Self Quotes

Thomas a kempis - love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble,...
Henry david thoreau - do not be too moral. you may cheat yourself out...
Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.
Chinese Prove
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
Henry Van Dyke
Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes reactionary.
Marshal Tito
The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.
Sonya Friedman
A man who works beyond the surface of things, though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way for others and may make even his errors subservient to the cause of truth.
Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry Into The Sublime and Beautiful
Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.
John Lancaster Spalding
The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.
John W. Gardne
Edward bulwer - lytton - refuse to be ill. never tell people you are ill...
He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self - Love seems so often unrequited.
Anthony Powell
An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.
Maurice Masterlinck
Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.
Charles Dickens
Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous. But to an even greater degree than the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of carelessness, incapacity, or neglect.
Anonymous
A good intention clothes itself with power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is not meaningful to us unless serving an end beyond itself, unless it is of value to someone else.
Abraham J. Herschel
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
Edward Bulwer - Lytton
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
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
Mark Twain
Whoever despises himself still respects himself as one who despises.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil aphorism 78
By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self - Denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?
Jackie Mason
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
Elisabeth Kuebler - Ross
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
Vigny, more secretAs if in his tower of ivory, retired before noon. N. B. Vigny refers to Comte de Vigny, who locked himself in an ivory tower to work without the influences of man and desire.
Charles Augustin Sainte - Beauve
The only place you will be accepted is the place you make for yourself.
Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992
Look at the bow in the cloud, in the very rain itself. That is a sign that the sun, though you cannot see it, is shining still - - That up above beyond the cloud is still sunlight and warmth and cloudless blue sky.
Charles Kingsley
We are survival machines - Robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.
Richard Dawkings:, "The Selfish Gene".
If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.
D. L. Moody
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
You cannot dream yourself into a character you must hammer and forge yourself one.
James A. Froude
I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all.
Jules Renard
Meetings are an addictive, highly self - Indulgent activity that corporations and other organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
Alain van der Heide
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.
Wystan Hugh Auden
I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government but civilization itself.
Gerald R. Ford, Inaugural Address, 9 August 1974
The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.
Charles Peguy
A man can know nothing of mankind without knowing something of himself. Self - Knowledge is the property of that man whose passions have their full play, but who ponders over their results.
Benjamin Disraeli
It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you can make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost....
Richard Bach
You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.
John Ruskin