Self Quotes

William hazlitt - we often choose a friend as we do a mistress - -...
Know, first, who you are and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Epictetus
It took me twenty years of studied self - Restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public.
George Bernard Shaw
One must really have suffered oneself to help others.
Mother Theresa
Risk Risk anything Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
Katherine Mansfield
I have found a desire within myself that no experience in this world can satisfy; the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
C. S. Lewis
How can we expect another to keep our secret, if we cannot keep it ourself.
La Rochefoucauld
Saint augustine - let no one flatter himself of himself he is...
For myself I am an optimist - - It does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
Abraham Lincoln
If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.
John Jay Chapman
Why not be oneself That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound why try to look like a Pekinese.
Edith Sitwell
When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.
Edith Hamilton
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
Baltasar Gracian
The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.
Robyn Davidson
Becoming a star may not be your destiny, but being the best you can be is a goal that you can set for yourself.
Brian Lindsay
This above all TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE. And it must follow as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
William Shakespeare
Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.
Sir Thomas Browne
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
Thomas Jefferson
Self - Denial is not a virtue it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
George Bernard Shaw
Affirmations are like prescriptions for certain aspects of yourself you want to change.
Jerry Frankhause
Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.
Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up.
Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, February 2003
So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
Francois Rabelais, 1532
More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.
Amy Grant
As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.
Joseph Conrad
Self - Trust, we know, is the first secret of success.
Lady Wilde
Practice yourself what you preach.
Titus Maccius Plautus, Asinaria
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
Christine Bovee
Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.
Marva Collins
I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
Susan B. Anthony
Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great Argument About it and about but evermore Came out by the same Door as in I went.
Omar Khayym
One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.
Wilfrid Sheed
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
Lady Nancy Asto
If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.
Marvin Gaye
Above all be true to yourself, and if you can not put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.
Hardy D. Jackson
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.
Mark Twain
God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.
Albert Einstein
Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.
John W. Gardne