Self Quotes

When marrying, ask yourself this question Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age Everything else in marriage is transitory.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Frost You may wake up one day and find yourself extinct.

Blade

In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Marechal Ferdinand Foch

Look well into thyself there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - In firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Seneca

Every job is a self - Portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence.

Commitment To Excellence

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

Henry Kissinge

A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only he himself can damage that. His reputations what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity.

John Ballantine Gough

You are the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means.

Dag Hammarskjold

Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.

E. B. White

To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

The planting of trees is the least self - Centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Thornton

Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place.

Jennifer Aniston

There is no limit to stupidity. Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity.

Gene Wolfe

There are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, and the third is useless.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

Experience is an asset of which no worker can be cheated, no matter how selfish or greedy his immediate employer may be.

Napolean Hill

A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service.

Georges Pomidou

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.

Pauline Kael

A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.

Vince Lombardi

Learn to limit yourself, to content yourself with some definite thing, and some definite work; dare to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not and to believe in your own individuality.

Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel

A woman of honor should not expect of others things she would not do herself.

Marguerite de Valois

Formal education will make you a living self - Education will make you a fortune.

Jim Rohn

But words came halting forth, wanting Inventions stayInvention, Natures child, fled step - Dame Studys blows... Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite, Fool, said my Muse to me look in thy heart and write.

Sir Philip Sidney

You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you - - The rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered.

Antoine de Saint - Exupery, The Little Prince

On the touchstone of misfortune a man discovers the strength of understanding and of spirit in kinsmen, wife, servants, and himself.

The Hitopadesa

We are survival machines - Robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.

Richard Dawkings:, "The Selfish Gene".

It is impossible to go through life without trust That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

Graham Greene

Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber.

Ugo Betti

Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness: on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming at something else, they find happiness by the way.

John Stuart Mill

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

John Mui

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

Courage consists of the power of self - Recovery.

Julie Arabi

There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.

George Sarton, History of Science

A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.

William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating

Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.

Johann von Goethe

If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around you own.

Emerson

Fear is nothing except a drain of energy and Not a power unto itself. Trust in yourself, For therein lies the true power.

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