Self Quotes

Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee.
Thomas Fulle
John kenneth galbraith - the salary of the chief executive of the large...
Faith sullivan, the cape ann, 1988 - she had learned the self - deprecating ways of...
An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself.
Albert Camus
Do you know what a pessimist is? A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
George Bernard Shaw, An Unsocial Socialist (1887) ch. 5
Your mental attitude is someting you can control outright and you must use self - Discipline until you create a Positive Mental Attitude - - Your mental attitude attracts to you everything that makes you what you are.
Napolean Hill
Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.
Robert Bolt
By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self - Denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?
Jackie Mason
My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.
Cary Grant
No book has yet been written in praise of a woman who let her husband and children starve or suffer while she invented even the most useful things, or wrote books, or expressed herself in art, or evolved philosophic systems.
Anna Garlin Spence
It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest; better to lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune.
Samuel Smiles
Practice yourself what you preach.
Titus Maccius Plautus, Asinaria
Heraclitus, on the universe - nature is wont to hide herself....
The vain man is generally a doubter. It is Newton who sees himself as child on the sea shore, and his discoveries in the colored shell.
Willmott
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Albert Camus
Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.
Horace, Epistles
What is the first business of one who practices philosophy To get rid of self - Conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.
Epictetus
I know all except myself.
Francois Villon, Ballade des Menus Propres
I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.
Sylvia Plath
The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.
Alvin Toffle
I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
Susan B. Anthony
Self - Respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.
John Herschel
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self - Distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.
Amos Bronson Alcott
But respect yourself most of all.
Golden verses of the Pythagoreans
A pessimist thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
George Bernard Shaw
He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Albert Einstein
Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.
Dr. David M. Burns
Christmas - - That magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance - - A day in which we think of everything we have ever loved.
Augusta E. Rundell
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education must provide the opportunities for self - Fulfillment it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
Noam Chomsky
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
Woodrow Wilson
Authentic Christianity never destroys what is good. It makes it grow, transfigures it, and enriches itself from it.
Claire Huchet Bishop
Let us forever forget that every station in life is necessarily that each deserves our respect; that not the station itself; but the worthy fulfillment of its duties does honor the man.
Mary Lyon
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
When your work speaks for itself, dont interrupt.
Henry J. Kaise
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
Saint Teresa of Avila
I have found it difficult to endear myself to those who could best positively affect the quality of my life.
Eli Khamarov
He who is calm disturbs neither himself nor others.
Epicurus
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - - That is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
James Thurbe