Self Quotes

Pierre corneille - he who allows himself to be insulted, deserves to...
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
Publilius Syrus
Have no friends not equal to yourself.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Where there are no tigers, a wildcat is very self - Important.
Korean Prove
As I see it, every day you do one of two things build health or produce disease in yourself.
Adelle Davis
If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self - Respect will you compel others to respect you.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
John mitchell mason - judge thyself with the judgment of sincerity, and...
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
Amy Lowell
I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Economy.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
Will Rogers
Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary monetary matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.
William Cobbett
Do not try to fight a lion if you are not one yourself.
African Prove
The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing.
R. D. Hitchcock
Energy is that amazing feeling that comes to life inside of you when you? re happy and believe in yourself.
Richard Simmons
It is a base thing to look to others for your defense instead of depending upon yourself. That defense alone is effectual, sure, and durable which depends upon yourself and your own valor.
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and archive mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement, against that past.
George Steine
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self - Restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Theodore Roosevelt
And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheefully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait... And as to you, Life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.
Walt Whitman
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.
Albert Einstein
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.
Aldous Huxley
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
Pope John Paul II
In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.
Marechal Ferdinand Foch
Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self - Praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.
Arnold Bennett
When money is seen as a solution for every problem, money itself becomes the problem.
Richard Needham
He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires and fears is more than a King.
John Milton
Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.
Michael Masser and Linda Creed
We hold these truths to be self - Evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
US Declaration of Independence
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
Rainer Maria Rilke
By constant self - Discipline and self - Control you can develop greatness of characte.
Grenville Kleise
If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath - Breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.
Thomas De Quincey, Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts - 1827
Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
Mencius, Works
You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself.
Harry Firestone
If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
Confucius
What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense, we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.
Anna Jameson
Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.
Henry David Thoreau
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
Truman Capote
The world is full of fools and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking - Glass.
Nicolas Boileau
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
Brenda Ueland
Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself.
American Indian Prove