Self Quotes
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
A friend is somebody you want to be around when you feel like being by yourself.Barbara Burrow
What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.Igor Stravinski
What the superior man seeks is in himself what the small man seeks is in others.Confucius
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.Frederick Douglas
When solving a panic you must first ask yourself what you were doing that could possibly frighten an operating system.Peter van der Linden
The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.Cicero
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself".
Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.Thomas Hobbes
He who has injured thee was stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him if stronger, spare thyself.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.C. S. Lewis
The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.W. S. Maugham, Of Human Bondage
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self - Seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.Bible, 1 Corinthians 13: 4 - 7
Friends are relatives you make for yourself.Eustache Descamps
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.Lady Nancy Asto
Give yourself something to work toward - - Constantly.Mary Kay Ash
Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.Chief Seattle
Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you and act accordingly.Thomas Jefferson
Do you know what a pessimist is A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.George Bernard Shaw
The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self - Love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self - Absorption.Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.Aldous Huxley
An educated man... is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.Alan Simpson
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.Sun - Tzu
He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.Benjamin Franklin
He who demands mercy and shows none burns the bridges over which he himself must later pass.Thomas Adams
To establish oneself in the world, one has to do all one can to appear established.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Let no one flatter himself of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.Saint Augustine
I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better then the bad.Seneca
What you keep for yourself, you lose. What you give away, you keep forever.Axel Monthe
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.Rainer Maria Rilke
To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.David Viscott
He who is calm disturbs neither himself nor others.Epicurus
Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You cannot get there by bus, only by hard work, risking and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you will discover will be wonderful; yourself.Alan Alda
Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself.Ralph Waldo Trine
If an artist is not able to commit himself totally to his art, how can he expect the world to do so.Unknown
There is an atmosphere of well - Sounding oratory that likes to attach itself to dress clothes. Away with it.Albert Einstein
