Self Quotes

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

Michel de Montaigne

A human being is an animal suspended in webs of significance which he himself has spun.

Clifford Geertz, "Cultural Anthropology" by Nanda

The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas and the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., (dissent, Abrams v. United States, 1919)

I am a poet. I lock myself in my room with a type writer so I can talk in terms of the world that has put me here.

Eric Pio

Never esteem anything as an advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self - Respect.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

I have found it difficult to endear myself to those who could best positively affect the quality of my life.

Eli Khamarov

If you feel yourself falling, let go and glide.

Steffen Francisco

To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.

Hermann Hesse

A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself. Minquass.

American Indian Prove

What is life It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

Crowfoot

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

Anna Freud

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

Josh Billings

Sit quiety, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.

Zen Prove

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

Thomas Jefferson

When you cannot get a compliment any other way pay yourself one.

Mark Twain

It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always this occupation ought to last as long as life.

Queen Christina

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ

If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self - Interest, you can have practically anything you go after.

Napoleon Hill

I like less the story that a frog if put in cold water will not bestir itself if that water is heated up slowly and gradually and will in the end let itself be boiled alive, too comfortable with continuity to realize that continuous change at some point may become intolerable and demand a change in behavior.

Charles Handy - The Age of Unreason

I have a cat named Trash. In the current political climate it would seem that if I were trying to sell him at least to a Computer Scientist, I would not stress that he is gentle to humans and is self - Sufficient, living mostly on field mice. Rather, I would argue that he is object - Oriented.

Roger King

Watch for good times to retreat into yourself. Frequently meditate on how good God is to you.

Thomas a Kempis, quoted in the LDS Church News 8/20/2005

The tragic mistake of so many in the environmentalist movement is the belief that the rest of the world can afford to hold itself to our expensive green standards.

Jonathan Berry

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

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the governing of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address

Where talent is a dwarf, self - Esteem is a giant.

J. Petit - Senn

As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.

Leonardo DaVinci

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.

Andrew Carnegie

Working with children with autism has provided me with an opportunity to see the world in a different way. I see them strive to overcome obstacles and persevere, and learn to persevere myself. They are my inspiration.

Clay Aiken

There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers - By see only a wisp of smoke.

Vincent Van Gogh

When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.

Antoine De Saint - Exupery

Friendship with oneself is all - Important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Eleanor Roosevelt

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self - Discipline with all of them came first.

Harry S Truman

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

Mary Daly

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

A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.

Robert Burton