Self Quotes
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.Friedrich Nietzsche
The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.Pauline Kael
Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence. It also allows one to risk that marriage.Gloria Steinem
Popularity comes from allowing yourself to be bored by people while pretending to enjoy it.Karol Newlin
Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.Pearl S. Buck
The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.James Arthur Baldwin
Honesty rare as a man without self - Pity, kinders as large and plain as a prairie wind.Stephen Vincent Benet
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".
There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers - By see only a wisp of smoke.Vincent Van Gogh
There is no limit to stupidity. Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity.Gene Wolfe
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, this is no other life but this.Henry David Thoreau
First say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have to do.Epictetus
Knowledge and personality make doubt possible, but knowledge is also the cure of doubt; and when we get a full and adequate sense of personality we are lifted into a region where doubt is almost impossible, for no man can know himself as he is, and all fullness of his nature, without also knowing God.T. T. Munge
Creation is a better means of self - Expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.Vida D. Scudde
The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.David Mamet
We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - - For no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self - Love.William Hazlitt
Christ will remain a priest and king though He was never consecrated by any papist bishop or greased by any of those shavelings but he was ordained and consecrated by God Himself, and by Him anointed.Martin Luthe
In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark.Nicholson Bake
It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out.Judith Rossne
If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.Orison Swett Marden
When the opponent expand, I contract, When he contracts, I expand, And when there is an opportunity, I do not hit - - It hits all by itself.Bruce Lee
Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.Joseph Addison
Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.Anthony Robbins
For want of self - Restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross - Grained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self - Control.Smiles
Learning makes a man fit company for himself.Thomas Fulle
What the superior man seeks is in himself what the small man seeks is in others.Confucius
Watch for good times to retreat into yourself. Frequently meditate on how good God is to you.Thomas a Kempis, quoted in the LDS Church News 8/20/2005
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
The difficult child is the child who is unhappy. He is at war with himself; and in consequence, he is at war with the world.A. S. Neill, Summerhill
In jealousy there is more of self - Love, than of love to another.Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself".
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
God, I offer myself to Thee, to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy power, Thy love and Thy way of life. May I do Thy will always. Amen.Alcoholics Anonymous Praye
Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself.American Indian Prove
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
Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.Chinese Prove
