Self Quotes

John milton, dr. faustus - the mind is its own place and in itself can make...
Thomas fulle - he is not laughed at who laughs at himself first....
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Dare to be yourself.
Andre Gide
A man, to be greatly good, must magine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and in many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
He who cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself.
George Herbert
Insist on yourself; never imitate... Every great man is unique.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide - Sounding Zeus puts a good mind.
Homer, The Iliad
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Ben Franklin
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)
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
Henry David Thoreau
Dr. - change is the end result of all true learning....
On reflection, one of the things I needed to learn was to allow myself to be loved.
Isha McKenzie - Mavinga
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
Galileo Galilei
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
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
Franz Kafka
It really doesnt matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.
Real Live Preache
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
Agnes Repplie
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 sea shore and diverting himself and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary while the greater ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Ashley Montagu
Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.
Beryl Markham
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - And you are the easiest person to fool.
Richard Feynman, Caltech commencement address, 1974
He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.
Lord Herbert
Do you want to be a power in the world Then be yourself.
Ralph Waldo Trine
The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself... The act of voting is in itself the defining moment.
Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Democracy in America, 1992
A patient man is one who can put up with himself.
Author Unknown
My schoolmates would make love to anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself.
Emo Philips
When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.
Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray
Everyone needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life.
Julia T. Alvarez
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
So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
William Shakespeare
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Albert Einstein
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
Sigmund Freud
He that thinks himself the wisest is generally the least so.
C. C. Colton
When a proud man hears another praised, he feels himself injured.
English Prove
The world itself is the will to power - And nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - And nothing else!
Friedrich Nietzsche, "The Will to Power".
I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there.
Fred Allen
Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured; try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
Titus Livius
Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
Hippocrates, Regimen