Self Quotes
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery; none but ourselves can free our minds.Bob Marley
Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.Cicero
The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless. The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.William Franklin Billy Graham
He who ignores discipline despises himself, but whoever heeds correction gains understanding.Proverbs 1532 Bible
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
He who makes a beast of himself relieves himself the pain of being a man.Hunter S. Thompson
Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.Sir Walter Raleigh
No man is demolished but by himself.Richard Bently
I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.William Harvey
Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.John MacNaughton
Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream - A scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows - Is essentially poetry.Jesse Louis Jackson
Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood.Louise Beal
Experience shows that success is due less to ability that to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.Charles Buxton
It is the part of a wise man to keep himself to - Day for to - Morrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.Miguel de Cervantes
If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
He who conquers others is strong He who conquers himself is mighty.Lao Tzu
Sometimes you have to play for a long time to be able to play like yourself.Miles Davis
Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.Johann Georg von Zimmermann
I look at my myself and see a stone, I look at my friends and see gold, But I look at you, and see a gem.Unknown
As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.Joseph Conrad
Self - Love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing people a favor, and vise versa.Dr. Karl A. Menninge
Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.Dr. David M. Burns
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.Henry Ward Beeche
All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.Saint Augustine
This quote reminds me to enjoy each moment of the summer Steep thyself in a bowl of summertime.Virgil
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
Know thyself, said the old philosopher, improve thyself, saith the new. Our great object in time is not to waste our passions and gifts on the things external that we must leave behind, but that we cultivate within us all that we can carry into the eternal progress beyond.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
Do I contradict myself Very well then I contradict myself,Walt Whitman
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.Michel de Montaigne
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.Charles Austin Beard, historian
Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.Sir Thomas Browne
Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.William S. Burroughs
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.Quintilian
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.Nathaniel Hawthorne
N. B. Fear itself. See also H. D. Thoreau.Franklin D. Roosevelt
When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy.Anon.
Adventure is worthwhile in itself.Amelia Earhart
