Self Quotes
My friend, if I could give you one thing, I would wish for you the ability to see yourself as others see you. Then you would realize what a truly special person you are.B. A. Billingsly
The self is not something ready - Made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.John Dewey
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.Mark Twain
The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.Joseph Sobran
Few are agreeable in conversation, because each thinks of what he intends to say than of what others are saying, and listens no more when he himself has a chance to speak.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.Voltaire
He who is sorrowful can force himself to smile, but he who is glad cannot weep.Selma Lagerloef
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
A friend is, as it were, a second self.Cicero, De Amicitia
To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.Sylvia Plath, The Bell Ja
Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.Rita Mae Brown
I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me instead of looking within myself to see what was there.Belle Livingstone
This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.Voltaire
Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth.Edgar Watson Howe
Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed.Solomon Short
When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer - Say traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep - It is on such occasions that my ideas flow best, and most abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not, nor can I force them...Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.Rebecca West
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
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.George Bernard Shaw
The real tradegy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort - He never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.Arnold Bennett
One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.Blaise Pascal
Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.Jean Jacques Rousseau
Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.Mortimer Adle
The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world.Max Born
Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.Saint Augustine
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
The soul who meditates on the Self is content to serve the Self and rests satisfied within the Self there remains nothing more for him to accomplish.Bhagavad Gita
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.Josh Billings
Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.Ausonius
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.Sophy Burnham
You cannot dream yourself into a character you must hammer and forge yourself one.James A. Froude
Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.Samuel Johnson
Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.Josiah Royce
Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffered Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night - She was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question - Is this all.Betty Naomi Friedan
N. B. Fear itself. See also H. D. Thoreau.Franklin D. Roosevelt
Many politicians lay it down as a self - Evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.Lord Macaulay
For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life.Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Duties I
