Self Quotes

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

Joseph Baretti

If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death.

Sigmund Freud, his essay on war & death

A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.

Alec Waugh

Learn to limit yourself, to content yourself with some definite thing, and some definite work; dare to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not and to believe in your own individuality.

Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel

When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.

Michel de Montaigne

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self - Respect.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations

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

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Affirmations are like prescriptions for certain aspects of yourself you want to change.

Jerry Frankhause

The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.

Titus Livius

The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.

Grayson Kirk

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell, September 28, 1958

Believe in yourself Have faith in your abilities Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

If you must hold yourself up to your children, hold yourself up as an object lesson and not as an example.

Sir Walter Besant

A friend is a second self.

Aristotle

Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood.

Louise Beal

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

Franz Kafka

If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.

D. L. Moody

A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.

Alec Waugh

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea - Shore, and diverting myself in finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean lay all undiscovered before me.

Sir Isaac Newton, Epitaph

The mirror never sees itself. The reflection never is itself.

J. Gregory Keyes, "Babylon 5: Dark Genesis: The Birth of the Psi Corps".

Have no friends not equal to yourself.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

In your clothes avoid too much gaudiness do not value yourself upon an embroidered gown and remember that a reasonable word, or an obliging look, will gain you more respect than all your fine trappings.

Sir George Savile

Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it repose in Thee.

Saint Augustine, The Confessions. Book 1. (The Harvard Classics. 1909? 14, p. 1)

God, I offer myself to Thee, to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy power, Thy love and Thy way of life. May I do Thy will always. Amen.

Alcoholics Anonymous Praye

He had a heart that could have held the empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar.

Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.

Jesse Stuart

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.

Benjamin Spock

Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul.

Pythagorus

Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

Agnes Repplie

I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all.

Jules Renard

Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.

John Lancaster Spalding

Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffered Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night - She was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question - Is this all.

Betty Naomi Friedan

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.

Ethel Barrymore

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

Baltasar Gracian