Self Quotes

Pearl sydenstricker buck - growth itself contains the germ of happiness....
Antoine de saint - exupery - when you give yourself, you receive more than you...
Other people may not have high expectations of me, But I have high expectations for myself.
Shannon Mille
Never violate the sacredness of your individual self - Respect.
Theodore Parke
The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college the task is to help him become a self - Educating man.
C. Wright Mills
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
Benjamin Franklin
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.
Abraham Maslow
The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.
Whitney Young
Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.
Thomas Jefferson
What is the first business of one who practices philosophy To get rid of self - Conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.
Epictetus
Oscar wilde, jack from the importance of being earnest - when one is in town one amuses oneself. when one...
I hate mankind, for I think of myself as one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
Samuel Johnson
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery; none but ourselves can free our minds.
Bob Marley
People feel comfortable around someone who is comfortable with himself.
Clay Aiken, Teen People
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
Paul Tillich
Happiness is a sunbeam, Which may pass through a thousand bosoms Without losing a particle of its original ray Nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, Like the converged light on a mirror, It reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.
Jane Porte
Vigny, more secretAs if in his tower of ivory, retired before noon. N. B. Vigny refers to Comte de Vigny, who locked himself in an ivory tower to work without the influences of man and desire.
Charles Augustin Sainte - Beauve
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 Hammarskjld
Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.
Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, August 2004
He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.
George Herbert
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
Jean Anouilh
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
Sir Richard F. Burton
The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.
James Arthur Baldwin
The power of one is above all things The power to believe in yourself Often well beyond any latent ability previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete, The body is simply the means it uses.
Bryce Courtenay
Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 3
Wherever a set of alternative possible routes toward achieving a given end presents itself, a student movement will tend to choose the one which involves a higher measure of violence or humiliation directed against the older generation.
Lewis S Feue
Real love is a permanently self - Enlarging experience.
M. Scott Peck, O Magazine, February 2004
When you meet the president, you ask yourself, How did it ever occur to anybody that he should be governor much less president.
Henry Kissinge
I think that their flight from and hatred of technology is self - Defeating. The Buddha rests quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer of the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha - - which is to demean oneself.
Robert M. Pursig, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance".
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.
Mark Twain
The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.
I Ching
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
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Saint Teresa of Avila
Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.
Horace, Epistles
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
Anonymous
Know thyself.
Thales, (The Seven Sages) from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Michel de Montaigne
Once in a while you have to take a break and visit yourself.
Audrey Giorgi
The salary of the chief executive of the large corporations is not an award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm gesture by the individual to himself.
John Kenneth Galbraith