Self Quotes
To handle yourself, use your head To handle others, use your heart.Roosevelt, Eleano
Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.Thomas a Kempis
I do not think myself to be a worm, and a grub, grass of the field fit only to be burned, a clod, a morsel of putrid atoms that should be thrown to the dungheap, ready for the nethermost pit. Nor if I did should I therefore expect to sit with Angels and Archangels.Anthony Trollope
The honey from the flowers of the senses, Ever present within, ruler of time, Goes beyond fear. For this Self is Supreme.Maitri Upanishads
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.Albert Einstein
You can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search.Maxwell Maltz
I speak BASIC to clients, 1 - 2 - 3 to management, and mumble to myself.Anon.
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
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.Paul Tillich
Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.Ausonius
Self - Confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.Samuel Johnson
Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.Marva Collins
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.Agnes Repplie
If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity marry, and perpetuate his kind.Don Marquis
You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it. Better keep yourself clean and bright you are the window through which you must see the world.Sir Walter Besant
I thank God for my handicaps, for through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.Hellen Kelle
The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man and without this all other education is good for nothing.R. D. Hitchcock
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.Andre Maurois
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is nothing to fear but fear itself.Franklin D. Roosevelt
When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser.Whittaker Chambers
Where self - Interest is suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control that dries up the wellspring of initiative and creativity.Pope John Paul II
No really great man ever thought himself so.William Hazlitt
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
The most disturbing and wasteful emotions in modern life, next to fright, are those which are associated with the idea of blame, directed against the self or against others.Marilyn Ferguson
The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.Friedrich Nietzsche
Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make yourself a happier and more productive person.Dr. David M. Burns
The greatest productive force is human selfishness.Robert A. Heinlein
My friend, if I could give you one thing, I would wish for you the ability to see yourself as others see you. Then you would realize what a truly special person you are.B. A. Billingsly
The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.Thomas a Kempis
Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.Lord Chesterfield
Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.Elsa Maxwell, September 28, 1958
The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.Publilius Syrus
Preparation is not the enemy of success, but a dear friend. Be good to yourself and the favor will return.Samuel Cunningham
Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.Baltasar Gracian
As an athlete, when you least expect it, you may find yourself standing on the threshold of an accomplishment so monumental that it strikes fear into your soul. You must stand ready, at any moment, to face the unknown. You must be ready to walk boldly thru the wall of uncertainty.John "The Penguin" Bingham, The courage to start
Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.Desiderius Erasmus
