Self Quotes
I was never less alone than while by myself.Edward Lawrence Gibson
Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.Andre Gide
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
Mediocrity does not see higher than itself. But talent instantly recognizes the genius.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self - Sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.John Foster Dulles
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
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
No man is wise enough by himself.Titus Maccius Plautus, Miles Gloriosus
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.Horace Mann
He is not laughed at who laughs at himself first.Thomas Fulle
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.Anna Quindlen
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self - Restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.Theodore Roosevelt
A threat is basically a means for establishing a bargaining position by inducing fear in the subject. When a threat is used, it should always be implied that the subject himself is to blame by using words such as You leave me no other choice but to...CIA Manual
Do you know what a pessimist is? A person who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself and hates them for it.George Bernard Shaw
Promote yourself, but do not demote another.Israel Salante
Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.Josiah Royce
Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight. Equilibrium is pragmatic. You have to get everything into proportion. You compensate, rebalance yourself so that you maintain your angle to the world. When the world shifts, you shift.Tom Stoppard
Where self - Interest is suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control that dries up the wellspring of initiative and creativity.Pope John Paul II
To find yourself, think for yourself.Socrates, The Apology
There is nothing remarkable about it, all one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.J. S. Bach
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.Marcus Aurelius
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone.Samuel Johnson
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.Rebecca West
It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest; better to lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune.Samuel Smiles
The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.John Updike
He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.John Milton
Men should not trust in God as if God did all, and yet labor earnestly as is he himself did all.Allan K. Chalmers
Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood.Louise Beal
To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.Benjamin Jowett
The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.Cicero
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he who thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.C. C. Colton
A self - Balancing, 28 - Jointed adaptor - Based biped; an electro - Chemical reduction plant, integral with segregated stowages of special energy extracts in storage batteries, for subsequent actuation of thousands of hydraulic and pneumatic pumps, with motors attached; 62, 000 miles of capillaries....R. Buckminster Fulle
I wish everybody would have to have an electric thing implanted in our heads that gave us a shock whenever we did something to disobey the president. Then somehow I get myself elected president.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Magic is believing in yourself. If you can do that, you can make anything happen.Foka Gomez
Pride, like laudanun and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.Frederick Saunders
Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavor. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.Albert Einstein
Man will do many things to get himself loved he will do all things to get himself envied.Mark Twain
