Self Quotes
The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be in love Is to touch with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.Gwendolyn Brooks
The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall to - Day be uppermost.Confucius
A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.Sir Thomas More
A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self - Control is the rule.Ralph Waldo Emerson
May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.Voltaire
Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.Bernard M. Baruch
There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.La Bruyere
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.Ralph Waldo Emerson
This above all to thine own self be true.William Shakespeare
I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself. My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
In jealousy there is more of self - Love, than of love to another.Francois De La Rochefoucauld
I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.Johann Kaspar Lavate
The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.George Washington Allston
Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man.... such a man is a true gentleman.Ralph Waldo Emerson
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.Benjamin Franklin
Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.Johann von Goethe
No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of ther beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems.Anne Rice, "Blood and Gold".
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself lying to others is relatively an exception.Hietzsche
Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.John Ciardi
If you want your eggs hatched, sit on them yourself.Haitian Prove
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
The man who comes with a tale about others has himself an ax to grind.Chinese prove
For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.Charles de Gaulle
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.Gustave Flaubert
The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.Grayson Kirk
Each painting has its own way of evolving... When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.William Baziotes
If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.Marvin Gaye
Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.George Orwell
Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.Nancy Kerrigan
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live.Oscar Wilde
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.Plutarch
You grow up the day you have your first real laugh - - At yourself.Ethel Barrymoore
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - - Great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.Jim Rohn
Every job is a self - Portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence.Commitment To Excellence
Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.John Sturart Mill, Defence of Hedonism
