Self Quotes
About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.Michael Caine, www. aint - It - Cool - News. com
An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself.Albert Camus
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.Pope John XXIII
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.Paul Tillich
If the thunder is not loud, the peasant forgets to cross himself.Assyrian Prove
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.Marcus Garvey
The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.John Ciardi
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
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.Katherine Mansfield
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.Rebecca West
Think to yourself that every day is your last the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.Horace
One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self - Criticism of a tired mind is suicide.Charles Horton Cooley
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
If I am not for myself, who is for me But if I am for my own self only, what am I, and if not now, when.Rabbi Hillel
A man who works beyond the surface of things, though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way for others and may make even his errors subservient to the cause of truth.Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Inquiry Into The Origins Of The Sublime And Beatiful.
Pascal keeps your hand tied. C gives you enough rope to hang yourself.Anon.
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
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
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.Stanislaus
You cannot teach a man anything. you can only help him to find it for himself.Galileo Galilei
To establish true self - Esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.Denis Watley
It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.Eleanor Roosevelt
Listen within yourself and look into the infinitude of Space and Time. There can be heard the songs of the Constellations, the voices of the Numbers, and the harmonies of the Spheres.The Divine Pymande
Think and feel yourself there! To achieve any aim in life, you need to project the end - Result. Think of the elation, the satisfaction, the joy! Carrying the ecstatic feeling will bring the desired goal into view.Grace Speare
People who are tremendously concerned about their identification, their individuality, their self - Expression, or their sense of humor, always seem to be missing the very things they pursue.Walter Lippmann
You give but little when you give of your posessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.Kahlil Gibran, The Prohpet, 1923
He is not laughed at who laughs at himself first.Thomas Fulle
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.Michel de Montaigne
The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903
Watch for good times to retreat into yourself. Frequently meditate on how good God is to you.Thomas a Kempis, quoted in the LDS Church News 8/20/2005
No man ever listened himself out of a job.Calvin Coolidge
Through the doors of perception Down the corridors of uncertainty Into the room of self doubt Opens the window of opportunity.Unknown
He who despises himself nevertheless esteems himself as a self - Despiser.Friedrich Nietzsche
Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell.John Milton, Paradise Lost
Why not be oneself That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound why try to look like a Pekinese.Edith Sitwell
One must really have suffered oneself to help others.Mother Theresa
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.Epictetus
