Self Quotes
Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.Douglas MacArthu
I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself. My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The spirit is the true self.Marcus Tullius Cicero
A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself.Unknown
The sinners sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action.Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book nine
The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be.... Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.Wilfred Peterson, This Week (Oct. 1, 1961)
The world itself is the will to power - And nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - And nothing else!Friedrich Nietzsche, "The Will to Power".
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
But I have always liked bird dogs better than kennel - Fed dogs myself - - You know, one that will get out and hunt for food rather than sit on his fanny and yell.Charles E. Wilson
Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed.Solomon Short
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion... I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
If a child lives with approval, he learns to live with himself.Dorothy Law Nolte
Once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing and from robbing he comes next to drinking and sabbath - Breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.Thamas De Quincey
He that thinks himself the wisest is generally the least so.C. C. Colton
Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings essential to success.John McDonald
The mayor gave no other answer than that deep guttural grunt which is technically known in municipal interviews as refusing to commit oneself.Stephen Butler Leacock
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.Benjamin Franklin
I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know that there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.Albert Camus
Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and archive mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement, against that past.George Steine
Tell no one the secret that you want to keep, although he may be worthy of confidence; for no one will be so careful of your secret as yourself.Saadi, On the Duties of Society
My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self - Defense.Fred Allen
Building castles in the air, and making yourself a laughing - Stock.Miguel de Cervantes
Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Get into the habit of asking yourself if what you are doing can be handled by someone else.Author Unknown
I give myself, sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.Mary Montagu
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - - Great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.Jim Rohn
If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death.Sigmund Freud, his essay on war & death
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering you own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - Every day begin the task anew.Saint Francis de Sales
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.Gustave Flaubert
Nothing is easier than self - Deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.Demosthenes, Third Olynthiac
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.Marcus Aurelius
It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.Betty Friedan
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
When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser.Whittaker Chambers
The man who fights for his fellow - Man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.Clarence Darrow
When you meet the president, you ask yourself, How did it ever occur to anybody that he should be governor much less president.Henry Kissinge
I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
