Self Quotes

Robert m. pursig,
Under peaceful conditions the militant man attacks himself.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
Hermann Hesse
Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to knowledge, has proved potentially dangerous, because it has not been accompanied by equal gains in self - Understanding and self - Discipline.
Lewis Mumford
William franklin billy graham - the most eloquent prayer is the prayer through...
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
John morley - they are the guiding oracles which man has found...
Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
Henry James
Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.
Adele Brookman
A greedy man will always find himself in the shackles of humility.
Imam Ali, Peak of Eloquence (Nahjul Balagha)
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
George Bernard Shaw
One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, Have a nice day.
Peter Brodie
A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.
Voltaire
No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it... To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.
Thomas Jefferson
It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain and some of our griefs... have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all.
Miguel de Cervantes
I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
Samuel Johnson
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
Abraham Lincoln
The spirit is the true self.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
Sigmund Freud
The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.
John Ciardi
Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.
Lao Tzu
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world.
Thomas Carlyle
I demand more of myself than anyone else could ever expect.
Julius Irving
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving.
Albert Einstein
The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others.
Hazlitt
I looked with chameleon eyes upon the changing face of the world, looked with anonymous vision upon my uncompleted self.
Anais Nin, House of Incest
One must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Nelson Mandela
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitalitythe supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
When an American says that he loves his country, he... means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self - Respect.
Adlai Ewing Stevenson
Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.
Mary Hemingway
To be nobody - But - Yourself - - In a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - - Means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
E e cummings
Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.
Bernard M. Baruch
Life itself is a quotation.
Jorge Luis Borges
I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
Albert Einstein
If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself.
John Milton
Promote yourself, but do not demote another.
Israel Salante
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 Frdric Amiel