Self Quotes
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.Sir Francis Bacon
Everyone is in business for himself, for he is selling his services, labor or ideas. Until one realizes that this is true he will not take conscious charge of his life and will always be looking outside himself for guidance.Sidney Madwed
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.H. L. Mencken
A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more. Nobody is going to win a 5, 000 meter race after running an easy 2 miles. Not with me. If I lose forcing the pace all the way, well, at least I can live with myself.Steve Prefontaine
The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing.R. D. Hitchcock
If heaven is going to be full of people like Hardie, well, the Almighty can have them to himself.Sir Winston Churchill
He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.Thomas Paine
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.Kahlil Gibran
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.Spanish Prove
I celebrate myself, and sing myself.Walt Whitman, Song of Myself, 1855
No man is free who is not master of himself.Epictetus
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
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
Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts.Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics
Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.Saint Augustine
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.Andrew Carnegie
Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.Johann Georg von Zimmermann
It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.Queen Christina, of Sweden, 1629 - 1689
I was like a boy playing on the sea - Shore, and diverting myself 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
What ought a man to be Well, my short answer is himself.Henrik Ibsen
Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber.Ugo Betti
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness to an opponent, tolerance to a friend, your heart to your child, a good example to a father, deference to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you to yourself, respect to all men, charity.Francis Maitland Balfou
A self - Balancing, 28 - Jointed adaptor - Based biped; an electro - Chemical reduction plant, integral with segregated stowages of special energy extracts in storage batteries, for subsequent actuation of thousands of hydraulic and pneumatic pumps, with motors attached; 62, 000 miles of capillaries....R. Buckminster Fulle
The way to final freedom is within thy self.The Book of the Golden Precepts
He who allows himself to be insulted, deserves to be.Pierre Corneille
This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.Voltaire
The reason of a resolution is more to be considered than the resolution itself.Sir John Holt
When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.Albert Einstein, The World as I See It.
If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.Saint Augustine
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion... I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.James Thurber, in Edward R. Murrow television interview
The root of fear is the death of yourself or someone you care about, but this will inevitably happen since we are only mortal, so why fea.Unknown
It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.Graham Greene, The Ministry of Fea
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
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.William Shenstone
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
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 Wolfgang von Goethe
