Self Quotes
He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.Karl Kraus
Human nature is not of itself vicious.Thomas Paine
Never violate the sacredness of your individual self - Respect.Theodore Parke
The sad news is, nobody owes you a career. Your career is literally your business. You own it as a sole proprietor. You have one employee: yourself. You need to accept ownership of your career, your skills and the timing of your moves.Andrew Grove, Co - Founder and Chairman of Intel Corporation, Only the Paranoid Survive
What you love is a sign from your higher self of what you are to do.Sanaya Roman
Accuse not nature, she hath done her partDo thou but thine, and be not diffidentOf wisdom, she deserts thee not, if thouDismiss not her, when most thou needest her nigh, By attributing overmuch to thingsLess excellent, as thou thyself perceivest.John Milton
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
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.Sir Thomas Browne
The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.Robyn Davidson
The only difference between a madman and myself is that I am not mad.Salvidor Dali
He who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself.John Milton
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)
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
Think highly of yourself, for the world takes you at your own estimate.Author Unknown
Conventionality is not morality. Self - Righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.Charlotte Bronte
He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.Raymond Hull
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
The self - Explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.Elias Canetti
The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.Mark Twain
You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentrate on being happy with yourself as you are.J. Jacques, Questionable Content webcomic, #352, 05 - 04 - 05
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.David Mamet
Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - The world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.Henry Mille
Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.Henry Mille
As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.Joseph Conrad
Ful wys is he that can himselven knowe Very wise is he that can know himself.Geoffrey Chauce
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.Og Mandino
We believe that an artist, in order to be true to himself and his work, must be a free man.John F. Kennedy, Introducing Pablo Casals at a White House dinner, November 1961, at which he performed publicly for the first t
Remember Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - Then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.Endicott Peabody
On the touchstone of misfortune a man discovers the strength of understanding and of spirit in kinsmen, wife, servants, and himself.The Hitopadesa
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
To be proud of virtue is to poison oneself with the antidote.Benjamin Franklin, ?
When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer - Say traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep - It is on such occasions that my ideas flow best, and most abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not, nor can I force them...Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self - Love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self - Absorption.Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.Foster C. McClellan
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.Thomas Jefferson
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself... True happiness is born of self - Reliance.The laws of Manu
