Self Quotes

The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.

Oscar Wilde

Of all the self - Fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.

Marilyn Ferguson, The Aquarian Conspiracy, 1980

An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

George Orwell

He who despises himself nevertheless esteems himself as a self - Despiser.

Friedrich Nietzsche

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

One of the self - Authenticating truths which we come at last to acknowledge is this strange fact that we know that for the evil in our lives we ourselves are responsible, but for the good God alone deserves the praise.

John L. Casteel

Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, August 2004

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness to an opponent, tolerance to a friend, your heart to your child, a good example to a father, deference to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you to yourself, respect to all men, charity.

Francis Maitland Balfou

He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying.

Michel de Montaigne

A friend is somebody you want to be around when you feel like being by yourself.

Barbara Burrow

He who demands mercy and shows none burns the bridges over which he himself must later pass.

Thomas Adams

Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.

Kyle Chandle

A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.

Robert Burton

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

Jalal ud - Din Rumi

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

Henry Kissinge

Believe in something larger than yourself.

Barbara Bush

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

Heraclitus

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996

The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self - Two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.

Pope John Paul II

Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.

Marva Collins

Fear is nothing except a drain of energy and Not a power unto itself. Trust in yourself, For therein lies the true power.

Unknown

As an athlete, when you least expect it, you may find yourself standing on the threshold of an accomplishment so monumental that it strikes fear into your soul. You must stand ready, at any moment, to face the unknown. You must be ready to walk boldly thru the wall of uncertainty.

John "The Penguin" Bingham, The courage to start

He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.

Henry Taylo

A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.

Seneca

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.

Richard Bach

Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself.

Frank Crane

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.

Aldous Huxley

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.

Bernard M. Baruch

You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you - - The rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered.

Antoine de Saint - Exupery, The Little Prince

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

Augusten Burroughs, Magical Thinking

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

Niels Boh

There are pauses amidst study, and even pauses of seeming idleness, in which a process goes on which may be likened to the digestion of food. In those seasons of repose, the powers are gathering their strength for new efforts; as land which lies fallow recovers itself for tillage.

J. W. Alexande

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.

I Ching

First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ, 1420

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something.

Henry David Thoreau