Self Quotes

Bertrand russell - freedom of opinion can only exist when the...
Benjamin disraeli - a man can know nothing of mankind without knowing...
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
Joaquin Setanti
There will always be one who loves, and one who lets himself be loved.
W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - Bread and circuses!
Juvenal, Satires
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. you yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.
Buddha
As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self take the shape Of every creature in whom he is present.
Maitri Upanishads
Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.
Juvenal
Always be a first - Rate version of yourself, instead of a second - Rate version of somebody else.
Judy Garland
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others with out getting a few drops on yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.
Robyn Davidson
Bruce lee - when the opponent expand, i contract, when he...
The worst of all deceptions is self - Deception.
Saul Bellow
Before a man can wake up and find himself famous he has to wake up and find himself.
Author Unknown
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
No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.
Seneca
Do I contradict myself Very well then I contradict myself,
Walt Whitman
There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self.
Demosthenes
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
Calvin Coolidge
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Buddha
I speak BASIC to clients, 1 - 2 - 3 to management, and mumble to myself.
Anon.
A man who works beyond the surface of things, though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way for others and may make even his errors subservient to the cause of truth.
Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry Into The Sublime and Beautiful
The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal - - Or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.
Elizabeth Peters
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
Welsh Prove
Listen within yourself and look into the infinitude of Space and Time. There can be heard the songs of the Constellations, the voices of the Numbers, and the harmonies of the Spheres.
The Divine Pymande
Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
Chief Seattle
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, Discourses
Death in itself is nothing but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where.
John Dryden
No important institution is ever merely what the law makes it. It accumulates about itself traditions, conventions, ways of behaviour, which are not less formidable in their influence.
Harold Laki
When a proud man hears another praised, he feels himself injured.
English Prove
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
George Bernard Shaw
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self - Seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Bible, 1 Corinthians 13: 4 - 7
It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
Graham Greene, The Ministry of Fea
The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.
Publilius Syrus
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
Aristotle, Politics
Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.
Michael Masser and Linda Creed
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
It is a base thing to look to others for your defense instead of depending upon yourself. That defense alone is effectual, sure, and durable which depends upon yourself and your own valor.
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
Sir Thomas More