Self Quotes
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists".
Becoming a star may not be your destiny, but being the best you can be is a goal that you can set for yourself.Brian Lindsay
Knowledge and personality make doubt possible, but knowledge is also the cure of doubt; and when we get a full and adequate sense of personality we are lifted into a region where doubt is almost impossible, for no man can know himself as he is, and all fullness of his nature, without also knowing God.T. T. Munge
Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self - Love.Francois de Fenelon
President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.Ralph Nade
He who knows others is wise; He who know himself is enlightened.Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.Simone Weil
A threat is basically a means for establishing a bargaining position by inducing fear in the subject. When a threat is used, it should always be implied that the subject himself is to blame by using words such as You leave me no other choice but to...CIA Manual
Blessed are they who heal you of self - Despisings. Of all services which can be done to man, I know of none more precious.William Hale White
Ahhh. A man with a sharp wit. Someone ought to take it away from him before he cuts himself.Peter da Silva
There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases; it is the easiest thing of all to deceive one? s self.Demosthenes, Olynthiac
Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.Mary Hemingway
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.George Bernard Shaw
Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.Agatha Christie
You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice.Ursula Le Guin
No man is wise enough by himself.Titus Maccius Plautus, Miles Gloriosus
If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse - As a man shoots himself.H. L. Mencken
The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.Robert Ingersoll
Johnson himself turned out to be so many different characters he could have populated all of War and Peace and still had a few people left over.Herbert Mitgang
Maturity beings to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.John MacNaughton
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of Mankind is Man.Alexander Pope
The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun - Illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?Edwin Markham
If I ever reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there first, to meet some I had not thought to see there second, to miss some I had expected to see there and third, the greatest wonder of all, to find myself there.John Newton
Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.Samuel Adams
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.Samuel Johnson
But words came halting forth, wanting Inventions stayInvention, Natures child, fled step - Dame Studys blows... Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite, Fool, said my Muse to me look in thy heart and write.Sir Philip Sidney
If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.John Cage
God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.Albert Einstein
A man who works beyond the surface of things, though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way for others and may make even his errors subservient to the cause of truth.Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Inquiry Into The Origins Of The Sublime And Beatiful.
Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.Lou Dorfsman
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
But respect yourself most of all.Golden verses of the Pythagoreans
He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.Niccolo Machiavelli
Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - They bear no fruit.Francis Marion
More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.Daniel J. Boorstin
One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.Blaise Pascal
It is impossible to better yourself if you do not know what it means to be better.Unknown
