Self Quotes

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

J. K. Rowling

I don? t really do New Year? s resolutions because I don? t think you should have to wait until December to start working on how to change yourself. I think if you? ve got a problem, you need to fix it now.

Clay Aiken

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.

Pope John Paul II

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

Graham Greene

Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.

Eric Hoffe

The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self - Respect, dignity, integrity, and self - Esteem.

Dr. Laura Schlessinge

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

William Shenstone

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

H. L. Mencken

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

When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself.

Luigi Pirandello

Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.

Judy Garland, to her daughter, Liza Minelli

A woman of honor should not expect of others things she would not do herself.

Marguerite de Valois

The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of Hell and a hell of Heaven.

John Milton, Dr. Faustus

Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers Love, nightmare - Like, lies heavy on my chest, And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers.

William S. Gilbert

A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.

Chinua Achebe

The academic mind can eat away the very basis of its own assurance... produce contortions when it tries to bend over backward... allow itself to be dismayed by the picture it has created of relentless historical process.

Herbert Butterfield

I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me.

Anwar el - Sadat

Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self - Inflicted fate.

Albert Einstein

Once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing and from robbing he comes next to drinking and sabbath - Breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.

Thamas De Quincey

Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self - Made laws.

Sir Richard Francis Burton

Wherever a set of alternative possible routes toward achieving a given end presents itself, a student movement will tend to choose the one which involves a higher measure of violence or humiliation directed against the older generation.

Lewis S Feue

Experience is an asset of which no worker can be cheated, no matter how selfish or greedy his immediate employer may be.

Napolean Hill

There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know these things.

Hal Borland

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus, Miles Gloriosus

First make yourself unpopular, then people will take you seriously.

Konrad Adenauer, 1876 - 1967

When you cannot get a compliment any other way pay yourself one.

Mark Twain

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

Albert Schweitze

The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self - Love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self - Absorption.

Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

A bachelor is a selfish, undeserving guy who has cheated some woman out of a divorce.

Don Quinn

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Christine Bovee

Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.

Sir Arthur Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts.

Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others with out getting a few drops on yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The very fact of its finding itself in agreement with other minds perturbs it, so that it hunts for points of divergence, feeling the urgent need to make it clear that at least it reached the same conclusions by a different route.

Herbert Butterfield

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.

Bjarne Stroustrup

If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.

Sebastien - Roch Nicolas

I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself. My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon