Self Quotes

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

Abraham Lincoln

Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle is a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifests itself in the form of a feeling.

Nathaniel Brandon

Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavor. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

Albert Einstein

Talent is like a faucet while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration - A hoax fabricated by poets for their self - Importance.

Jean Anouilh

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke and that the joke is oneself.

Clifton Paul Fadiman

to be yourself in a world that is doing its best, day and night to make you like everybody else - - Is to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight.

E. e. cummings

The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.

Whitney Young

Fortunately, psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself remains a very effective therapist.

Karen Horney

If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me - Nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - But I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.

John Keats, Letter to Fanny Brawne, Feb 1820 - Died 1 year late

He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.

M. C. Esche

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

Charles Peguy

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

Saint Teresa of Avila

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?

Rabbi Hillel

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

Epictetus

A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.

Alec Waugh

In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark.

Nicholson Bake

Conventionality is not morality. Self - Righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

Charlotte Bronte

Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

Sarah Bernhardt

He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.

William Shakespeare

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.

Joseph Campbell

It is the highest form of self - Respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.

Dr. Dale E. Turne

Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself.

Bertrand Russell

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built - In mental disorder which drives him towards self - Destruction.

Arthur Koestle

Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 3

The spirit is the true self.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The whole object of comedy is to be yourself and the closer you get to that, the funnier you will be.

Jerry Seinfeld

Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell.

John Milton, Paradise Lost

If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around you own.

Emerson

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving.

Albert Einstein

First make yourself unpopular, then people will take you seriously.

Konrad Adenauer, 1876 - 1967

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

I demand more of myself than anyone else could ever expect.

Julius Irving

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

H. L. Mencken

The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.

Charles Dudley Warne

Experience does not ever err. It is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your experiments.

Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks

Give not over thy soul to sorrow and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.

Ecclesiastes