Self Quotes

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God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
C. S. Lewis
I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
Joseph Baretti
That you may retain your self - Respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
William J. H. Boetcke
Formal education will make you a living self - Education will make you a fortune.
Jim Rohn
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
Calvin Coolidge
Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills.
Kahlil Gibran
Do definite good first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.
John Lancaster Spalding
Glory built on selfish principles is shame and guilt.
William Cowpe
He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.
Saint Augustine
The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.
Jacob Bronowski, 1976
Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.
Beryl Markham
There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.
John Dean
The only place you will be accepted is the place you make for yourself.
Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
Franz Kafka
One must not be mean with the affections what is spent of the fund is renewed in the spending itself.
Sigmund Freud
If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.
D. L. Moody
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
Gustave Flaubert
As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found - - In himself.
Erich Frohm
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Anais Nin
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
John Mui
Are you bored with life Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Dale Carnegie
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.
Agatha Christie
He who allows himself to be insulted, deserves to be.
Pierre Corneille
I have never seen a wild thing feel sorry for itself. A little bird will fall dead, frozen from a bough, without ever having felt sorry for itself.
D. H. Lawrence
Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.
Annie Lennox
Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.
Thomas Hobbes
Get into the habit of asking yourself if what you are doing can be handled by someone else.
Author Unknown
Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being.
Blaise Pascal, Pensees(II, 72)
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
Jim Morrison
It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
How anybody dresses is indicative of his self - Concept. If students are dirty and ragged, it indicates they are not interested in tidying up their intellects either.
S Hayakawa
All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself, and never mind the rest.
Beatrix Potte
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me.
Simone de Beauvoi
The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
W. S. Maugham, Of Human Bondage