Self Quotes

One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.

Eric Hoffe

I bet the sparrow looks at the parrot and thinks, yes, you can talk, but LISTEN TO YOURSELF.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - In firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Seneca

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight and never stop fighting.

E e cummings

Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

Albert Camus

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 have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you started.

Marcus Garvey

A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only he himself can damage that. His reputations what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity.

John Ballantine Gough

There is no limit to stupidity. Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity.

Gene Wolfe

First mend yourself, and then mend others.

Jewish Prove

The sad news is, nobody owes you a career. Your career is literally your business. You own it as a sole proprietor. You have one employee: yourself. You need to accept ownership of your career, your skills and the timing of your moves.

Andrew Grove, Co - Founder and Chairman of Intel Corporation, Only the Paranoid Survive

Defining consultancy is a bit like defining the upper class every possible candidate draws the line just below himself.

John Peet

Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.

Tom Hopkins

Do definite good first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.

John Lancaster Spalding

An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself.

Albert Camus

For myself I am an optimist - It does not seem to be much use being anything else.

Sir Winston Churchill

As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self take the shape Of every creature in whom he is present.

Maitri Upanishads

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

Modesty and unselfishness - - These are the virtues which men praise - - And pass by.

Andr Maurois

If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death.

Sigmund Freud, his essay on war & death

Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

Joseph Addison

Honesty rare as a man without self - Pity, kinders as large and plain as a prairie wind.

Stephen Vincent Benet

Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.

Lao Tzu

He wrapped himself in quotations - As a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

Rudyard Kipling

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) Valley of Fear, 1915

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.

Pearl S. Buck

My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.

Cary Grant

We are more wicked together than separately. If you are forced to be in a crowd, then most of all you should withdraw into yourself.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A fanatic is one compelled to action by the need to find a strong meaning in life. The fanatic determines for himself what role he is to play in life, and his intense devotion to a cause is the means.

Eugene E. Brussell

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.

Saint Teresa of Avila

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.

Josh Billings

The way to final freedom is within thy self.

The Book of the Golden Precepts

Self - Conceit may lead to self - Destruction.

Aesop, The Frog and the Ox

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full - On metamorphosis.

Martha Beck, O Magazine, Growing Wings, January 2004

Wherever a set of alternative possible routes toward achieving a given end presents itself, a student movement will tend to choose the one which involves a higher measure of violence or humiliation directed against the older generation.

Lewis S Feue

A self - Balancing, 28 - Jointed adaptor - Based biped; an electro - Chemical reduction plant, integral with segregated stowages of special energy extracts in storage batteries, for subsequent actuation of thousands of hydraulic and pneumatic pumps, with motors attached; 62, 000 miles of capillaries....

R. Buckminster Fulle