Self Quotes

Dare to be yourself.

Andre Gide

Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night

I looked with chameleon eyes upon the changing face of the world, looked with anonymous vision upon my uncompleted self.

Anais Nin, House of Incest

Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial.

Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

Unless you are prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.

Orison Swett Marden

Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all, and if thee continually talks of thyself as being old, thee may perhaps bring on some of the infirmities of age. At least I would not risk it if I were thee.

Hannah Whitall Smith, 1907

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

Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.

Immanuel Kant, CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON

Give yourself something to work toward - - Constantly.

Mary Kay Ash

The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.

Hasidic Saying

He who makes a beast of himself relieves himself the pain of being a man.

Hunter S. Thompson

Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.

Thomas Fulle

What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

Confucius

Educate your children to self - Control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

Benjamin Franklin

I paint self - Portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

Frida Kahlo

Few people think more than two or three times a year I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

George Bernard Shaw

When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy.

Anon.

The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.

Blaine Lee

Self - Pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.

Helen Kelle

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

The salary of the chief executive of the large corporations is not an award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm gesture by the individual to himself.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Queen Christina

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

I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Economy.

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

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Benjamin Franklin

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Sigmund Freud

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

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.

Stanislaus

He who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

John Milton

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.

Og Mandino

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

Epictetus

The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.

Wystan Hugh Auden

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

G. C. Lichtenberg