Self Quotes

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.
Adele Brookman
Albert einstein - there has already been published by the...
Titus maccius plautus, asinaria - practice yourself what you preach....
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Self - Pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.
John W. Gardne
The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself - Always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.
James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
Henry James
Self - Respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.
John Herschel
Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self - Knowledge if you explore them.
Marilyn Ferguson
To conquer others is to have power, to conquer yourself is to know the way.
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
I looked with chameleon eyes upon the changing face of the world, looked with anonymous vision upon my uncompleted self.
Anais Nin, House of Incest
Immanuel kant, critique of pure reason - human reason has this peculiar fate that in one...
Rather do what is nothing in the purpose than to be idle, that the devil may find thee doing. The bird that sits is easily shot when the fliers escape the fowler. Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all the virtues, and is the self - Made sepulcher of a living man.
Francis Quarles
My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.
Robert Browning
I have just returned from Boston. It is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there.
Fred Allen, in a letter to Groucho Marx, 1953
Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self - Confidence and your self - Doubt.
Kahlil Gibran
It is easy to bring others down to your level, Instead of bringing yourself up to their level, But it is never ever right.
Unknown
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
Benjamin Spock
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
Anna Freud
Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.
John W. Gardne
Self awareness is NOT just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.
Robert Anson Heinlein
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
Buddha
Nature is wont to hide herself.
Heraclitus, On the Universe
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 the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.
Edith Hamilton
The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents him; it is the lapidary who gives value to the diamond which the peasant has dug up without knowing its value.
Abbe Guillaume Raynal
But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.
Alfred North Whitehead
Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it.
George Santayana, Winds of Doctrine (1913) ch. 4
How anybody dresses is indicative of his self - Concept. If students are dirty and ragged, it indicates they are not interested in tidying up their intellects either.
S Hayakawa
Let a man strive to purify his thoughts. What a man thinketh, that is he this is the eternal mystery. Dwelling within himself with thoughts serene, he will obtain imperishable happiness.
Maitri Upanishads
Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.
Helena Rubinstein
Magic is believing in yourself. If you can do that, you can make anything happen.
Foka Gomez
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth and truth rewarded me.
Simone de Beauvoi
Why not be oneself That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound why try to look like a Pekinese.
Edith Sitwell
The worst of all deceptions is self - Deception.
Saul Bellow
A woman of honor should not expect of others things she would not do herself.
Marguerite de Valois
No man is free who is not master of himself.
Epictetus
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
Sir Richard F. Burton