Self Quotes

I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles.

Anais Nin

It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

Queen Christina, of Sweden, 1629 - 1689

The tragic mistake of so many in the environmentalist movement is the belief that the rest of the world can afford to hold itself to our expensive green standards.

Jonathan Berry

Friends are relatives you make for yourself.

Eustache Descamps

There will always be one who loves, and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - If I can remember any of the damn things.

Dorothy Parke

It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You must be willing to protect yourself and what you cherish, no matter what the cost.

Christopher Paolini, Author of Eragon and Eldest. Quote from Eragon.

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

George Bernard Shaw

When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.

Isaac Bashevis Singe

I define comfort as self - Acceptance. When we finally learn that self - Care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.

Jennifer Louden

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.

Francis Quarles

Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You cannot get there by bus, only by hard work, risking and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you will discover will be wonderful; yourself.

Alan Alda

What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

The very fact of its finding itself in agreement with other minds perturbs it, so that it hunts for points of divergence, feeling the urgent need to make it clear that at least it reached the same conclusions by a different route.

Herbert Butterfield

A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.

George Bernard Shaw

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?

Rabbi Hillel

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

Elisabeth Kuebler - Ross

Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.

Robert Ingersoll

When your work speaks for itself, dont interrupt.

Henry J. Kaise

I have impeached myself by resigning.

Richard Milhous Nixon

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self - Interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self - Love, and never talk to them of our own neccessities but of their advantages.

Adam Smith

Respect yourself and others will respect you.

Confucius

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

Do I contradict myself Very well then I contradict myself,

Walt Whitman

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

Sir Winston Churchill

By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self - Denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?

Jackie Mason

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.

Bjarne Stroustrup

This coffee plunges into the stomach... the mind is aroused, and ideas pour forth like the battalions of the Grand Army on the field of battle.... Memories charge at full gallop... the light cavalry of comparisons deploys itself magnificently; the artillery of logic hurry in with their train of ammunition; flashes of wit pop up like sharp - Shooters.

Honore de Balzac

Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

Life itself is a quotation.

Jorge Luis Borges

It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.

Dag Hammarskjld

The greatest productive force is human selfishness.

Robert A. Heinlein

It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self - Centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self - Reliance

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

Sir Winston Churchill

History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.

Kahlil Gibran

Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self - Made laws.

Sir Richard Francis Burton