Self Quotes
I hate mankind, for I think of myself as one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.Samuel Johnson
To be in love Is to touch with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.Gwendolyn Brooks
Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.Desiderius Erasmus
When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.Edith Hamilton
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.Joseph Campbell
If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death.Sigmund Freud, his essay on war & death
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.Norman Vincent Peale
You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.Florida Scott - Maxwell, Oprah Magazine, May 2004
I thank God for my handicaps, for through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.Hellen Kelle
The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun - Illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?Edwin Markham
As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.Maitri Upanishads
Before a man can wake up and find himself famous he has to wake up and find himself.Author Unknown
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.Epictetus
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
When money is seen as a solution for every problem, money itself becomes the problem.Richard Needham
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
I live in the crowds of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.Samuel Johnson
The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.Shirley MacLaine
A man can know nothing of mankind without knowing something of himself. Self - Knowledge is the property of that man whose passions have their full play, but who ponders over their results.Benjamin Disraeli
No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.Pythagorus
I was never less alone than while by myself.Edward Lawrence Gibson
It is a base thing to look to others for your defense instead of depending upon yourself. That defense alone is effectual, sure, and durable which depends upon yourself and your own valor.Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.Henry David Thoreau
When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness. To seek treasures where there is only trash... Too much sanity may be madness, and maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.Miguel De Cervantes, Don Quixote de la Mancha
I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that, without very much bloodshed, it might be done.John Brown, last words in a written note given to his jailer, Dec. 2, 1859
Self awareness is NOT just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.Robert Anson Heinlein
What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.Confucius
Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.Samuel Adams
Self - Confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.Samuel Johnson
If your house is on fire, warm yourself by it.Danish prove
It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one but the success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest better lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune...Samuel Smiles
He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.Raymond Hull
He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.Benjamin Franklin
If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished. Proposal to reform welfare programs.Richard Milhous Nixon
Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.Theodore Isaac Rubin
The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.Friedrich Nietzsche
Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self - Made laws.Sir Richard Francis Burton
