Self Quotes
I was taught very early that I would have to depend entirely upon myself that my future lay in my own hands.Darius Ogden Mills
Self - Respect permeates every aspect of your life.Joe Clark
Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables, Leaving her wedding - Garlands to decay - - Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses.Charles Kingsley
There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulities or you alter yourself to meet them.Phyllis Battone
To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself.Henry Miller, The Colossus of Maroussi
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
The only gift is a portion of thyself.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.Froude
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A bird will fall frozen dead from the bow of a ship without ever having felt sorry for itself.D. H. Lawerence
Death in itself is nothing but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where.John Dryden
Nothing is easier than self - Deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.Demosthenes, Third Olynthiac
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.Hasidic Saying
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.Thomas Jefferson
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.George Bernard Shaw
What you love is a sign from your higher self of what you are to do.Sanaya Roman
As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.Joseph Conrad
Habit, my friend, is practice long pursued, that at last becomes man himself.Evenus
When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray
Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good do good. Be kind be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.Swami Sivanada
It really doesnt matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.Real Live Preache
To find yourself, think for yourself.Socrates, The Apology
My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.Robert Browning
Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.Alfred North Whitehead
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.James Thurber, in Edward R. Murrow television interview
If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure.Dietrich Bonhoeffe
Blessed are they who heal you of self - Despisings. Of all services which can be done to man, I know of none more precious.William Hale White
We can begin by noting that the body prefers to keep itself alive.John Tierney, Esquire, August 1981
You want to raise your child in such a way that you don? t have to control him, so that he will be in full possession of himself at all times. Upon that depends his good behavior, his health, his sanity.L. Ron Hubbard, Book: Child Dianetics
You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose.Jo Coudert, "Advice From A Failure".
The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it.Mack R. Douglas
Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.Jesse Stuart
An ambassador is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country; a news - writer is a man without virtue who lies at home for himself.Sir Henry Wotton, "Reliquae Wottonianae".
The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.Roger Banniste
About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.Michael Caine, www. aint - It - Cool - News. com
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.Eleanor Roosevelt
A human being is an animal suspended in webs of significance which he himself has spun.Clifford Geertz, "Cultural Anthropology" by Nanda
