Self Quotes

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

Mark Twain

Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.

Samuel Johnson

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis, Impressions and Comments (1914)

Nothing is easier than self - Deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.

Demosthenes, Third Olynthiac

The tragic mistake of so many in the environmentalist movement is the belief that the rest of the world can afford to hold itself to our expensive green standards.

Jonathan Berry

A fanatic is one compelled to action by the need to find a strong meaning in life. The fanatic determines for himself what role he is to play in life, and his intense devotion to a cause is the means.

Eugene E. Brussell

A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Loneliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best thing you can do it to know yourself... know what you want.

Janet Fitch, "White Oleander".

Do you want to be a power in the world Then be yourself.

Ralph Waldo Trine

Think to yourself that every day is your last the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.

Horace

The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.

Oscar Wilde

For myself I am an optimist - - It does not seem to be much use being anything else.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

Friendship with oneself is all - Important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.

Joseph Sobran

One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one allows himself to be tamed.

Antoine de Saint - Exupery, The Little Prince

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.

Thomas H. Huxley

Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.

Silius Italicus

It really doesnt matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.

Real Live Preache

Any effort that has self - Glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.

Robert M. Pirsig

Self - Confidence is something caught and not taught. And, risk - Running and chance - Taking are the only ways to catch it.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

When a proud man hears another praised, he feels himself injured.

English Prove

So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

William Shakespeare

When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy.

Anon.

The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and pride in self - Reliance. He is led no longer by Davy Crocketts he is led by cheer leaders, press agents, word mongers, uplifters.

Henry Louis Mencken

For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.

Charles de Gaulle

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

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self - Satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

John Wooden

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe, Berenice

Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.

Epictetus

To establish true self - Esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

Denis Watley

Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.

Benjamin Franklin

There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There will always be one who loves, and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

Be fully in the moment, open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.

Ernest Hemingway

When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.

Antoine De Saint - Exupery

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

Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.

Paul Tillich