Self Quotes
Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.Theodore Isaac Rubin
In summer, the song sings itself.William Carlos Williams
Few are agreeable in conversation, because each thinks of what he intends to say than of what others are saying, and listens no more when he himself has a chance to speak.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Promote yourself, but do not demote another.Israel Salante
It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.Queen Christina, of Sweden, 1629 - 1689
Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self - Governing people.Woodrow Wilson
He who is sorrowful can force himself to smile, but he who is glad cannot weep.Selma Lagerloef
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.Maya Angelou
History repeats itself and history never repeats itself are about equally trueWe never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.George Macaulay Trevelyan
Gradualness, gradualness, and gradualness. From the very beginning of your work, school yourself to severe gradualness in the accumulation of knowledge.Ivon Petrovich Pavlov
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.Mark Twain
There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living... a way in which life itself is sheer knowing.Laurens Van der Post, Venture to the Interior (1951)
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.Mark Twain
Courage consists of the power of self - Recovery.Julie Arabi
Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self - Respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.Thomas Huxley
I check myself every day just to make sure this is the same person.Tony Kanal
Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.Robert Ingersoll
Eliminating what is not wanted or needed is profitable in itself.Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
Know, first, who you are and then adorn yourself accordingly.Epictetus
I think that their flight from and hatred of technology is self - Defeating. The Buddha rests quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer of the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha - - which is to demean oneself.Robert M. Pursig, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance".
I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, and receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.Woody Allen
Money is human happiness in the abstract he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.Arthur Schopenhaue
Self - Respect is the fruit of discipline the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.Rabbi Abraham Heschel
We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - - For no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self - Love.William Hazlitt
Washington is like a self - Sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.Dean Acheson (1893 - 1971)
Somehow he Tim gets thoughtful sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant for them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see.Charles Dickens
Where there is a will there is a way, is an old and true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement. To think we are able, is almost to be so - To determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.Samuel Smiles
Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences of life.Gottfried Reinhardt
He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.John Milton
Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
Occasionally, I have to think like myself to remember where I put something.Sue S. Taylo
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.Epictetus
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.William Shakespeare, "As You Like It", Act 5 scene 1
If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.Sidney Madwed
The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.Mark Twain
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.Seneca
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
