Self Quotes
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.Abraham Lincoln
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
Of all the self - Fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.Marilyn Ferguson, The Aquarian Conspiracy, 1980
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.Henry Van Dyke
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
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheefully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait... And as to you, Life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.Walt Whitman
Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.Baltasar Gracian
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
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery; none but ourselves can free our minds.Bob Marley
The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun - Illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?Edwin Markham
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.Sir Winston Churchill
Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say to myself, Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.Lillian
There is an atmosphere of well - Sounding oratory that likes to attach itself to dress clothes. Away with it.Albert Einstein
The soul who meditates on the Self is content to serve the Self and rests satisfied within the Self there remains nothing more for him to accomplish.Bhagavad Gita
For want of self - Restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross - Grained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self - Control.Smiles
Practice yourself what you preach.Titus Maccius Plautus, Asinaria
Have no friends not equal to yourself.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.Hermann Hesse
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.Marcus Aurelius
If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.Alexandre Dumas, fils
I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.Sylvia Plath
I bet the sparrow looks at the parrot and thinks, yes, you can talk, but LISTEN TO YOURSELF.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
If you want your eggs hatched, sit on them yourself.Haitian Prove
A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.Alec Waugh
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.Thomas H. Huxley
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self - Restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.Theodore Roosevelt
The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.... God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.Pierre Charron
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.George Gurdjieff
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.Jean Anouilh
Do not try to fight a lion if you are not one yourself.African Prove
Do not let people put you down. Believe in yourself and stand for yourself and trust yourself.Jacob Neusne
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.George Bernard Shaw
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - Especially when one is right.Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
What you love is a sign from your higher self of what you are to do.Sanaya Roman
A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - That is myself.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, "Meditations", book 2.
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, September 2002
