Self Quotes

Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.

Nancy Kerrigan

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

Pearl Bailey

I still have a lot to learn - About the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting.

Britney Spears

Occasionally, I have to think like myself to remember where I put something.

Sue S. Taylo

No man is demolished but by himself.

Richard Bently

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

Arnold Toynbee

My schoolmates would make love to anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself.

Emo Philips

He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others.

Samuel Foote

It is the action of an uninstructed person to reproach others for his own misfortune; of one entering instruction, to reproach himself; and one perfectly instructed, to reproach neither others nor himself.

Epictetus, Enchiridion

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

Henry Van Dyke

The mayor gave no other answer than that deep guttural grunt which is technically known in municipal interviews as refusing to commit oneself.

Stephen Butler Leacock

Talent is like a faucet while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration - A hoax fabricated by poets for their self - Importance.

Jean Anouilh

This is the true joy in life - - Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one...

George Bernard Shaw

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

Aldous Huxley

First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that position, the next thing he should do is reach out his arms.

Kristin Hunter, O Magazine, November 2003

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

Lady Nancy Asto

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

Michel de Montaigne

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

Sir Thomas More

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

Henry David Thoreau

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.

Francis Quarles

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self - Control. Against such things, there is no law.

The Apostle Paul (Saul of Tarsus), The Bible - Galations 5: 22 - 23 NIV

Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.

Sir Thomas Browne

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity.

Charles Caleb Colton

The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes.

Aubrey Menen

If you want your eggs hatched, sit on them yourself.

Haitian Prove

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.

Czech Prove

I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.

Joseph Brodsky

As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.

Leonardo DaVinci

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - And you are the easiest person to fool.

Richard Feynman, Caltech commencement address, 1974

You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself.

Harvey Firestone

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

Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight. Equilibrium is pragmatic. You have to get everything into proportion. You compensate, rebalance yourself so that you maintain your angle to the world. When the world shifts, you shift.

Tom Stoppard

What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

This report, by its very length, defends itself against being read.

Winston Churchill

Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.

Oprah Winfrey

You cannot teach a man anything. you can only help him to find it for himself.

Galileo Galilei

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.

Miguel de Cervantes