Self Quotes

Fred allen - my father never raised his hand to any one of his...
This above all to thine own self be true.
William Shakespeare
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Oscar Wilde
There is nothing like returing to a place that remains uncganged to find how you yourself have altered.
Nelson Mandela
Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.
Niels Henrik David Boh
For myself I am an optimist - - It does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
He who carries out one good deed acquires one advocate in his own behalf, and he who commits one transgression acquires one accuser against himself. Repentance and good works are like a shield against calamity.
The Talmud
Jules ormont - a great leader never sets himself above his...
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?
Rabbi Hillel
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.
Alexander Hamilton
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
If I ever reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there first, to meet some I had not thought to see there second, to miss some I had expected to see there and third, the greatest wonder of all, to find myself there.
John Newton
Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self - Confidence and your self - Doubt.
Kahlil Gibran
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self - Evident.
Arthur Schopenhaue
Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside yourself.
Jacob Bigelow
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
How can we expect another to keep our secret, if we cannot keep it ourself.
La Rochefoucauld
But he that is the greatest among you shall be your servant. And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abused and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.
Matthew 2311, 12 Bible
I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.
Oscar Levant
I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.
William Harvey
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.
Kahlil Gibran
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
Leszezynski Stanislaus
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
Franz Kafka
Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences of life.
Gottfried Reinhardt
Judge thyself with the judgment of sincerity, and thou will judge others with the judgment of charity.
John Mitchell Mason
He is most cheated who cheats himself.
Danish Prove
In history as in life it is success that counts. Start a political upheaval and let yourself be caught, and you will hang as a traitor. But place yourself at the head of a rebellion and gain your point, and all future generations will worship you as the Father of their Country.
Hendrik W. Van Loon
Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.
Seneca
Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself.
Liberace
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it sparkles in the setting of modest self - Distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive any injury.
Author Unknown
I have no help to send, therefore I must go myself.
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
A threat is basically a means for establishing a bargaining position by inducing fear in the subject. When a threat is used, it should always be implied that the subject himself is to blame by using words such as You leave me no other choice but to...
CIA Manual
The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing.
R. D. Hitchcock
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
What is life It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
Crowfoot
Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.
John Updike
Man is a make - Believe animal - He is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
William Hazlitt
And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that of yourself which you yet know not of.
William Shakespeare
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