Self Quotes

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

Kahlil Gibran

The whole object of comedy is to be yourself and the closer you get to that, the funnier you will be.

Jerry Seinfeld

May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.

Voltaire

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Live each season as it passes breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.

Henry David Thoreau

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

Let no one flatter himself of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.

Saint Augustine

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Oscar Wilde

Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.

Matthew Arnold

Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.

Sir Thomas Browne

Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

Chief Seattle

If you want your eggs hatched, sit on them yourself.

Haitian Prove

Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou are not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will.

Thomas a Kempis

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Mark Twain

The self - Controlled soul, who moves amongst sense objects, free from either attachment or repulsion, he wins eternal Peace.

Bhagavad Gita

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Charles Baudelaire

Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.

Sir John Gielgud

There is an atmosphere of well - Sounding oratory that likes to attach itself to dress clothes. Away with it.

Albert Einstein

There has already been published by the bucketfuls such brazen lies and utter fictions about me that I would long since have gone to my grave if I had let myself pay attention to that.

Albert Einstein

First say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have to do.

Epictetus

One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.

Eric Hoffe

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

Anais Nin

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.

Francis Quarles

There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.

Norman Douglas

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Buddha

For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.

Lyste

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

Heraclitus

Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.

Tom Hopkins

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Oscar Wilde

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

Henry Ward Beeche

The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

Vince Lombardi

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

Mark Twain

Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

Albert Camus

He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.

Numbers 63 Bible Hebrew

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.

Josh Billings

Whoever despises himself still respects himself as one who despises.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil aphorism 78

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.

Brian Aldiss

The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear.

Felix Adle