Self Quotes

Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul.

Pythagorus

Do whatever comes your way as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people and other things that are interesting. Put a good deal of thought into happiness that you are able to give.

Roosevelt, Eleano

The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self - Two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.

Pope John Paul II

A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.

Jean - Paul Sartre, Upon refusing the Nobel Prize, Oct. 22, 1964

Never feel self - Pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

Millicent Fenwick

I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.

William Blake

All the blessings which you pray to obtain hereafter could be yours today, if you did not deny them to yourself.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations? Book Twelve

Everyone needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life.

Julia T. Alvarez

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim.

Graham Greene, Heart of the Matter (1948)

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

Rebecca West

Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.

Rita Mae Brown

Self - Trust, we know, is the first secret of success.

Lady Wilde

If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up, that is exactly what you will be.

Robert Collie

Self - Confidence is something caught and not taught. And, risk - Running and chance - Taking are the only ways to catch it.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences of life.

Gottfried Reinhardt

Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

Mark Twain

I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world.

Russell Bake

You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.

John Ruskin

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full - On metamorphosis.

Martha Beck, O Magazine, Growing Wings, January 2004

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

Seneca

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore and diverting himself and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell that ordinary while the greater ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Isaac Newton

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

How anybody dresses is indicative of his self - Concept. If students are dirty and ragged, it indicates they are not interested in tidying up their intellects either.

S Hayakawa

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward in my actions and not from them.

Hugh Prathe

In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark.

Nicholson Bake

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

Benjamin Disraeli

Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.

Igor Stravinski

Most maxim - Mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.

Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

John Cage

Occasionally, I have to think like myself to remember where I put something.

Sue S. Taylo

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.

Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to J. M. Cutts, October 26, 1863

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

Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed: for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess.

Rene Descartes, Discourse on Method

Respect yourself and others will respect you.

Confucius

I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human with the soul of a clown, which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.

Jim Morrison

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

Albert Einstein