Self Quotes
I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.Samuel Johnson
Rigidly organized pre - School classrooms, which value obedience more than development, create the deficits in poor children, imposing a self - Image of marginality and failure.Valerie Polakow
He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him if stronger, spare thyself.William Shakespeare
A man of understanding has lost nothing, if he has himself.Michel de Montaigne
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.Albert Einstein
Thinking The talking of the soul with itself.Plato
Responsiblity is a unique concept. It can only reside and inhere in a single individual. You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished. You may delegate it, but it is still with you. You may disclaim it, but you cannot divest yourself of it.Admiral Hyman Rickove
If heaven is going to be full of people like Hardie, well, the Almighty can have them to himself.Sir Winston Churchill
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.Robert Fritz
Preparation is not the enemy of success, but a dear friend. Be good to yourself and the favor will return.Samuel Cunningham
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.Horace Mann
If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself.Horace
Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self - Respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.Thomas Huxley
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.George Bernard Shaw
Becoming a star may not be your destiny, but being the best you can be is a goal that you can set for yourself.Brian Lindsay
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
If an artist is not able to commit himself totally to his art, how can he expect the world to do so.Unknown
Sometimes you have to play for a long time to be able to play like yourself.Miles Davis
Increase your personal power through positive and powerful communication. Recognize and eliminate negative self talk.Caterina Rando
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.Aaron Copland
Be fully in the moment, open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.Ernest Hemingway
As long as I am an American citizen and American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject.Elija Lovejoy
He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.Chuang - Tzu, The Great Supreme
It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one but the success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest better lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune...Samuel Smiles
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.Jose Ortega y Gasset
Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.Johann von Goethe
History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.Kahlil Gibran
The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.Robert Ingersoll
The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself and carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion. It is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion.Auguste Renoi
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong.Jane Austen
My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.Robert Browning
A fanatic is one compelled to action by the need to find a strong meaning in life. The fanatic determines for himself what role he is to play in life, and his intense devotion to a cause is the means.Eugene E. Brussell
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 wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - - That is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.James Thurbe
Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - They bear no fruit.Francis Marion
