Self Quotes

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

George Bernard Shaw

Before a man can wake up and find himself famous he has to wake up and find himself.

Author Unknown

Believe in something larger than yourself.

Barbara Bush

There is more learning in the question itself than the answer.

Andrew Weremy

My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self - Defense.

Fred Allen

The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.

Titus Livius

More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.

Uta Hagan

Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.

Marva Collins

Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.

Jane Wagne

The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of Hell and a hell of Heaven.

John Milton, Dr. Faustus

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government but civilization itself.

Gerald R. Ford, Inaugural Address, 9 August 1974

But respect yourself most of all.

Golden verses of the Pythagoreans

What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.

Roland Barthes, Esprit

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

Make yourself familiar with the angels, and behold them frequently in spirit for without being seen, they are present with you.

Saint Francis de Sales

Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured; try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

Albert Camus

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time...

Charles Dickens

No important institution is ever merely what the law makes it. It accumulates about itself traditions, conventions, ways of behaviour, which are not less formidable in their influence.

Harold Laki

Few are agreeable in conversation, because each thinks of what he intends to say than of what others are saying, and listens no more when he himself has a chance to speak.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Just what is it that America stands for If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self - Governing people.

Woodrow Wilson

There are three classes of intellects one which comprehends by itself another which appreciates what others comprehend and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others the first is the most excellent, the second is good, and the third is useless.

Niccolo Machiavelli

I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.

William Harvey

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

Norman Vincent Peale

One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

Blaise Pascal

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

Simone de Beauvoi

Self - Respect permeates every aspect of your life.

Joe Clark

Get into the habit of asking yourself if what you are doing can be handled by someone else.

Author Unknown

If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self - Interest, you can have practically anything you go after.

Napoleon Hill

Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou are not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will.

Thomas a Kempis

A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service.

Georges Pomidou

There are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, and the third is useless.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

A bachelor is a selfish, undeserving guy who has cheated some woman out of a divorce.

Don Quinn

I still have a lot to learn - About the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting.

Britney Spears

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Benjamin Franklin