Self Quotes

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.

Robert Fritz

Self - Trust, we know, is the first secret of success.

Lady Wilde

Self - Loving is not so vile a sin, my liege, as self - Neglecting.

William Shakespeare

Are you bored with life Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Dale Carnegie

A man is as old as he feels himself to be.

English Prove

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.... God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Pierre Charron

Think and feel yourself there! To achieve any aim in life, you need to project the end - Result. Think of the elation, the satisfaction, the joy! Carrying the ecstatic feeling will bring the desired goal into view.

Grace Speare

Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light.

Baltasar Gracian

The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.

Jacob Bronowski, 1976

Language exists only on the surface of our consciousness. The great human struggles are played out in silence and in the ability to express oneself.

Franz Xavier Kroetz

The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of an endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.

Robyn Davidson

Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.

Joel Hawes

Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.

Cynthia Ozick

Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self - Righteousness.

Sir Robert Hutchinson

When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.

Thomas Jefferson

There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.

George Sarton, History of Science

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

Cicero, De Amicitia

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

Kurt Vonnegut

When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.

Oscar Wilde, Jack from The Importance of Being Earnest

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

He alone is wise who can accommodate himself to all contingencies of life; but the fool contends, and struggling, like a swimmer, against the stream.

Latin

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self - Satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

John Wooden

The mirror never sees itself. The reflection never is itself.

J. Gregory Keyes, "Babylon 5: Dark Genesis: The Birth of the Psi Corps".

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself.

John Harold

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

Napolean Hill

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

Sir Thomas Browne

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - - And you are the easiest person to fool.

Richard Phillips Feynman

Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial.

Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

I still have a lot to learn - About the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting.

Britney Spears

You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentrate on being happy with yourself as you are.

J. Jacques, Questionable Content webcomic, #352, 05 - 04 - 05

Frost You may wake up one day and find yourself extinct.

Blade

To be nobody - But - Yourself - - In a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - - Means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.

E e cummings

The root of fear is the death of yourself or someone you care about, but this will inevitably happen since we are only mortal, so why fea.

Unknown

In your clothes avoid too much gaudiness do not value yourself upon an embroidered gown and remember that a reasonable word, or an obliging look, will gain you more respect than all your fine trappings.

Sir George Savile

The academic mind can eat away the very basis of its own assurance... produce contortions when it tries to bend over backward... allow itself to be dismayed by the picture it has created of relentless historical process.

Herbert Butterfield

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

George Sand

Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide he exposes himself.

Jeanne Moreau