Self Quotes

Are you bored with life Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Dale Carnegie

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

Charles Peguy

When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.

Oscar Wilde, Jack from The Importance of Being Earnest

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.

Pythagorus

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

Niels Boh

Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self - Made laws.

Sir Richard Francis Burton

If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self - Interest, you can have practically anything you go after.

Napoleon Hill

He who ignores discipline despises himself, but whoever heeds correction gains understanding.

Proverbs 1532 Bible

There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Where self - Interest is suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control that dries up the wellspring of initiative and creativity.

Pope John Paul II

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

Christmas - - That magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance - - A day in which we think of everything we have ever loved.

Augusta E. Rundell

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self - Respect.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations

There is nothing remarkable about it, all one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.

J. S. Bach

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.

Cynthia Heimel

Educate your children to self - Control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.

Daniel Webste

We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - Your ideal of what you long to attain - The ideal of health, efficiency, success.

Orison Swett Marden

You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.

Plato, Dialogues, Theatetus

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

Cyril Connolly

Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self - Respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.

Thomas Huxley

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

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity.

Charles Caleb Colton

A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the faade of his appearance.

Jean Iris Murdoch

Ful wys is he that can himselven knowe Very wise is he that can know himself.

Geoffrey Chauce

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

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.

Lord Tennyson

None of you truly believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.

Muhammad

The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.

Garth Brooks, Country Music

Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self - Righteous isolation.

John Dewey

Maturity beings to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.

John MacNaughton

Life has. taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.

Alan Stewart Paton

One must really have suffered oneself to help others.

Mother Theresa

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - - And you are the easiest person to fool.

Richard Phillips Feynman

He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.

Richard Bach

This quote reminds me to enjoy each moment of the summer Steep thyself in a bowl of summertime.

Virgil