Self Quotes
Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 3
Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.James A. Garfield
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.Baltasar Gracian
Fortunately, psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself remains a very effective therapist.Karen Horney
Accuse not nature, she hath done her partDo thou but thine, and be not diffidentOf wisdom, she deserts thee not, if thouDismiss not her, when most thou needest her nigh, By attributing overmuch to thingsLess excellent, as thou thyself perceivest.John Milton
Judge thyself with the judgment of sincerity, and thou will judge others with the judgment of charity.John Mitchell Mason
Do you ever sit down and wonder what is wrong with the world Do you ever ask yourself why it is that Christians seem to have so little influence, why they seem to achieve so little, for all their numbers, in putting the world right To each of those two questions there is ultimately but one answer. It is this we lack the mind of Christ.J. Arthur Lewis
What a searching preacher of self - Command is the varying phenomenon of health.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Malice sucks up the greater part of her own venom, and poisons herself.Michel de Montaigne
Where talent is a dwarf, self - Esteem is a giant.J. Petit - Senn
Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999
The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of this world is not to have and to hold but to give and serve. There can be no other meaning.Sir Wilfred T. Grenfell
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.Henry Ward Beeche
The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.Whitney Young
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.George Bernard Shaw
As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.Leonardo DaVinci
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.Thomas Jefferson
The best leader is the one who has the sense to surround himself with outstanding people and self - Restraint not to meddle with how they do their jobs.Author Unknown
Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.John W. Gardne
It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in the way of treating people with kindness and decency. The point is no that they will then be nice to you. It is that you will feel better about yourself.Robert Solow
It is noble to teach oneself, it is still nobler to teach others.Mark Twain
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.Henry Ward Beeche
When he stood up, it was a very complicated motion. If the deck chairs on the Ship to the Sea of Night had opened up, they would have done so like that. It was like he was unfolding himself forever.Neil Gaiman, Good Omens
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.Woodrow Wilson
One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.Wilfrid Sheed
Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.Hippocrates, Regimen
If the thunder is not loud, the peasant forgets to cross himself.Assyrian Prove
How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.Publilius Syrus
Creation is a better means of self - Expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.Vida D. Scudde
It could be said that the AIDS pandemic is a classic own - Goal scored by the human race against itself.Anne
When your work speaks for itself, dont interrupt.Henry J. Kaise
A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self - Control is the rule.Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are at least two kinds of cowards. One kind always lives with himself, afraid to face the world. The other kind lives with the world, afraid to face himself.Roscoe Snowden
Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself.American Indian Prove
The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.Thomas a Kempis
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.Charlie Chaplin
Loneliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best thing you can do it to know yourself... know what you want.Janet Fitch, "White Oleander".
The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself - Always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
