Self Quotes
Talent is like a faucet while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration - A hoax fabricated by poets for their self - Importance.Jean Anouilh
Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.Iris Murdoch
There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.La Bruyere
It is impossible to better yourself if you do not know what it means to be better.Unknown
You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.Beryl Markham
Conquering others takes force, conquering yourself is true strength.Lao - Tzu
The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.Claude Levi - Strauss
Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.H. L. Mencken
The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall to - Day be uppermost.Confucius
Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences of life.Gottfried Reinhardt
What you love is a sign from your higher self of what you are to do.Sanaya Roman
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
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) Valley of Fear, 1915
Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.John Updike
Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.Desiderius Erasmus
Most maxim - Mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
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
N. B. Fear itself. See also H. D. Thoreau.Franklin D. Roosevelt
Boldness in itself is genius.L. Ron Hubbard
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.Kurt Vonnegut
It is noble to teach oneself, it is still nobler to teach others.Mark Twain
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
You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself.Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.Cicero
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.John Milton
The academic mind can eat away the very basis of its own assurance... produce contortions when it tries to bend over backward... allow itself to be dismayed by the picture it has created of relentless historical process.Herbert Butterfield
It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self - Improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.Vartan Gregorian
Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.Bernard M. Baruch
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
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill anothe.Alan Stewart Paton
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
If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self - Interest, you can have practically anything you go after.Napoleon Hill
He wrapped himself in quotations - As a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.Rudyard Kipling
Every job is a self - Portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence.Commitment To Excellence
I like less the story that a frog if put in cold water will not bestir itself if that water is heated up slowly and gradually and will in the end let itself be boiled alive, too comfortable with continuity to realize that continuous change at some point may become intolerable and demand a change in behavior.Charles Handy - The Age of Unreason
If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself.Horace
Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.Anthony Robbins
