Self Quotes
Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth.Edgar Watson Howe
Always be a first - Rate version of yourself, instead of a second - Rate version of someone else.Judy Garland
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
And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheefully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait... And as to you, Life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.Walt Whitman
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
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.Andre Maurois
One of the self - Authenticating truths which we come at last to acknowledge is this strange fact that we know that for the evil in our lives we ourselves are responsible, but for the good God alone deserves the praise.John L. Casteel
An ambassador is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country; a news - writer is a man without virtue who lies at home for himself.Sir Henry Wotton, "Reliquae Wottonianae".
In summer, the song sings itself.William Carlos Williams
I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.Walt Whitman
I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know that there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.Albert Camus
I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better then the bad.Seneca
I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God.Sufi Prove
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.Anais Nin
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.Saint Teresa of Avila
Experience does not ever err. It is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your experiments.Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks
How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love in order that I may be loved back again, but for the creative joy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at least a little, by the outgoing of love, from enslavement to that most intolerable of master, myself.Bernard Iddings Bell
The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.Mark Twain
To be nobody but yourself, in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.E. E. Cummings
No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead. Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study, and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think.John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self - Restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.Theodore Roosevelt
I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast. After she was pelted with eggs during a walkabout on New Zealand visit.Elizabeth II
Self - Loving is not so vile a sin, my liege, as self - Neglecting.William Shakespeare
Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.Johann von Goethe
I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After - Life spell, And by and by my Soul returned to me, And answered I Myself am Heaven and Hell.Omar Khayym
It is one of those beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.Charles Dudley Warne
To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself.Henry Miller, The Colossus of Maroussi
Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.Lao Tzu
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.Nathaniel Hawthorne
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
Mortification from a self - Strength, carried on by ways of self - Invention, unto the end of a self - Righteousness, is the soul and substnace of all false religion in the world.John Owen
Where there is a will there is a way, is an old and true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement. To think we are able, is almost to be so - To determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.Samuel Smiles
Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it.George Santayana, Winds of Doctrine (1913) ch. 4
A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.Jeanne - Marie Roland
More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.Uta Hagan
Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.Sir John Gielgud
Never esteem anything as an advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self - Respect.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
