Self Quotes

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

Do I contradict myself Very well then I contradict myself,

Walt Whitman

Sometimes when I look at my children I say to myself, Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.

Lillian Carter, mother of Jimmy and Billy

Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it.

Thaddeus Golas

Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.

Silius Italicus

Meditation... disolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass.

Tom Robbins

Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.

Saint Basil

The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.

C. S. Lewis

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

Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes reactionary.

Marshal Tito

I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - If I can remember any of the damn things.

Dorothy Parke

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

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight, very clean. When it arrives it is perfect. It puts itself in our hands. It hopes we learned something from yesterday.

Unknown, Epitaph on headstone of actor John Wayne (author unknown)

Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

Iris Murdoch

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

Lucille Ball

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II Scene 6

He is not laughed at who laughs at himself first.

Thomas Fulle

I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.

Meryl Streep

When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.

Charles De Gaulle

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

Albert Einstein

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

Elisabeth Kuebler - Ross

Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled to concentrate to accept conflict and tension to be born everyday to feel a sense of self.

Erich Fromm

Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

George Orwell

A man of understanding has lost nothing, if he has himself.

Michel de Montaigne

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

Agnes Repplie

History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.

Kahlil Gibran

Rigidly organized pre - School classrooms, which value obedience more than development, create the deficits in poor children, imposing a self - Image of marginality and failure.

Valerie Polakow

The planting of trees is the least self - Centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Thornton

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

You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice.

Ursula Le Guin

Conventionality is not morality. Self - Righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

Charlotte Bronte

The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong - Doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.

Cicero

Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our lives.

Sri Madhava

To be proud of virtue is to poison oneself with the antidote.

Benjamin Franklin, ?

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Johann von Goethe