Self Quotes
If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself.Joseph Farrell
It could be said that the AIDS pandemic is a classic own - Goal scored by the human race against itself.Anne
I was like a boy playing on the sea - Shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.Isaac Newton
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.Alexander Hamilton
Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.Horace, Epistles
When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.Isaac Bashevis Singe
Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.Bernard M. Baruch
Responsiblity is a unique concept. It can only reside and inhere in a single individual. You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished. You may delegate it, but it is still with you. You may disclaim it, but you cannot divest yourself of it.Admiral Hyman Rickove
One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self - Criticism of a tired mind is suicide.Charles Horton Cooley
If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself.Horace
When your work speaks for itself, dont interrupt.Henry J. Kaise
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.Thomas Szasz
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
The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear.Felix Adle
Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers Love, nightmare - Like, lies heavy on my chest, And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers.William S. Gilbert
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die and do not outlive yourself.George Bernard Shaw
Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - And thus make yourself indispensable.Andre Gide
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.Samuel Johnson
Death in itself is nothing but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where.John Dryden
The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.Hasidic Saying
Man will do many things to get himself loved he will do all things to get himself envied.Mark Twain
A friend is a gift you give yourself.Robert Louis Stevenson
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill anothe.Alan Stewart Paton
The surest way to be deceived is to think oneself cleverer than the others.La Rochefoucauld
The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.Vince Lombardi
Ask yourself Have you been kind today Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.Annie Lennox
One of the self - Authenticating truths which we come at last to acknowledge is this strange fact that we know that for the evil in our lives we ourselves are responsible, but for the good God alone deserves the praise.John L. Casteel
Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, August 2004
He had a heart that could have held the empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar.Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera
To expect defeat is nine - Tenths of defeat itself.Francis Crawford
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
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.Friedrich Nietzsche
Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.Stephen Leacock, "Nonsense Novels", 1911
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.Norman Vincent Peale
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.Alan Watts
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.Stanislaus
