Self Quotes

I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me instead of looking within myself to see what was there.

Belle Livingstone

There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulities or you alter yourself to meet them.

Phyllis Battone

No one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Charles Dudley Warne

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself First, what could I do Second, what could I read And third, who could I ask.

Jim Rohn

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

Kahlil Gibran

No man resolved to make the most of himself has time to waste on personal contention.

Abraham Lincoln

What you love is a sign from your higher self of what you are to do.

Sanaya Roman

However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society.

Henry David Thoreau

Let us forever forget that every station in life is necessarily that each deserves our respect; that not the station itself; but the worthy fulfillment of its duties does honor the man.

Mary Lyon

It is noble to teach oneself, it is still nobler to teach others.

Mark Twain

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.

Joel Hawes

So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.

Francois Rabelais, 1532

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996

As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self - Destroying.

Arthur C. Clarke

Nature herself makes the wise man rich.

Cicero

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

Woodrow Wilson

I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cut - Throat, competitive world in which I spent my life.

Anthony Perkins

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

Charlie Chaplin

People are unreasonable, illogical, and self - Centered. Love them anyway.

Mother Theresa

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands upon himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

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

Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.

Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to J. M. Cutts, October 26, 1863

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

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

Albert Camus

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell.

Edna St. Vincent Millay, Letters, 1952

Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.

Sir John Gielgud

Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.

Eric Hoffe

It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to be kind to another, without helping himself.

Bailey

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

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

Confucius, Analects, XV. 24

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

James Arthur Baldwin

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

Thomas Carruthers

As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.

Adelle Davis

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect he becomes an adolescent the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult the day he forgives himself he becomes wise.

Alden Nowlan

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

Anna Quindlen