Self Quotes

Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.

Jimmy Carte

The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.

Oscar Wilde

Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.

John Stuart Mill

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself lying to others is relatively an exception.

Hietzsche

Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being and only suffering teaches him this.

Simone Weil

I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Economy.

Thinking The talking of the soul with itself.

Plato

We can begin by noting that the body prefers to keep itself alive.

John Tierney, Esquire, August 1981

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

Thomas Jefferson

Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.

Kyle Chandle

He alone is wise who can accommodate himself to all contingencies of life; but the fool contends, and struggling, like a swimmer, against the stream.

Latin

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

Anna Freud

I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

Without absolutes revealed from without by God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas about manners, justice and right and wrong, issuing from a multitude of self - Opinionated thinkers.

John Owen

Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Eleanor Roosevelt

History repeats itself historians repeat each other.

Philip Guedalla

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.

Samuel Johnson

Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled to concentrate to accept conflict and tension to be born everyday to feel a sense of self.

Erich Fromm

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

John Dean

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

Lucille Ball

Courage consists of the power of self - Recovery.

Julie Arabi

My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.

Cary Grant

Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.

Chinese Prove

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. you yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

Buddha

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Ausonius

Defining consultancy is a bit like defining the upper class every possible candidate draws the line just below himself.

John Peet

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

Henry James

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

Samuel Johnson

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

Will Rogers

Death in itself is nothing but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where.

John Dryden

Self - Help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself.

Morarji Ranchhodji Desai

My business is not to remake myself, But make the absolute best of what God made.

Robert Browning

We never get to love by hate, least of all by self - Hatred.

Basil W. Maturin

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all.

Jules Renard

The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.

Joseph Sobran

My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...

Trieu Thi Trinh