Self Quotes
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.Elie Wiesel
As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.Leonardo DaVinci
A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.Voltaire
Even pleasure itself is a toil.Manilius
People are unreasonable, illogical, and self - Centered. Love them anyway.Mother Theresa
Love is our response to our highest values. Love is self - Enjoyment. The noblest love is born out of admiration of another? s values.Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.Samuel Adams
Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.Samuel Johnson
We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - - For no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self - Love.William Hazlitt
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.Michel de Montaigne
Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.James A. Garfield
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.Charlie Chaplin
Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.Alice James
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.Sir Winston Churchill
If you have a brain in your head and feet in your shoes, you can steer youeself in any direction you choose.Dr. Seuss
Be not surprised if thou findest thyself in possession of unexpected wealth. Allah will provide an unexpected use for it.James J. Roche
I think that their flight from and hatred of technology is self - Defeating. The Buddha rests quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer of the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha - - which is to demean oneself.Robert M. Pursig, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance".
If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.Marvin Gaye
To handle yourself, use your head To handle others, use your heart.Roosevelt, Eleano
I still have a lot to learn - About the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting.Britney Spears
There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.La Bruyere
Whoever is open, loyal, true of humane and affable demeanour honourable himself, and in his judgement of others faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man.... such a man is a true gentleman.Ralph Waldo Emerson
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.Abraham Maslow
He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.M. C. Esche
If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built - In mental disorder which drives him towards self - Destruction.Arthur Koestle
Building castles in the air, and making yourself a laughing - Stock.Miguel de Cervantes
Education must provide the opportunities for self - Fulfillment it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.Noam Chomsky
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.Hunter S. Thompson
If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.Napolean Hill
Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self - Knowledge if you explore them.Marilyn Ferguson
The worst of all deceptions is self - Deception.Saul Bellow
Self - Respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.Rabbi Abraham Heschel
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself and can never be erased.Alexander Hamilton
People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - Are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a have type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a have not type of self.Eric Hoffe
You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose.Jo Coudert, "Advice From A Failure".
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 great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.Pope John Paul II
