Self Quotes

Knowing others is intelligence knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.
Lao Tzu
Voltaire - i have lost the half of myself? a soul for which...
My business is not to remake myself, But make the absolute best of what God made.
Robert Browning
Diogenes - as a matter of self - preservation, a man needs...
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
George Bernard Shaw
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world.
Thomas Carlyle
Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.
Alexis Carrel
About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.
Michael Caine, www. aint - It - Cool - News. com
Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.
Jane Wagne
But I have always liked bird dogs better than kennel - Fed dogs myself - - You know, one that will get out and hunt for food rather than sit on his fanny and yell.
Charles E. Wilson
No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.
Seneca
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
Hunter S. Thompson
John mui - when we try to pick out anything by itself, we...
Experience is an asset of which no worker can be cheated, no matter how selfish or greedy his immediate employer may be.
Napolean Hill
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
History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.
Kahlil Gibran
Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.
Alice James
Know thyself? A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly.
Andre Gide
Formal education will make you a living self - Education will make you a fortune.
Jim Rohn
To thine own self be true -; And it must follow as the night the day; Thou canst not be false to any man.
William Shakespeare
It is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self - Consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since mathematics, in its own way, also performs this function, it is not only aesthetically charming but profoundly significant. It is an art, and a great art.
John W. N. Sullivan
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
Welsh Prove
There is more learning in the question itself than the answer.
Andrew Weremy
He is a self - Made man, very much in love with his creator.
Benjamin Disraeli
Enjoy things which are pleasant; that is not the evil: it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
Thomas Carlyle
It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out.
Judith Rossne
I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
Franz Kafka
Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place.
Jennifer Aniston
Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.
John Stuart Mill
Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.
Plato
Above all be true to yourself, and if you can not put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.
Hardy D. Jackson
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
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
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
Elie Wiesel
Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.
Kyle Chandle
The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.
Shirley MacLaine
Each bird loves to hear himself sing.
Arapaho Prove
The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.
Robyn Davidson
The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.
Giovanni Ruffini
Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life, it is life itself.
Henry Havelock Ellis