Self Quotes
Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.Elsa Maxwell, September 28, 1958
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene 3
The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great man were made by his fortune, his enemies by himself, and revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude.C. C. Colton
First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - Nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933
I define comfort as self - Acceptance. When we finally learn that self - Care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.Jennifer Louden
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.Thomas Jefferson
Instead of solid accomplishments, the man pursues pleasures and self - Gratification. He will never achieve anything so long as he is surrounded by dissipating temptations.I Ching
All the blessings which you pray to obtain hereafter could be yours today, if you did not deny them to yourself.Marcus Aurelius, Meditations? Book Twelve
For the sake of peace one may lie, but peace itself should never be a lie.The Talmud
There is an atmosphere of well - Sounding oratory that likes to attach itself to dress clothes. Away with it.Albert Einstein
This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Everything is connected... no one thing can change by itself.Paul Hawken
As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.Adelle Davis
The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.George Washington Allston
A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate.La Rochefoucauld
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.Mark Twain
If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.Marvin Gaye
The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.John W. Gardne
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.Sophia Loren
A decision is the action an executive must take when he has information so incomplete that the answer does not suggest itself.Arthur W. Radford
Know, first, who you are and then adorn yourself accordingly.Epictetus
He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.Numbers 63 Bible Hebrew
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.Andre Maurois
If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself.Horace
However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.Henry David Thoreau
The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.Mark Twain
The pain of a disappointed wish necessarily produces less effect upon the mind if a man has not certainly promised himself success. - De Tranquillitate Animi.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, September 2002
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.Alec Waugh
It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in the way of treating people with kindness and decency. The point is no that they will then be nice to you. It is that you will feel better about yourself.Robert Solow
If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself. Minquass.American Indian Prove
Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man.... such a man is a true gentleman.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.Baltasar Gracian
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.Eleanor Roosevelt
If you must hold yourself up to your children, hold yourself up as an object lesson and not as an example.Sir Walter Besant
