Self Quotes

The spirit is the true self.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself.

Noam Chomsky, Ruth Anshen, Biography of an Idea (Mt. Kisco, NY: Moyer Bell Limited, 1986), pg. 196

That we can comprehend the little we know already is mindboggling in itself.

Tom Gates

You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it. Better keep yourself clean and bright you are the window through which you must see the world.

Sir Walter Besant

When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself.

Luigi Pirandello

I demand more of myself than anyone else could ever expect.

Julius Irving

A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate.

La Rochefoucauld

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely for science is but one.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It could be said that the AIDS pandemic is a classic own - Goal scored by the human race against itself.

Anne

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Thomas Jefferson

Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.

W. Somerset Maugham

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

Aldous Huxley

It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain and some of our griefs... have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all.

Miguel de Cervantes

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Oscar Wilde

We hold these truths to be self - Evident that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

US Declaration of Independence

I pride myself on the fact that my work has no socially redeeming value.

John Waters

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself.

Michel de Montaigne

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

Of all the communities available to us there is not one I would want to devote myself to, except for the society of the true searchers, which has very few living members at any time.

Albert Einstein

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

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis, Impressions and Comments (1914)

Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.

Dame Edna Everage, In a television interview with Joan Rivers

When you start to doubt yourself, the real world will eat you alive.

Henry Rollins, From his song "Shine".

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

Of all afflictions, the worst is self - Contempt.

Berthold Auerbach

Let us forever forget that every station in life is necessarily that each deserves our respect; that not the station itself; but the worthy fulfillment of its duties does honor the man.

Mary Lyon

When money is seen as a solution for every problem, money itself becomes the problem.

Richard Needham

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

Insist on yourself; never imitate... Every great man is unique.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do you know what a pessimist is A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

George Bernard Shaw

The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do you ever sit down and wonder what is wrong with the world Do you ever ask yourself why it is that Christians seem to have so little influence, why they seem to achieve so little, for all their numbers, in putting the world right To each of those two questions there is ultimately but one answer. It is this we lack the mind of Christ.

J. Arthur Lewis

It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.

Betty Friedan

Love becomes perfect only when it transcends itself - - Becoming One with its object Producing Unity of Being.

Hakim Jami

True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.

Voltaire