Self Quotes

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 little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - That is myself.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, "Meditations", book 2.

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

Josh Billings

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

Paul Tillich

Always be a first - Rate version of yourself, instead of a second - Rate version of somebody else.

Judy Garland

I have great faith in fools; self - Confidence, my friends call it.

Edgar Allan Poe

A competent and self - Confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

Robert Anson Heinlein

Once in a while you have to take a break and visit yourself.

Audrey Giorgi

The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall to - Day be uppermost.

Confucius

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong.

Jane Austen

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

What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.

Roland Barthes, Esprit

The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.

Sonya Friedman

And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheefully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait... And as to you, Life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.

Walt Whitman

If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.

Alexandre Dumas, fils

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

Brenda Ueland

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

Sir Winston Churchill

You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it. Better keep yourself clean and bright you are the window through which you must see the world.

Sir Walter Besant

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.

James Stephens

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Epistle Dedicatory

Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.

Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

Benjamin Jowett

But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.

Alfred North Whitehead

It is the highest form of self - Respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.

Dr. Dale E. Turne

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

Jean Anouilh

I shall despair. There is no creature loves me; And if I die no soul will pity me: And wherefore should they, since that I myself Find in myself no pity to myself?

William Shakespeare, Richard III, V. iii

You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide - Sounding Zeus puts a good mind.

Homer, The Iliad

I began by telling the president that there was a cancer growing on the presidency and that if the cancer was not removed... the president himself would be killed by it.

John Dean

The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.

Thomas a Kempis

A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.

William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating

America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant.

Garry Trudeau

No man is free who is not master of himself.

Epictetus

A man, to be greatly good, must magine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and in many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.

John Milton

Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou are not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will.

Thomas a Kempis

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self - Confidence.

Robert Frost

We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and you must win.

Edward Gibbon

We have to remember that what we observe is not nature in itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

Werner Heisenberg