Self Quotes

My business is not to remake myself, But make the absolute best of what God made.

Robert Browning

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world.

Thomas Carlyle

Always be a first - Rate version of yourself, instead of a second - Rate version of someone else.

Judy Garland

Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.

Kyle Chandle

Let us forever forget that every station in life is necessarily that each deserves our respect; that not the station itself; but the worthy fulfillment of its duties does honor the man.

Mary Lyon

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self - Gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Helen Kelle

This quote reminds me to enjoy each moment of the summer Steep thyself in a bowl of summertime.

Virgil

To expect defeat is nine - Tenths of defeat itself.

Francis Crawford

If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity marry, and perpetuate his kind.

Don Marquis

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

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

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self - Conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.

Epictetus, Discourses

If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me - Nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - But I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.

John Keats, Letter to Fanny Brawne, Feb 1820 - Died 1 year late

I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.

Richard Milhous Nixon

The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self - Activity.

Thomas Carlyle

Honesty rare as a man without self - Pity, kinders as large and plain as a prairie wind.

Stephen Vincent Benet

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

Plutarch

He who conquers others is strong He who conquers himself is mighty.

Lao Tzu

Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings essential to success.

John McDonald

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

The man who comes with a tale about others has himself an ax to grind.

Chinese prove

Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.

Jane Wagne

Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self - Inflicted fate.

Albert Einstein

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

Truman Capote

Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.

Joel Hawes

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

Heraclitus

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

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

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

Iris Murdoch

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Albert Einstein

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

Michel de Montaigne

The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man.... such a man is a true gentleman.

Ralph Waldo Emerson