Self Quotes

Buddha - it is better to conquer yourself than to win a...
John fitzgerald kennedy - irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall...
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 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.
George Bernard Shaw
You grow up the day you have your first real laugh - - At yourself.
Ethel Barrymoore
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless. The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.
William Franklin Billy Graham
Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to knowledge, has proved potentially dangerous, because it has not been accompanied by equal gains in self - Understanding and self - Discipline.
Lewis Mumford
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
Quintilian
Francois de la rochefoucauld - to establish oneself in the world, one has to do...
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
Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
Eric Hoffe
A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
Arthur Mille
Defining consultancy is a bit like defining the upper class every possible candidate draws the line just below himself.
John Peet
A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the faade of his appearance.
Jean Iris Murdoch
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
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
Amy Lowell
The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.
George Washington Allston
When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.
Nancy Friday
I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself.
Terence, Adelphoe
I know all except myself.
Francois Villon, Ballade des Menus Propres
An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.
Publilius Syrus
When a proud man hears another praised, he feels himself injured.
English Prove
Self - Respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.
John Herschel
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self - Satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.
John Wooden
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - Especially when one is right.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde
Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee.
Thomas Fulle
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
H. L. Mencken
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
No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.
William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
I was taught very early that I would have to depend entirely upon myself that my future lay in my own hands.
Darius Ogden Mills
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
Cyril Connolly
It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to be kind to another, without helping himself.
Bailey
The world of the commodity is a world updside - Down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work.
Raoul Vaneigem
He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self - Love seems so often unrequited.
Anthony Powell
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
Anna Freud
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Michael Jordan
to be yourself in a world that is doing its best, day and night to make you like everybody else - - Is to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight.
E. e. cummings
But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.
Alfred North Whitehead