Self Quotes

Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light.

Baltasar Gracian

Even pleasure itself is a toil.

Manilius

Self - Respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.

H. L. Mencken

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

David Viscott

Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled to concentrate to accept conflict and tension to be born everyday to feel a sense of self.

Erich Fromm

I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

Groucho Marx

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

I do not think myself to be a worm, and a grub, grass of the field fit only to be burned, a clod, a morsel of putrid atoms that should be thrown to the dungheap, ready for the nethermost pit. Nor if I did should I therefore expect to sit with Angels and Archangels.

Anthony Trollope

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

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self - Evident.

Arthur Schopenhaue

If I ever reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there first, to meet some I had not thought to see there second, to miss some I had expected to see there and third, the greatest wonder of all, to find myself there.

John Newton

I have a cat named Trash. In the current political climate it would seem that if I were trying to sell him at least to a Computer Scientist, I would not stress that he is gentle to humans and is self - Sufficient, living mostly on field mice. Rather, I would argue that he is object - Oriented.

Roger King

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.

Albert Einstein

One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, Have a nice day.

Peter Brodie

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

Albert Einstein

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.

Kahlil Gibran

Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.

Alice James

Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself.

Liberace

Self - Sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

George Bernard Shaw

Self - Help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself.

Morarji Ranchhodji Desai

The more you talk to yourself, the more apt you are to lie.

Author Unknown

You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die and do not outlive yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.

Susan B. Anthony

The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self - Respect, dignity, integrity, and self - Esteem.

Dr. Laura Schlessinge

Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous. But to an even greater degree than the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of carelessness, incapacity, or neglect.

Anonymous

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

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.

Brian Aldiss

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

Jim Rohn

The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.

Blaine Lee

The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.

Sonya Friedman

To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.

Richard Whately

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 only thing we have to fear is fear itself - - Nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

Richard Milhous Nixon

I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know that there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.

Albert Camus

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

Kahlil Gibran

The most disturbing and wasteful emotions in modern life, next to fright, are those which are associated with the idea of blame, directed against the self or against others.

Marilyn Ferguson