Self Quotes

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.

Albert Einstein

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

John Updike

It was when Lucifer first congratulated himself upon his angelic behavior that he became the tool of evil.

Dag Hammarskjld

Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell.

John Milton, Paradise Lost

I give myself, sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Mary Montagu

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

Graham Greene, The Ministry of Fea

The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal - - Or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.

Elizabeth Peters

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

Spanish Prove

Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

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

Self - Esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self - Esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.

Bette Midle

Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide he exposes himself.

Jeanne Moreau

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

Modesty and unselfishness - - These are the virtues which men praise - - And pass by.

Andr Maurois

Self - Esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.

Nathaniel Branden

As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self take the shape Of every creature in whom he is present.

Maitri Upanishads

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself and can never be erased.

Alexander Hamilton

I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.

Charles Dudley Warne

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Albert Einstein

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Roosevelt, Eleano

Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavor. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

Albert Einstein

If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.

Mark

Everyone needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life.

Julia T. Alvarez

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

There is always someone worse off than yourself.

Aesop

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make yourself a happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be.... Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.

Wilfred Peterson, This Week (Oct. 1, 1961)

The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.

Rita Mae Brown, Venus Envy

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

Pope John XXIII

Hope itself is a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.

Samuel Johnson

There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases; it is the easiest thing of all to deceive one? s self.

Demosthenes, Olynthiac

You can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search.

Maxwell Maltz

What a searching preacher of self - Command is the varying phenomenon of health.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Virginia Woolf