Self Quotes

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.

Francis Maitland Balfou

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.

Jacopo Sannazaro

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

Robert Louis Stevenson

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Johann von Goethe

Once in a while you have to take a break and visit yourself.

Audrey Giorgi

Each bird loves to hear himself sing.

Arapaho Prove

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

John Dean

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he who thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

C. C. Colton

A threat is basically a means for establishing a bargaining position by inducing fear in the subject. When a threat is used, it should always be implied that the subject himself is to blame by using words such as You leave me no other choice but to...

CIA Manual

He who despises himself nevertheless esteems himself as a self - Despiser.

Friedrich Nietzsche

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself First, what could I do Second, what could I read And third, who could I ask.

Jim Rohn

Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself.

Frank Crane

Let him that would move the world, first move himself.

Socrates

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

Antoine De Saint - Exupery

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.

Miguel de Cervantes

Enjoy things which are pleasant; that is not the evil: it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.

Thomas Carlyle

Enjoy things which are pleasant that is not the evil it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.

Thomas Carlyle

The honey from the flowers of the senses, Ever present within, ruler of time, Goes beyond fear. For this Self is Supreme.

Maitri Upanishads

Everyone is in business for himself, for he is selling his services, labor or ideas. Until one realizes that this is true he will not take conscious charge of his life and will always be looking outside himself for guidance.

Sidney Madwed

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

Henry David Thoreau

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out.

Judith Rossne

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

G. K. Chesterton

Responsiblity is a unique concept. It can only reside and inhere in a single individual. You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished. You may delegate it, but it is still with you. You may disclaim it, but you cannot divest yourself of it.

Admiral Hyman Rickove

Do you know what a pessimist is? A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

George Bernard Shaw, An Unsocial Socialist (1887) ch. 5

I know all except myself.

Francois Villon, Ballade des Menus Propres

Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.

Jimmy Carte

A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self - Addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.

Ring Lardner, "How to Write Short Stories".

It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to be kind to another, without helping himself.

Bailey

You want to raise your child in such a way that you don? t have to control him, so that he will be in full possession of himself at all times. Upon that depends his good behavior, his health, his sanity.

L. Ron Hubbard, Book: Child Dianetics

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Learning makes a man fit company for himself.

Thomas Fulle

Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

Epictetus

You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself.

Harry Firestone

I have great faith in fools - - Self confidence my friends call it.

Edgar Allan Poe

The very fact of its finding itself in agreement with other minds perturbs it, so that it hunts for points of divergence, feeling the urgent need to make it clear that at least it reached the same conclusions by a different route.

Herbert Butterfield