Self Quotes

Mark twain - i have a prejudice against people who print...
Woodrow wilson - you are not here merely to make a living. you are...
Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God is himself mad.
R. D. Laing
Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.
William Shakespeare, "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 2 scene 1
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself First, what could I do Second, what could I read And third, who could I ask.
Jim Rohn
The self - Controlled soul, who moves amongst sense objects, free from either attachment or repulsion, he wins eternal Peace.
Bhagavad Gita
Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up.
Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, February 2003
It is easy to bring others down to your level, Instead of bringing yourself up to their level, But it is never ever right.
Unknown
As soon as we left the ground I knew I myself had to fly!
Amelia Earhart
I said to myself that growing up really means slowing down.
Siri Hustvedt, What I Loved, pg. 336
Becoming a star may not be your destiny, but being the best you can be is a goal that you can set for yourself.
Brian Lindsay
Lord chesterfield - choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not...
You are the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. 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 Hammarskjold
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
Benjamin Franklin
I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better then the bad.
Seneca
Ahhh. A man with a sharp wit. Someone ought to take it away from him before he cuts himself.
Peter da Silva
The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.
John Updike
No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.
Saint John Chrysostom, Letter to Olympia
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on.
Winston Churchill, Quoted in: Irving Klotz, Bending perception, a book review, Nature, 1996, Volume 379, p 412
Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
Welsh Prove
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - In firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Seneca
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full - On metamorphosis.
Martha Beck, O Magazine, Growing Wings, January 2004
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
Galileo Galilei
On the touchstone of misfortune a man discovers the strength of understanding and of spirit in kinsmen, wife, servants, and himself.
The Hitopadesa
Insist on yourself never imitate... Every great man is unique.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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)
Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.
Paul Tillich
The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.
Stephen Nachmanovitch
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Just what is it that America stands for If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self - Governing people.
Woodrow Wilson
He who knows others is wise; He who know himself is enlightened.
Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.
Thomas Jefferson
He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
Charles Peguy
Do not measure your loss by itself if you do, it will seem intolerable but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.
Saint Basil
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
G. K. Chesterton
I look at my myself and see a stone, I look at my friends and see gold, But I look at you, and see a gem.
Unknown
What makes the difference between a Nation that is truly great and one that is merely rich and powerful It is the simple things that make the difference. Honesty, knowing right from wrong, openness, self - Respect, and the courage of conviction.
David L Boren
He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
Kahlil Gibran