrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.Miguel de Cervantes
Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.Tom Hopkins
A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.Arthur Mille
Nothing feeds upon itself as liberality does.Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince (1513)
If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.Sidney Madwed
Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you - - Out of love - - Takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice.Dag Hammarskjld
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.Thomas Jefferson
It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self - Centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self - Reliance
If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self - Interest, you can have practically anything you go after.Napoleon Hill
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.Carl Jung
Above all be true to yourself, and if you can not put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.Hardy D. Jackson
The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.Dietrich Bonhoeffe
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.Hunter S. Thompson
Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.Immanuel Kant, CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON
The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself and carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion. It is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion.Auguste Renoi
Have no friends not equal to yourself.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
A fanatic is one compelled to action by the need to find a strong meaning in life. The fanatic determines for himself what role he is to play in life, and his intense devotion to a cause is the means.Eugene E. Brussell
Develop interest in life as you see it in people, things, literature, music - The world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.Henry Mille
You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.Plato, Dialogues, Theatetus
The most disturbing and wasteful emotions in modern life, next to fright, are those which are associated with the idea of blame, directed against the self or against others.Marilyn Ferguson
It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you can make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost....Richard Bach
My main hope for myself is to be where I am.Woody Harrelson
