Self Quotes
One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, Have a nice day.Peter Brodie
When money is seen as a solution for every problem, money itself becomes the problem.Richard Needham
Never feel self - Pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.Millicent Fenwick
His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old stories had a grain or two of truth in them and it was best not to take chances. It was why, he said, he crossed himself whenever a black cat crossed his path.Stephen King
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill anothe.Alan Stewart Paton
The very fact of its finding itself in agreement with other minds perturbs it, so that it hunts for points of divergence, feeling the urgent need to make it clear that at least it reached the same conclusions by a different route.Herbert Butterfield
I have great faith in fools - - Self confidence my friends call it.Edgar Allan Poe
What a man thinks of himself that is what determines, or rather indicates his fate.Henry David Thoreau
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving.Albert Einstein
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.George Bernard Shaw
I have found a desire within myself that no experience in this world can satisfy; the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.C. S. Lewis
When solving a panic you must first ask yourself what you were doing that could possibly frighten an operating system.Peter van der Linden
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.Andre Maurois
For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the breast, And the heart must pause for breath, And love itself have rest.Lord Byron
When your work speaks for itself, dont interrupt.Henry J. Kaise
Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.Jesse Stuart
I was like a boy playing on the sea - Shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.Isaac Newton
Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.Quintilian
All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
No man is free who is not master of himself.Epictetus
Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.Iris Murdoch
If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
Book dedication To myself, without whose inspired and tireless efforts this book would not have been possible.Al Jaffee
Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self - Same well from which your laughter rises was often - Times filled with your tears.Rene Descartes
He who knows others is wise; He who know himself is enlightened.Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
You never find yourself until you face the truth.Pearl Bailey
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
The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of this world is not to have and to hold but to give and serve. There can be no other meaning.Sir Wilfred T. Grenfell
The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of benevolence and love to men.John Randolph
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.George Bernard Shaw
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.Virginia Woolf
Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.Robert F. Bennett
A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more. Nobody is going to win a 5, 000 meter race after running an easy 2 miles. Not with me. If I lose forcing the pace all the way, well, at least I can live with myself.Steve Prefontaine
Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
He who conquers others is strong He who conquers himself is mighty.Lao Tzu
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.Lord Acton
Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.James A. Garfield
