Self Quotes
Eliminating what is not wanted or needed is profitable in itself.Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter.Ralph Waldo Emerson
More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.Daniel J. Boorstin
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
Self - Help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself.Morarji Ranchhodji Desai
Psychoanalysis is that mental illnes for which it regards itself a therapy.Karl Kraus
A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only he himself can damage that. His reputations what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity.John Ballantine Gough
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.Joaquin Setanti
We hold these truths to be self - Evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.US Declaration of Independence
The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man and without this all other education is good for nothing.R. D. Hitchcock
We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - Your ideal of what you long to attain - The ideal of health, efficiency, success.Orison Swett Marden
I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.Carl Jung
Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self - Governing people.Woodrow Wilson
The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself - Always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary monetary matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.William Cobbett
Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he Who finds himself, loses his misery.Matthew Arnold
Never feel self - Pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.Millicent Fenwick
Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
When he stood up, it was a very complicated motion. If the deck chairs on the Ship to the Sea of Night had opened up, they would have done so like that. It was like he was unfolding himself forever.Neil Gaiman, Good Omens
Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors, concern for the great unsolved problems of the organization of labor and the distribution of goods - - In order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.Albert Einstein
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.Marcus Aurelius
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it. A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.Tom Blai
Friends are relatives you make for yourself.Eustache Descamps
I wish everybody would have to have an electric thing implanted in our heads that gave us a shock whenever we did something to disobey the president. Then somehow I get myself elected president.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
My business is not to remake myself, But make the absolute best of what God made.Robert Browning
An educated man... is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.Alan Simpson
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 opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.Jane Wyman
Defining consultancy is a bit like defining the upper class every possible candidate draws the line just below himself.John Peet
For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the breast, And the heart must pause for breath, And love itself have rest.Lord Byron
Life is not meaningful to us unless serving an end beyond itself, unless it is of value to someone else.Abraham J. Herschel
We must not just be in the world and above the world, but also of the world. To love it for what it is... is the only task. Avoid it and you are lost. Loose yourself in it, and you are free.Henry Miller, in a letter to Lawrence Durrell
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.Robert Louis Stevenson
You grow up the day you have your first real laugh - - At yourself.Ethel Barrymoore
The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect he becomes an adolescent the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult the day he forgives himself he becomes wise.Alden Nowlan
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.Alan Watts
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery; none but ourselves can free our minds.Bob Marley
