Self Quotes

Agnes repplie - it is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it...
You give little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Kahlil Gibran
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die and do not outlive yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell.
John Milton, Paradise Lost
Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.
Thomas a Kempis
Thomas fulle - learning makes a man fit company for himself....
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion... I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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
Nancy friday - when i stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of...
President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.
Ralph Nade
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
George Bernard Shaw
Few are agreeable in conversation, because each thinks of what he intends to say than of what others are saying, and listens no more when he himself has a chance to speak.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I have a prejudice against people who print things in a foreign language and add no translation. When I am the reader, and the other considers me able to do the translating myself, he pays me the quite a nice compliment - - But if he would do the translating for me I would try to get along without the compliment. A Tramp Abroad, 1880.
Mark Twain
Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.
Dr. David M. Burns
Blessed is he who has has learned to laugh at himself for he shall never cease to be entertained.
Shirley MacLaine
Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.
Saint Basil
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self - Evident.
Arthur Schopenhaue
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
Michel de Montaigne
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
Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.
Chinese Prove
The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.
George Washington Allston
If you sit down at set of sun And count the acts that you have done, And counting find One self - Denying deed, one word That eased the heart of him who heard One glance most kind That fell like sunshine where it went - Then you may count that day well spent.
George Eliot
An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
Washington Irving
Self - Esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self - Esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
Bette Midle
If a child lives with approval, he learns to live with himself.
Dorothy Law Nolte
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
The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself and carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion. It is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion.
Auguste Renoi
He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self - Love seems so often unrequited.
Anthony Powell
Who to himself is law, no law doth need.
Arthur Chapman
There will be a time when loud - Mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails.
Richard Rybolt
To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
Simone de Beauvoi
A competent and self - Confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
Robert Anson Heinlein
He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
Lao Tzu
Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.
Confucius, Analects, XV. 24
Greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.
William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
You give but little when you give of your posessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Kahlil Gibran, The Prohpet, 1923
Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If your house is on fire, warm yourself by it.
Danish prove
But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.
William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II Scene 6
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol