Self Quotes

The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master - Something that at time strangely wills and works for itself.

Charlotte Bronte

In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Marechal Ferdinand Foch

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

Liberace

Let him that would move the world, first move himself.

Socrates

The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.

Giovanni Ruffini

I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world.

Russell Bake

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

Pablo Picasso

I have lost the half of myself? a soul for which mine was made.

Voltaire

It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.

Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957

Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being and only suffering teaches him this.

Simone Weil

Building castles in the air, and making yourself a laughing - Stock.

Miguel de Cervantes

He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.

Karl Kraus

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.

Brian Aldiss

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - - Making it possible to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

Susan Sontag

Other people may not have high expectations of me, But I have high expectations for myself.

Shannon Mille

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Happiness is a sunbeam, Which may pass through a thousand bosoms Without losing a particle of its original ray Nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, Like the converged light on a mirror, It reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Jane Porte

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

Sir Richard F. Burton

Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.

George Bernard Shaw

To thine own self be true -; And it must follow as the night the day; Thou canst not be false to any man.

William Shakespeare

I have impeached myself by resigning.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things First, a dissatisfaction with self - A felt void or need second, a decision to change - To fill the void or need and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change - The willful act of making the change Doing Something.

Dr.

There are two ways of meeting difficulties You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.

Phyllis Bottome

Help thyself, and God will help thee.

Jean de La Fontaine

The only difference between a madman and myself is that I am not mad.

Salvidor Dali

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

Ben Franklin

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

Epictetus

When you meet the president, you ask yourself, How did it ever occur to anybody that he should be governor much less president.

Henry Kissinge

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die and do not outlive yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.

Isaac Bashevis Singe

No man ever listened himself out of a job.

Calvin Coolidge

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.

Thomas H. Huxley

To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.

Richard Whately

He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.

Hesiod

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

The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self - Activity.

Thomas Carlyle

I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.

Kahlil Gibran, The Broken Wings