Self Quotes

Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.

Earl of Chesterfield

I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles.

Anais Nin

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

Sir Winston Churchill

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Buddha

No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it... To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Thomas Jefferson

Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.

Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself and can never be erased.

Alexander Hamilton

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.

Lucille Ball

It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.

Betty Friedan

Do you ever sit down and wonder what is wrong with the world Do you ever ask yourself why it is that Christians seem to have so little influence, why they seem to achieve so little, for all their numbers, in putting the world right To each of those two questions there is ultimately but one answer. It is this we lack the mind of Christ.

J. Arthur Lewis

Instead of solid accomplishments, the man pursues pleasures and self - Gratification. He will never achieve anything so long as he is surrounded by dissipating temptations.

I Ching

Who to himself is law, no law doth need.

Arthur Chapman

Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure.

Joseph Sugarman

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

Publilius Syrus

Be not surprised if thou findest thyself in possession of unexpected wealth. Allah will provide an unexpected use for it.

James J. Roche

Conquering others takes force, conquering yourself is true strength.

Lao - Tzu

If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.

Alexandre Dumas, fils

The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.

Seneca

To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.

George Santayana

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.

William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you - - Out of love - - Takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice.

Dag Hammarskjld

When the reviews are bad, I tell myself that they can join me as I cry all the way to the bank.

Liberace

Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self - Esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.

Fritz Perls

I have no help to send, therefore I must go myself.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.

Alvin Toffle

There is nothing like returing to a place that remains uncganged to find how you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Aldous Huxley

It is impossible to go through life without trust That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

Graham Greene

The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.

Claude Levi - Strauss

Lord Ronald said nothing he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.

Stephen Leacock

I live in the crowds of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.

Samuel Johnson

I pride myself on the fact that my work has no socially redeeming value.

John Waters

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

Marcus Garvey

He for himself weaves woe who weaves for others woe, and evil counsel on the counselor recoils.

Hesiod

The reason of a resolution is more to be considered than the resolution itself.

Sir John Holt

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.

Charles De Gaulle

Happy is he who can give himself up.

Naguib Mahfouz