Self Quotes
It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.Queen Christina, of Sweden, 1629 - 1689
If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you started.Marcus Garvey
The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.Charles Dudley Warne
A man is as old as he feels himself to be.English Prove
Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.Maya Angelou
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.Robert Louis Stevenson
Blessed are they who heal you of self - Despisings. Of all services which can be done to man, I know of none more precious.William Hale White
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.Robert Anson Heinlein
First make yourself unpopular, then people will take you seriously.Konrad Adenauer, 1876 - 1967
First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ, 1420
What makes the difference between a Nation that is truly great and one that is merely rich and powerful It is the simple things that make the difference. Honesty, knowing right from wrong, openness, self - Respect, and the courage of conviction.David L Boren
Experience does not ever err. It is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your experiments.Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks
Self - Love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing people a favor, and vise versa.Dr. Karl A. Menninge
Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self - Governing people.Woodrow Wilson
The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.Havelock Ellis, Impressions and Comments (1914)
He who cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself.George Herbert
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself".
A crisis does not always appear to a policymaker as a series of dramatic events. Usually it imposes itself as an exhausting agenda of petty chores demanding both concentration and endurance.Henry Kissinger, Years of Upheaval
I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.Joseph Baretti
He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.Hesiod
The man who comes with a tale about others has himself an ax to grind.Chinese prove
Life itself is a quotation.Jorge Luis Borges
Habit, my friend, is practice long pursued, that at last becomes man himself.Evenus
What ought a man to be Well, my short answer is himself.Henrik Ibsen
Remember Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - Then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.Endicott Peabody
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self - Confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.Arnold Bennett
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene 3
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, this is no other life but this.Henry David Thoreau
It is one of those beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.Charles Dudley Warne
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
When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer - Say traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep - It is on such occasions that my ideas flow best, and most abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not, nor can I force them...Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
No book has yet been written in praise of a woman who let her husband and children starve or suffer while she invented even the most useful things, or wrote books, or expressed herself in art, or evolved philosophic systems.Anna Garlin Spence
There is nothing like returing to a place that remains uncganged to find how you yourself have altered.Nelson Mandela
I am a poet. I lock myself in my room with a type writer so I can talk in terms of the world that has put me here.Eric Pio
