Self Quotes
Education is life itself.John Dewey
Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.Josiah Royce
He who despises himself esteems himself as a self - Despiser.Friedrich Nietzsche
This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self - Righteous isolation.John Dewey
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.Rainer Maria Rilke
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. you yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.Buddha
So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 4 scene 5
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.Oliver Wendell Holmes
I know all except myself.Francois Villon, Ballade des Menus Propres
Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid.William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
If you must hold yourself up to your children, hold yourself up as an object lesson and not as an example.Sir Walter Besant
Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.Ben Stein
The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action. There is no fixed teaching. All I can provide is an appropriate medicine for a particular ailment.Bruce Lee, Quotation from the book: (The Art of Jeet Kune Do) by Bruce Lee
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.E. B. White
Keep thy religion to thyself.George Carlin
There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.Proverbs 137 Bible
Toleration is the greatest gift of mind, it requires that same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.Hellen Kelle
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
Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who fights for his fellow - Man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.Clarence Darrow
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Epistle Dedicatory
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.Norman Vincent Peale
Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.Seneca
The art of advice is to make the recipient believe he thought the thought of it himself.Frank Tyge
Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.Sir Arthur Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World
Book dedication To myself, without whose inspired and tireless efforts this book would not have been possible.Al Jaffee
It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self - Centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self - Reliance
We must not just be in the world and above the world, but also of the world. To love it for what it is... is the only task. Avoid it and you are lost. Loose yourself in it, and you are free.Henry Miller, in a letter to Lawrence Durrell
I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.Carl Jung
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
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
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.Jim Morrison
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
This is the true joy in life - - Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one...George Bernard Shaw
The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.Stephen Nachmanovitch
If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up, that is exactly what you will be.Robert Collie
