Self Quotes

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.
Charles Dickens
George bernard shaw - the only service a friend can really render is to...
Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences of life.
Gottfried Reinhardt
Marcus aurelius, meditations? book twelve - all the blessings which you pray to obtain...
Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.
Nancy Kerrigan
Know thyself.
Thales, (The Seven Sages) from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God is himself mad.
R. D. Laing
Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.
Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, August 2004
Formal education will earn you a living, self - Education make you a fortune.
Unknown
If you have no confidence in yourself you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won before you have started.
Marcus Garvey
A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only he himself can damage that. His reputations what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity.
John Ballantine Gough
Ahhh. A man with a sharp wit. Someone ought to take it away from him before he cuts himself.
Peter da Silva
J. k. rowling - fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself....
The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action. There is no fixed teaching. All I can provide is an appropriate medicine for a particular ailment.
Bruce Lee, Quotation from the book: (The Art of Jeet Kune Do) by Bruce Lee
Mortification from a self - Strength, carried on by ways of self - Invention, unto the end of a self - Righteousness, is the soul and substnace of all false religion in the world.
John Owen
Working with children with autism has provided me with an opportunity to see the world in a different way. I see them strive to overcome obstacles and persevere, and learn to persevere myself. They are my inspiration.
Clay Aiken
The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.
John W. Gardne
Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes reactionary.
Marshal Tito
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
Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee.
Thomas Fulle
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, Jr.
Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness: on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming at something else, they find happiness by the way.
John Stuart Mill
Where talent is a dwarf, self - Esteem is a giant.
J. Petit - Senn
Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.
Seneca
Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
Mencius, Works
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
Foster C. McClellan
I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better then the bad.
Seneca
No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.
Saint John Chrysostom, Letter to Olympia
How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
Publilius Syrus
Friendship with oneself is all - Important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
Trieu Thi Trinh
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you - - Out of love - - Takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice.
Dag Hammarskjld
The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.
Stephen Nachmanovitch
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke and that the joke is oneself.
Clifton Paul Fadiman
The wise should surrender speech in mind, mind in the knowing self, the knowing self in the Spirit of the universe, and the Spirit of the universe in the Spirit of peace.
Maitri Upanishads
Better keep yourself clean and bright you are the window through which you must see the world.
George Bernard Shaw
Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you and act accordingly.
Thomas Jefferson
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery; none but ourselves can free our minds.
Bob Marley
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
Mark Twain