Self Quotes
You give but little when you give of your posessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.Kahlil Gibran, The Prohpet, 1923
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
Increase your personal power through positive and powerful communication. Recognize and eliminate negative self talk.Caterina Rando
How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.Publilius Syrus
The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents him; it is the lapidary who gives value to the diamond which the peasant has dug up without knowing its value.Abbe Guillaume Raynal
A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the faade of his appearance.Jean Iris Murdoch
Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.John Lancaster Spalding
Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul.Pythagorus
They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.Sir Thomas More, Utopia
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Remember Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - Then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.Endicott Peabody
Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.Douglas MacArthu
It is against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self - Critical?Alan Perlis
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress but I repeat myself.Mark Twain
Never esteem anything as an advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self - Respect.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Self - Love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing people a favor, and vise versa.Dr. Karl A. Menninge
Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a world - wide depression all by myself.Herbert Clark Hoove
Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.Andre Gide
I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Economy.
The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself.James Thurbe
This coffee plunges into the stomach... the mind is aroused, and ideas pour forth like the battalions of the Grand Army on the field of battle.... Memories charge at full gallop... the light cavalry of comparisons deploys itself magnificently; the artillery of logic hurry in with their train of ammunition; flashes of wit pop up like sharp - Shooters.Honore de Balzac
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
The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.Titus Livius
It took me twenty years of studied self - Restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public.George Bernard Shaw
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.Benjamin Franklin
It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self - Improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.Vartan Gregorian
He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.George Herbert
Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - They bear no fruit.Francis Marion
Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.Stephen Leacock, "Nonsense Novels", 1911
Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.Thomas a Kempis
A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more. Nobody is going to win a 5, 000 meter race after running an easy 2 miles. Not with me. If I lose forcing the pace all the way, well, at least I can live with myself.Steve Prefontaine
Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain it only means that he is hopelessly self - Absorbed.Leo C. Rosten
Think highly of yourself, for the world takes you at your own estimate.Author Unknown
An individual cannot know what he is till he has made himself real by action.Unknown
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.Sun - Tzu
There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.Norman Douglas
