Self Quotes

Matthew arnold - resolve to be thyself; and know, that he who...
My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self - Defense.
Fred Allen
The soul who meditates on the Self is content to serve the Self and rests satisfied within the Self there remains nothing more for him to accomplish.
Bhagavad Gita
A friend is a second self.
Aristotle
Sir robert hutchison - vegetarianism is harmless enough, although it is...
The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.
Jane Wyman
Kurt vonnegut, jr. - laughter and tears are both responses to...
A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service.
Georges Pomidou
One must really have suffered oneself to help others.
Mother Theresa
When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.
Michel de Montaigne
Never feel self - Pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
Millicent Fenwick
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
Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all, and if thee continually talks of thyself as being old, thee may perhaps bring on some of the infirmities of age. At least I would not risk it if I were thee.
Hannah Whitall Smith, 1907
You must be willing to protect yourself and what you cherish, no matter what the cost.
Christopher Paolini, Author of Eragon and Eldest. Quote from Eragon.
We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.
Lloyd Alexande
If the programmer can simulate a construct faster then the compiler can implement the construct itself, then the compiler writer has blown it badly.
Guy L. Steele Jr., Tartan Laboratories
Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
Washington Irving
He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
Samuel Foote
Think to yourself that every day is your last the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.
Horace
Self - Denial is not a virtue it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
George Bernard Shaw
Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.
Robert F. Bennett
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert Camus
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.
Ann Landers
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
Baltasar Gracian
Believe in something larger than yourself.
Barbara Bush
As the moon retaineth her nature, though darkness spread itself before her face as a curtain, so the Soul remaineth perfect even in the bosom of the fool.
Akhenaton
There is always someone worse off than yourself.
Aesop
The wise should surrender speech in mind, mind in the knowing self, the knowing self in the Spirit of the universe, and the Spirit of the universe in the Spirit of peace.
Maitri Upanishads
More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.
Uta Hagan
I count him braver who conquers his desires than him who conquers his enemies for the hardest victort is the victory over self.
Aristotle
We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly... spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.
Susan Taylo
To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself.
Henry Miller, The Colossus of Maroussi
On the touchstone of misfortune a man discovers the strength of understanding and of spirit in kinsmen, wife, servants, and himself.
The Hitopadesa
Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God is himself mad.
R. D. Laing
In the choice of a horse and a wife, a man must please himself, ignoring the opinion and advice of friends.
George John Whyte - Melville
What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self - Conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.
Epictetus, Discourses
The sinners sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book nine
You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu