Self Quotes
More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.Amy Grant
There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self.Demosthenes
No man ought to lay a cross upon himself, or to adopt tribulation, as is done in popedom but if a cross or tribulation come upon him, then let him suffer it patiently, and know that it is good and profitable for him.Martin Luthe
The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.Publilius Syrus
Women with pasts interest men... they hope history will repeat itself.Mae West
The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and pride in self - Reliance. He is led no longer by Davy Crocketts he is led by cheer leaders, press agents, word mongers, uplifters.Henry Louis Mencken
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but that mark of a fake messiah.Richard Bach
Educate your children to self - Control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.Daniel Webste
What makes the difference between a Nation that is truly great and one that is merely rich and powerful It is the simple things that make the difference. Honesty, knowing right from wrong, openness, self - Respect, and the courage of conviction.David L Boren
He who fights monsters should look into it that he himself does not become a monster. When you gaze long into the Abyss, the Abyss also gazes into you.Friedrich Neitzsche
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.George Bernard Shaw
They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.John Morley
Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it repose in Thee.Saint Augustine, The Confessions. Book 1. (The Harvard Classics. 1909? 14, p. 1)
One must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star.Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
God conceals himself from the mind of man, but reveals himself to his heart.African Prove
The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great man were made by his fortune, his enemies by himself, and revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude.C. C. Colton
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.Jalal ud - Din Rumi
Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.Annie Lennox
She had learned the self - Deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and grasping, but her artifices could not always cover the nakedness of her need to excel.Faith Sullivan, The Cape Ann, 1988
No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
Under peaceful conditions the militant man attacks himself.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.John Milton
I do not know what I may appear to the world but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.Isaac Newton
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - Especially when one is right.Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight, very clean. When it arrives it is perfect. It puts itself in our hands. It hopes we learned something from yesterday.Unknown, Epitaph on headstone of actor John Wayne (author unknown)
Self - Confidence is something caught and not taught. And, risk - Running and chance - Taking are the only ways to catch it.Arnold Schwarzenegger
Learn to limit yourself, to content yourself with some definite thing, and some definite work dare to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not and to believe in your own individuality.Henri Frdric Amiel
Man is a make - Believe animal - He is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.William Hazlitt
If your house is on fire, warm yourself by it.Danish prove
Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight. Equilibrium is pragmatic. You have to get everything into proportion. You compensate, rebalance yourself so that you maintain your angle to the world. When the world shifts, you shift.Tom Stoppard
Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.Miguel de Cervantes
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.Sir Richard F. Burton
America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant.Garry Trudeau
There are pauses amidst study, and even pauses of seeming idleness, in which a process goes on which may be likened to the digestion of food. In those seasons of repose, the powers are gathering their strength for new efforts; as land which lies fallow recovers itself for tillage.J. W. Alexande
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.James A. Froude
Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed.Solomon Short
He who despises himself nevertheless esteems himself as a self - Despiser.Friedrich Nietzsche
