Self Quotes

The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear.

Felix Adle

I count him braver who conquers his desires than him who conquers his enemies for the hardest victort is the victory over self.

Aristotle

A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.

George Bernard Shaw

He is not laughed at who laughs at himself first.

Thomas Fulle

The mirror never sees itself. The reflection never is itself.

J. Gregory Keyes, "Babylon 5: Dark Genesis: The Birth of the Psi Corps".

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong - Doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.

Cicero

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

H. L. Mencken

To love oneself is the beginning of a life - Long romance.

Oscar Wilde

I was never less alone than while by myself.

Edward Lawrence Gibson

Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously; and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.

Booth Tarkington

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

Samuel Smiles

If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself.

Horace

The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self - Respect, dignity, integrity, and self - Esteem.

Dr. Laura Schlessinge

No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

J. K. Rowling

Graham See what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles Or do you believe that people just get lucky Or, look at the question this way Is it possible that there are no coincidences.

Signs

Honesty rare as a man without self - Pity, kinders as large and plain as a prairie wind.

Stephen Vincent Benet

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

Abraham Lincoln

Let a man strive to purify his thoughts. What a man thinketh, that is he this is the eternal mystery. Dwelling within himself with thoughts serene, he will obtain imperishable happiness.

Maitri Upanishads

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

There is a certain impertinance in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.

Anatole France

When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.

Edith Hamilton

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.

Aldous Huxley

Life is not meaningful to us unless serving an end beyond itself, unless it is of value to someone else.

Abraham J. Herschel

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

Arnold Toynbee

It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you can make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost....

Richard Bach

I have found it difficult to endear myself to those who could best positively affect the quality of my life.

Eli Khamarov

It is regrettable that, among the Rights of Man, the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten.

Charles Baudelaire

The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.

Alan Ashley - Pitt

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self - Respect.

Theodore Parke

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but that mark of a fake messiah.

Richard Bach

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Kahlil Gibran

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ

There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.

Hermann Hesse

Self - Conceit may lead to self - Destruction.

Aesop, The Frog and the Ox

Happy is he who can give himself up.

Naguib Mahfouz