Self Quotes

I have a cat named Trash. In the current political climate it would seem that if I were trying to sell him at least to a Computer Scientist, I would not stress that he is gentle to humans and is self - Sufficient, living mostly on field mice. Rather, I would argue that he is object - Oriented.
Roger King
Live each season as it passes breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.
Henry David Thoreau
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - In firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Seneca
Thomas adams - he who demands mercy and shows none burns the...
I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.
Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
Robert anson heinlein - self awareness is not just a bunch of amino acids...
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 reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
Sir Winston Churchill
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
Mark Caine
Friendship with oneself is all - Important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
Aaron Copland
To be nobody but yourself, in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
E. E. Cummings
I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.
Kahlil Gibran, The Broken Wings
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.
Earl of Chesterfield
Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
Eric Hoffe
However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society.
Henry David Thoreau
Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.
Agatha Christie
La rochefoucauld - a man convinced of his own merit will accept...
Self - Pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.
John W. Gardne
The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun - Illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?
Edwin Markham
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.
Lucille Ball
Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.
Joel Hawes
All the blessings which you pray to obtain hereafter could be yours today, if you did not deny them to yourself.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations? Book Twelve
In your clothes avoid too much gaudiness do not value yourself upon an embroidered gown and remember that a reasonable word, or an obliging look, will gain you more respect than all your fine trappings.
Sir George Savile
Mediocrity does not see higher than itself. But talent instantly recognizes the genius.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
Sir Richard F. Burton
Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.
Henry David Thoreau
The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world.
Max Born
The art of advice is to make the recipient believe he thought the thought of it himself.
Frank Tyge
God conceals himself from the mind of man, but reveals himself to his heart.
African Prove
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth and truth rewarded me.
Simone de Beauvoi
Nothing is easier than self - Deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
Demosthenes, Third Olynthiac
Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously; and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.
Booth Tarkington
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - That is myself.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, "Meditations", book 2.
Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.
G. C. Lichtenberg
Each painting has its own way of evolving... When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.
William Baziotes
Most powerful is he who has himself in his power.
Seneca
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self - Interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self - Love, and never talk to them of our own neccessities but of their advantages.
Adam Smith