Self Quotes

Thomas carlyle - make yourself an honest man, and then you may be...
Insist on yourself; never imitate... Every great man is unique.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.
Alfred North Whitehead
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
Sir Richard F. Burton
Mark twain - i have a prejudice against people who print...
God save me from my friends. I can protect myself from my enemies.
Claude Louis Hector de Villars
Arthur schopenhaue - money is human happiness in the abstract he,...
The giving of love is an education in itself.
Roosevelt, Eleano
May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.
Voltaire
When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
Charles De Gaulle
Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our lives.
Sri Madhava
Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself.
Ralph Waldo Trine
If you have a brain in your head and feet in your shoes, you can steer youeself in any direction you choose.
Dr. Seuss
Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured; try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?
Rabbi Hillel
Your central self is totally untouched By grief, confusion, desperation.
Vernon Howard
I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me instead of looking within myself to see what was there.
Belle Livingstone
Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the insidiousness of self - Praise, and all the ill - Desert of falsehood.
Tyron Edwards
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.
Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
I like less the story that a frog if put in cold water will not bestir itself if that water is heated up slowly and gradually and will in the end let itself be boiled alive, too comfortable with continuity to realize that continuous change at some point may become intolerable and demand a change in behavior.
Charles Handy - The Age of Unreason
He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.
Henry Taylo
The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.
Claude Levi - Strauss
Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
William S. Burroughs
Ahhh. A man with a sharp wit. Someone ought to take it away from him before he cuts himself.
Peter da Silva
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.
Auguste Rodin
To be proud of virtue is to poison oneself with the antidote.
Benjamin Franklin, ?
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
The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of benevolence and love to men.
John Randolph
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
To thine own self be true -; And it must follow as the night the day; Thou canst not be false to any man.
William Shakespeare
Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.
Joel Hawes
Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.
Mary Cholmondeley
Shun praise. Praise leads to self - Delusion. Thy body is not Self, thyself is in itself without a body, and either praise or blame affects it not.
H Hahn Blavatsky
When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.
Confucious
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself and can never be erased.
Alexander Hamilton
When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.
W. H. Auden
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
Anonymous
Where there are no tigers, a wildcat is very self - Important.
Korean Prove
I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.
Meryl Streep
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
Marlene Dietrich