Self Quotes
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
We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly... spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.Susan Taylo
The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of this world is not to have and to hold but to give and serve. There can be no other meaning.Sir Wilfred T. Grenfell
The sage wears clothes of coarse cloth but carries jewels in his bosom He knows himself but does not display himself He loves himself but does not hold himself in high esteem.Lao Tzu
Gradualness, gradualness, and gradualness. From the very beginning of your work, school yourself to severe gradualness in the accumulation of knowledge.Ivon Petrovich Pavlov
As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self - Destroying.Arthur C. Clarke
Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.Jose Ortega y Gasset
Formal education will earn you a living, self - Education make you a fortune.Unknown
True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.Voltaire
Look at the bow in the cloud, in the very rain itself. That is a sign that the sun, though you cannot see it, is shining still - - That up above beyond the cloud is still sunlight and warmth and cloudless blue sky.Charles Kingsley
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Energy is that amazing feeling that comes to life inside of you when you? re happy and believe in yourself.Richard Simmons
Thinking The talking of the soul with itself.Plato
Knowing others is intelligence knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.Lao Tzu
As I see it, every day you do one of two things build health or produce disease in yourself.Adelle Davis
He had a heart that could have held the empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar.Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera
Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Self - Pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.John W. Gardne
He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.Lao Tzu
I believe this nation should commit itself, to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.John F. Kennedy, in a speech on May 25, 1961
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self - Interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self - Love, and never talk to them of our own neccessities but of their advantages.Adam Smith
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
He who falls in love with himself, will have no rivals.Ben Franklin
Self - Denial is not a virtue it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.George Bernard Shaw
If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self - Respect will you compel others to respect you.Fyodor Dostoevsky
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) Valley of Fear, 1915
Live each season as it passes breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.Henry David Thoreau
To linger in the observation of things other than the self implies a profound conviction of their worth.Charles - Damian Boulogne
The sinners sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action.Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book nine
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.Robert Anson Heinlein
There are at least two kinds of cowards. One kind always lives with himself, afraid to face the world. The other kind lives with the world, afraid to face himself.Roscoe Snowden
Resolve to be thyself and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.Matthew Arnold
To expect defeat is nine - Tenths of defeat itself.Francis Crawford
It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.Queen Christina, of Sweden, 1629 - 1689
He who conquers others is strong He who conquers himself is mighty.Lao Tzu
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
Most powerful is he who has himself in his power.Seneca
