Self Quotes
I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.Albert Camus
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
Each painting has its own way of evolving... When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.William Baziotes
We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands upon himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.Jose Ortega y Gasset
Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life, it is life itself.Henry Havelock Ellis
The more you talk to yourself, the more apt you are to lie.Author Unknown
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
A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.Alec Waugh
He that thinks himself the wisest is generally the least so.C. C. Colton
Remember! Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - Then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.Endicott Peabody
It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.Betty Friedan
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.Sir Winston Churchill
America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.George Herbert Walker Bush
The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903
If you had it all to do over, would you fall in love with yourself again?Author Unknown
To handle yourself, use your head To handle others, use your heart.Roosevelt, Eleano
Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.Joel Hawes
Happy is he who can give himself up.Naguib Mahfouz
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...Trieu Thi Trinh
Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.John Stuart Mill
No important institution is ever merely what the law makes it. It accumulates about itself traditions, conventions, ways of behaviour, which are not less formidable in their influence.Harold Laki
But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to few on this Earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to withstand. The brilliant Costaguanaro of the boulevards had died from solitude and want of faith in himself and others.Joseph Conrad, Nostromo (on the death of Decoud)
Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self - Gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.Helen Kelle
If you seek yourself,... you rob the lens of its transparency.... You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means.Dag Hammarskjld
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you start to doubt yourself, the real world will eat you alive.Henry Rollins, From his song "Shine".
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.Lucille Ball
Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.John Sturart Mill, Defence of Hedonism
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.Cynthia Ozick
Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.William Shakespeare
You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.John Ruskin
Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.Cicero
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
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".
Do whatever comes your way as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people and other things that are interesting. Put a good deal of thought into happiness that you are able to give.Roosevelt, Eleano
