Self Quotes

Self - Trust is the essence of heroism.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense, we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.

Anna Jameson

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

Ronald Reagan

Meetings are an addictive, highly self - Indulgent activity that corporations and other organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.

Alain van der Heide

There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it.

George Santayana, Winds of Doctrine (1913) ch. 4

I do not know what I may appear to the world but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in 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

Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great Argument About it and about but evermore Came out by the same Door as in I went.

Omar Khayym

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.

Mark Caine

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

George Bernard Shaw

Greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.

William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating

A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self - Addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.

Ring Lardner, "How to Write Short Stories".

Whoever is open, loyal, true of humane and affable demeanour honourable himself, and in his judgement of others faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man.... such a man is a true gentleman.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.

Jacopo Sannazaro

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Leo Tolstoy

Affirmations are like prescriptions for certain aspects of yourself you want to change.

Jerry Frankhause

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so - Called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

J. B. Priestley

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

Charles Dudley Warne

I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

Groucho Marx

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

Anna Freud

Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou are not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will?

Thomas a Kempis

Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle is a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifests itself in the form of a feeling.

Nathaniel Brandon

He that plants trees loves others besides himself.

English Prove

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.

Cicero

Know thyself.

Thales, (The Seven Sages) from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.

Jane Wagne

Experience does not ever err. It is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your experiments.

Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks

In the choice of a horse and a wife, a man must please himself, ignoring the opinion and advice of friends.

George John Whyte - Melville

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely for science is but one.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A good intention clothes itself with power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

Thomas Carruthers

Mediocrity does not see higher than itself. But talent instantly recognizes the genius.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Albert Einstein

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.

Francis Quarles

No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.

William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating

I speak BASIC to clients, 1 - 2 - 3 to management, and mumble to myself.

Anon.