Self Quotes
Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good do good. Be kind be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.Swami Sivanada
Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.Buddha
That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
The difficult child is the child who is unhappy. He is at war with himself; and in consequence, he is at war with the world.A. S. Neill, Summerhill
The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes.Aubrey Menen
If you turn your back on these people, you yourself are an animal. You may be a well - Dressed animal, but you are nevertheless an animal.Edward Irving Koch
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.Cynthia Ozick
I believe that to meet the challenge of the next century, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. Each of us must learn to work not just for his or her own self, family or nation, but for the benefit of all mankind.His Holiness the Dalai Lama, speech? in 1994
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
Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be a blessing or a heavy burden?Alfred A. Montapert
As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.Joseph Conrad
Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.Dame Edna Everage, In a television interview with Joan Rivers
Formerly a public man needed a private secretary for a barrier between himself and the public. Nowadays he has a press secretary to keep him properly in the public eye.Daniel J. Boorstin
Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.William Shakespeare
Many politicians lay it down as a self - Evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.Lord Macaulay
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.Benjamin Spock
Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it sparkles in the setting of modest self - Distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive any injury.Author Unknown
Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure.Joseph Sugarman
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, although it is apt to fill a man with wind and self - Righteousness.Sir Robert Hutchison
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
So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.William Shakespeare
No man is demolished but by himself.Richard Bently
Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.John Sturart Mill, Defence of Hedonism
No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead. Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study, and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think.John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859
No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.Greville
The surest way to be deceived is to think oneself cleverer than the others.La Rochefoucauld
Gradualness, gradualness, and gradualness. From the very beginning of your work, school yourself to severe gradualness in the accumulation of knowledge.Ivon Petrovich Pavlov
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.Albert Einstein
Language exists only on the surface of our consciousness. The great human struggles are played out in silence and in the ability to express oneself.Franz Xavier Kroetz
Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself.Bertrand Russell
A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.Voltaire
The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself.James Thurbe
When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.Nancy Friday
You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself.Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Your mental attitude is someting you can control outright and you must use self - Discipline until you create a Positive Mental Attitude - - Your mental attitude attracts to you everything that makes you what you are.Napolean Hill
Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.Chinese Prove
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.George Bernard Shaw
