Self Quotes
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward in my actions and not from them.Hugh Prathe
Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.John MacNaughton
Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for beingWhy thou wert there, O rival of the roseI never sought to ask, I never knewBut, in my simple ignorance supposeThe selfsame power that brought me there brought you.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.Lord Acton
Toleration is the greatest gift of mind, it requires that same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.Hellen Kelle
He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self - Love seems so often unrequited.Anthony Powell
Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The opinions we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself.Marcel Proust
Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.Chinese Prove
The worst of all deceptions is self - Deception.Saul Bellow
We never get to love by hate, least of all by self - Hatred.Basil W. Maturin
The idea of an incarnation of God is absurd: why should the human race think itself so superior to bees, ants, and elephants as to be put in this unique relation to its maker? . . Christians are like a council of frogs in a marsh or a synod of worms on a dung - Hill croaking and squeaking for our sakes was the world created.Julian the Apostate
Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self - Knowledge if you explore them.Marilyn Ferguson
Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.Martin Luther King Jr.
Do you ever sit down and wonder what is wrong with the world Do you ever ask yourself why it is that Christians seem to have so little influence, why they seem to achieve so little, for all their numbers, in putting the world right To each of those two questions there is ultimately but one answer. It is this we lack the mind of Christ.J. Arthur Lewis
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.Bertolt Brecht
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - - And you are the easiest person to fool.Richard Phillips Feynman
Life itself is neither good nor evil, but only a place for good and evil.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.Gustave Flaubert
The art of advice is to make the recipient believe he thought the thought of it himself.Frank Tyge
No man is happy who does not think himself so.Publilius Syrus
Where talent is a dwarf, self - Esteem is a giant.J. Petit - Senn
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.E. B. White
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.Rainer Maria Rilke
Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself.Jean Francois Revel
The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and pride in self - Reliance. He is led no longer by Davy Crocketts he is led by cheer leaders, press agents, word mongers, uplifters.Henry Louis Mencken
On reflection, one of the things I needed to learn was to allow myself to be loved.Isha McKenzie - Mavinga
Never violate the sacredness of your individual self - Respect.Theodore Parke
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self - Seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.Bible, 1 Corinthians 13: 4 - 7
Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul None is more gladdening or fruitful than to know You can regenerate and make yourself what you will.William James
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.Joseph Addison
The reliance on property is... the want of self - Reliance. Men measure the esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is. But a cultivated man becomes ashamed of his property... Essays.Ralph Waldo Emerson
If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath - Breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.Thomas De Quincey, Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts - 1827
There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
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
I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.Lord Tennyson
