Self Quotes
Wherever a set of alternative possible routes toward achieving a given end presents itself, a student movement will tend to choose the one which involves a higher measure of violence or humiliation directed against the older generation.Lewis S Feue
There is always someone worse off than yourself.Aesop
As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.Maitri Upanishads
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.Epictetus
Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.Sir Arthur Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World
Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.Marva Collins
The greatest productive force is human selfishness.Robert A. Heinlein
Of all the communities available to us there is not one I would want to devote myself to, except for the society of the true searchers, which has very few living members at any time.Albert Einstein
The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.Seneca
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
I look at my myself and see a stone, I look at my friends and see gold, But I look at you, and see a gem.Unknown
All of the significant battles are waged within the self.Sheldon Kopp
Man will do many things to get himself loved he will do all things to get himself envied.Mark Twain
The secret source of humour itself is not joy, but sorrow. There is no humour in heaven.Mark Twain
Friendship with oneself is all - Important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.Eleanor Roosevelt
If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself. Minquass.American Indian Prove
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.Mark Twain
When the reviews are bad, I tell myself that they can join me as I cry all the way to the bank.Liberace
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
There is no greater joy than of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.Henri Bergson
Popularity comes from allowing yourself to be bored by people while pretending to enjoy it.Karol Newlin
People are unreasonable, illogical, and self - Centered. Love them anyway.Mother Theresa
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.George Bernard Shaw
In order to preserve your self - Respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.Robert Byrne
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.Sir Winston Churchill
Would you hurt a man keenest, strike at his self - Love.Lewis Lew Wallace
To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.Simone de Beauvoi
That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust.Gustave Flaubert, 1, 911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said
How can we expect another to keep our secret, if we cannot keep it ourself.La Rochefoucauld
The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world.Max Born
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.Jim Morrison
Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.Jose Ortega y Gasset
People feel comfortable around someone who is comfortable with himself.Clay Aiken, Teen People
The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself.Noam Chomsky, Ruth Anshen, Biography of an Idea (Mt. Kisco, NY: Moyer Bell Limited, 1986), pg. 196
Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.George Orwell
Other people may not have high expectations of me, But I have high expectations for myself.Shannon Mille
Happiness is a sunbeam, Which may pass through a thousand bosoms Without losing a particle of its original ray Nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, Like the converged light on a mirror, It reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.Jane Porte
