Self Quotes
Self - Pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.Helen Kelle
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
Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.G. C. Lichtenberg
To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.Simone de Beauvoi
The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.Blaine Lee
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
Would you hurt a man keenest, strike at his self - Love.Lewis Lew Wallace
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man - Given. Be grateful. Conceit is self - Given. Be careful.John Wooden
We believe that an artist, in order to be true to himself and his work, must be a free man.John F. Kennedy, Introducing Pablo Casals at a White House dinner, November 1961, at which he performed publicly for the first t
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
A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
When the opponent expand, I contract, When he contracts, I expand, And when there is an opportunity, I do not hit - - It hits all by itself.Bruce Lee
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.Benjamin Disraeli
Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.Oprah Winfrey
Do you know what a pessimist is? A person who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself and hates them for it.George Bernard Shaw
It was when Lucifer first congratulated himself upon his angelic behavior that he became the tool of evil.Dag Hammarskjld
For myself I am an optimist - - It does not seem to be much use being anything else.Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self - Direction, and for self - Initiated learning.Carl R. Rogers
You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.Ethel Barrymore
But true love is a durable fire In the mind ever burning Never sick, never old, never dead From itself never turning.Sir Walter Raleigh
None of you truly believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.Muhammad
Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously; and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.Booth Tarkington
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness to an opponent, tolerance to a friend, your heart to your child, a good example to a father, deference to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you to yourself, respect to all men, charity.Francis Maitland Balfou
The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self - Seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.Ronald Reagan
Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.Robert Louis Stevenson
A competent and self - Confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.Robert Anson Heinlein
Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.Martin Luther King Jr.
A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.Vince Lombardi
Know thyself.Thales, (The Seven Sages) from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, And know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, No coincidences, All events are blessings given to us to learn from.Elizabeth Kubler - Ross
Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.Mortimer Adle
You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose.Jo Coudert, "Advice From A Failure".
Ful wys is he that can himselven knowe Very wise is he that can know himself.Geoffrey Chauce
Many politicians lay it down as a self - Evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.Lord Macaulay
Nothing feeds upon itself as liberality does.Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince (1513)
