Self Quotes

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self - Confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

Arnold Bennett

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

Calvin Coolidge

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

Norman Vincent Peale

The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself.

Noam Chomsky, Ruth Anshen, Biography of an Idea (Mt. Kisco, NY: Moyer Bell Limited, 1986), pg. 196

I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Boldness in itself is genius.

L. Ron Hubbard

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? - A hoax fabricated by poets for their self - Importance.

Jean Anouilh

To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love in order that I may be loved back again, but for the creative joy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at least a little, by the outgoing of love, from enslavement to that most intolerable of master, myself.

Bernard Iddings Bell

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

Groucho Marx

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self - Complacent is erroneous - - On the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. It is failure that makes people bitter and cruel.

W. Somerset Maugham

Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Malice sucks up the greater part of her own venom, and poisons herself.

Michel de Montaigne

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self - Distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.

Amos Bronson Alcott

The secret source of humour itself is not joy, but sorrow. There is no humour in heaven.

Mark Twain

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

Arnold Toynbee

No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.

Saint John Chrysostom, Letter to Olympia

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

Foster C. McClellan

All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self - Evident.

Arthur Schopenhaue

Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be a blessing or a heavy burden?

Alfred A. Montapert

Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber.

Ugo Betti

Learn to limit yourself, to content yourself with some definite thing, and some definite work; dare to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not and to believe in your own individuality.

Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.

W. Somerset Maugham

I believe this nation should commit itself, to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.

John F. Kennedy, in a speech on May 25, 1961

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills.

Kahlil Gibran

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.

Samuel Johnson

To find yourself, think for yourself.

Socrates, The Apology

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes. It may even lie on the surface; but we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions? especially selfish ones.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Peace and Violence, sct. 2, in Index, no. 4 (London, 1973.

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

Johnson

You cannot stand anywhere in the universe that is outside of yourself.

Deepak Chopra

Human nature is not of itself vicious.

Thomas Paine

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.

Cynthia Heimel

He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.

Raymond Hull

I began by telling the president that there was a cancer growing on the presidency and that if the cancer was not removed... the president himself would be killed by it.

John Dean

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self - Interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self - Love, and never talk to them of our own neccessities but of their advantages.

Adam Smith