Self Quotes
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.Henry Ward Beeche
No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.Seneca
A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.Jeanne - Marie Roland
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
Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.Johann von Goethe
Self - Conceit may lead to self - Destruction.Aesop, The Frog and the Ox
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.Will Rogers
I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.Walt Whitman
It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.W. Somerset Maugham
When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there... now instead of then.Blaise Pascal
Who to himself is law, no law doth need.Arthur Chapman
Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.G. C. Lichtenberg
If heaven is going to be full of people like Hardie, well, the Almighty can have them to himself.Sir Winston Churchill
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.Quintilian
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
Shun praise. Praise leads to self - Delusion. Thy body is not Self, thyself is in itself without a body, and either praise or blame affects it not.H Hahn Blavatsky
It is noble to teach oneself, but still nobler to teach others - - And less trouble. - Speech, 1906.Mark Twain
Patience with others is Love, Patience with self is Hope, Patience with God is Faith.Adel Bestavros
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
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.Kahlil Gibran
Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.Alice James
The world of the commodity is a world updside - Down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work.Raoul Vaneigem
No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.Greville
I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God.Sufi Prove
To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.David Viscott
Tell no one the secret that you want to keep, although he may be worthy of confidence; for no one will be so careful of your secret as yourself.Saadi, On the Duties of Society
We hold these truths to be self - Evident that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.US Declaration of Independence
Do you want to be a power in the world Then be yourself.Ralph Waldo Trine
I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time...Charles Dickens
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but that mark of a fake messiah.Richard Bach
Men should not trust in God as if God did all, and yet labor earnestly as is he himself did all.Allan K. Chalmers
Washington is like a self - Sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.Dean Acheson (1893 - 1971)
The way to develop self - Confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.William Jennings Bryan
People who are tremendously concerned about their identification, their individuality, their self - Expression, or their sense of humor, always seem to be missing the very things they pursue.Walter Lippmann
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.Henry David Thoreau
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
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.Ralph Waldo Emerson
