Self Quotes

A human being is an animal suspended in webs of significance which he himself has spun.

Clifford Geertz, "Cultural Anthropology" by Nanda

You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.

Charles Austin Beard, historian

Know thyself? A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly.

Andre Gide

To thine own self be true -; And it must follow as the night the day; Thou canst not be false to any man.

William Shakespeare

There are pauses amidst study, and even pauses of seeming idleness, in which a process goes on which may be likened to the digestion of food. In those seasons of repose, the powers are gathering their strength for new efforts; as land which lies fallow recovers itself for tillage.

J. W. Alexande

If you feel yourself falling, let go and glide.

Steffen Francisco

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

Thomas Jefferson

A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.

Robert Burton

Every job is a self - Portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence.

Commitment To Excellence

He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.

Raymond Hull

As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.

Adelle Davis

I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.

Carl Jung

Better keep yourself clean and bright you are the window through which you must see the world.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Basil W. Maturin

Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.

Eric Hoffe

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Do definite good first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.

John Lancaster Spalding

I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me.

Anwar el - Sadat

The greatist thing in the world is for a man to know how to be himself.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.

William Harvey

Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.

Stephen Leacock, "Nonsense Novels", 1911

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

Will Rogers

Preparation is not the enemy of success, but a dear friend. Be good to yourself and the favor will return.

Samuel Cunningham

There is a luxury in self - Reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.

Hermann Hesse

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - Especially when one is right.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Instead of solid accomplishments, the man pursues pleasures and self - Gratification. He will never achieve anything so long as he is surrounded by dissipating temptations.

I Ching

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

Edith Hamilton

God conceals himself from the mind of man, but reveals himself to his heart.

African Prove

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself... True happiness is born of self - Reliance.

The laws of Manu

I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there.

Fred Allen

Do whatever comes your way as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people and other things that are interesting. Put a good deal of thought into happiness that you are able to give.

Roosevelt, Eleano

As I see it, every day you do one of two things build health or produce disease in yourself.

Adelle Davis

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi