Self Quotes

It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Under peaceful conditions the militant man attacks himself.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The pain of a disappointed wish necessarily produces less effect upon the mind if a man has not certainly promised himself success. - De Tranquillitate Animi.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Isaac Newton, From Brewster, Memoirs of Newton (1855)

Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self - Confidence and your self - Doubt.

Kahlil Gibran

No one but a theorist believes his theory; everyone puts faith in a laboratory result but the experimenter himself.

Albert Einstein, quoted in Scientific American, September 2004, page 69

I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of Mankind is Man.

Alexander Pope

But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.

Alfred North Whitehead

Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

Thomas Hobbes

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

My main hope for myself is to be where I am.

Woody Harrelson

Better keep yourself clean and bright you are the window through which you must see the world.

George Bernard Shaw

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

Paul Tillich

He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid. But he said, in substance, to himself that if the earth and the moon were about to clash, many people would doubtless plan to get upon the roofs to witness the collision.

Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage, chapter 8

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Self - Loving is not so vile a sin, my liege, as self - Neglecting.

William Shakespeare

Believe in yourself Have faith in your abilities Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Norman Vincent Peale

In summer, the song sings itself.

William Carlos Williams

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving.

Albert Einstein

Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for beingWhy thou wert there, O rival of the roseI never sought to ask, I never knewBut, in my simple ignorance supposeThe selfsame power that brought me there brought you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to knowledge, has proved potentially dangerous, because it has not been accompanied by equal gains in self - Understanding and self - Discipline.

Lewis Mumford

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

G. C. Lichtenberg

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect he becomes an adolescent the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult the day he forgives himself he becomes wise.

Alden Nowlan

The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of an endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.

Robyn Davidson

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.

Josh Billings

All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self - Evident.

Arthur Schopenhaue

There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.

Norman Douglas

I pride myself on the fact that my work has no socially redeeming value.

John Waters

I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.

Samuel Johnson

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

One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self - Criticism of a tired mind is suicide.

Charles Horton Cooley

He who knows others is wise; He who know himself is enlightened.

Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu

If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives. Do good anyway.

Mother Theresa

God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.

Albert Einstein

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

Lady Nancy Asto