Self Quotes
Whoever despises himself still respects himself as one who despises.Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil aphorism 78
Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.Jimmy Carte
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self - Restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.Theodore Roosevelt
If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me - Nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - But I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.John Keats, Letter to Fanny Brawne, Feb 1820 - Died 1 year late
The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.Jane Wagne
The root of fear is the death of yourself or someone you care about, but this will inevitably happen since we are only mortal, so why fea.Unknown
An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.Samuel Smiles
Frost You may wake up one day and find yourself extinct.Blade
The only thing to fear is fear itself.Franklin D. Roosevelt
The power of one is above all things The power to believe in yourself Often well beyond any latent ability previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete, The body is simply the means it uses.Bryce Courtenay
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.Foster C. McClellan
Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial.Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Sometimes you have to play for a long time to be able to play like yourself.Miles Davis
In order to preserve your self - Respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.Robert Byrne
He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him if stronger, spare thyself.William Shakespeare
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.Sir Francis Bacon
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
Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.Evelyn Underhill
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.Og Mandino
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.Charles De Gaulle
Love is our response to our highest values. Love is self - Enjoyment. The noblest love is born out of admiration of another? s values.Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings essential to success.John McDonald
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.Samuel Johnson
He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.William Shakespeare
The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.Claude Levi - Strauss
He wrapped himself in quotations - As a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.Rudyard Kipling
To understand is to forgive, even oneself.Alexander Chase
I have great faith in fools - - Self confidence my friends call it.Edgar Allan Poe
Above all things, reverence yourself.Pythagoras
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
Everyone is in business for himself, for he is selling his services, labor or ideas. Until one realizes that this is true he will not take conscious charge of his life and will always be looking outside himself for guidance.Sidney Madwed
Ful wys is he that can himselven knowe Very wise is he that can know himself.Geoffrey Chauce
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.George Bernard Shaw
Each bird loves to hear himself sing.Arapaho Prove
To love oneself is the beginning of a life - Long romance.Oscar Wilde
Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to J. M. Cutts, October 26, 1863
Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self - Respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.Thomas Huxley
