Self Quotes

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
J. Krishnamarti
Imam ali, peak of eloquence (nahjul balagha) - a greedy man will always find himself in the...
Peter mere latham - fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly...
A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.
Henry Ward Beeche
He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.
George Herbert
He who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself.
John Milton
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Life itself is neither good nor evil, but only a place for good and evil.
Marcus Aelius Aurelius
There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know these things.
Hal Borland
The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.
Garth Brooks, Country Music
But he that is the greatest among you shall be your servant. And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abused and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.
Matthew 2311, 12 Bible
That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust.
Gustave Flaubert, 1, 911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said
The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
Henry Mille
Woody harrelson - my main hope for myself is to be where i am....
In order to preserve your self - Respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.
Robert Byrne
Respect yourself most of all.
Pythagorus
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A crisis does not always appear to a policymaker as a series of dramatic events. Usually it imposes itself as an exhausting agenda of petty chores demanding both concentration and endurance.
Henry Kissinger, Years of Upheaval
Fortunately psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
Karen Horney
Of all afflictions, the worst is self - Contempt.
Berthold Auerbach
That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.
Thomas Jefferson
Think highly of yourself, for the world takes you at your own estimate.
Author Unknown
Self - Esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self - Esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
Bette Midle
It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.
Salvador Dali
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self - Gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Kelle
Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
Iris Murdoch
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde
First say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have to do.
Epictetus
You have to expect things of yourself before you do them.
Michael Jordan
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.
Bokonon
Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good do good. Be kind be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.
Swami Sivanada
To be proud of virtue is to poison oneself with the antidote.
Benjamin Franklin, ?
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Thomas Jefferson
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.
Thomas Jefferson
Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
Heraclitus
Thinking The talking of the soul with itself.
Plato
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
Albert Einstein
Any ordinary man can... surround himself with two thousand books... and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.
Augustine Birrell