Self Quotes

Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself.

American Indian Prove

In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Marechal Ferdinand Foch

He who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

John Milton

You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose.

Jo Coudert, "Advice From A Failure".

As a matter of self - Preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

Diogenes

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

This is the true joy in life - - Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one...

George Bernard Shaw

Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.

Martin Luther King Jr.

I paint self - Portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

Frida Kahlo

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.

Bokonon

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.

Elisabeth Kubler - Ross

Sit quiety, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.

Zen Prove

Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.

Saint Augustine

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

Brian Aldiss

And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that of yourself which you yet know not of.

William Shakespeare

First mend yourself, and then mend others.

Jewish Prove

Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good do good. Be kind be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.

Swami Sivanada

An educated man... is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.

Alan Simpson

This report, by its very length, defends itself against being read.

Winston Churchill

Maturity beings to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.

John MacNaughton

Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self - Confidence and your self - Doubt.

Kahlil Gibran

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.

William S. Burroughs

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self - Same well from which your laughter rises was often - Times filled with your tears.

Rene Descartes

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw

Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

Sarah Bernhardt

Friendship without self - Interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

James F. Byrnes

The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

Henry David Thoreau

The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great man were made by his fortune, his enemies by himself, and revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude.

C. C. Colton

Educate your children to self - Control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.

Daniel Webste

I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself.

John Milton

If you turn your back on these people, you yourself are an animal. You may be a well - Dressed animal, but you are nevertheless an animal.

Edward Irving Koch

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

If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.

Alexandre Dumas, fils