Self Quotes
Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things First, a dissatisfaction with self - A felt void or need second, a decision to change - To fill the void or need and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change - The willful act of making the change Doing Something.Dr.
We are more wicked together than separately. If you are forced to be in a crowd, then most of all you should withdraw into yourself.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.Jean - Paul Sartre, Upon refusing the Nobel Prize, Oct. 22, 1964
Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for beingWhy thou wert there, O rival of the roseI never sought to ask, I never knewBut, in my simple ignorance supposeThe selfsame power that brought me there brought you.Ralph Waldo Emerson
He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.Hesiod
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore and diverting himself and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary while the greater ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.Ashley Montagu
A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.Peter McArthu
If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath - Breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.Thomas De Quincey, Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts - 1827
The sinners sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action.Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book nine
A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.Jeanne - Marie Roland
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.Albert Camus
A man without justice is a beast, and a man who would make himself a beast forgets the pain of being a man.Timothy Leary
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.Robert Louis Stevenson
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.Cynthia Heimel
A bachelor is a selfish, undeserving guy who has cheated some woman out of a divorce.Don Quinn
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.Gustave Flaubert
When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.W. H. Auden
The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing.R. D. Hitchcock
So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.Francois Rabelais, 1532
When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.Confucious
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself lying to others is relatively an exception.Hietzsche
Who to himself is law, no law doth need.Arthur Chapman
Man is always more than he can know of himself consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.Golo Mann
If you sit down at set of sun And count the acts that you have done, And counting find One self - Denying deed, one word That eased the heart of him who heard One glance most kind That fell like sunshine where it went - Then you may count that day well spent.George Eliot
The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents him; it is the lapidary who gives value to the diamond which the peasant has dug up without knowing its value.Abbe Guillaume Raynal
If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.Orison Swett Marden
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.Auguste Rodin
Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
You give little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.Kahlil Gibran
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
It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.Salvador Dali
No really great man ever thought himself so.William Hazlitt
Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.J. K. Rowling
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.Franz Kafka
As I see it, every day you do one of two things build health or produce disease in yourself.Adelle Davis
The more you talk to yourself, the more apt you are to lie.Author Unknown
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself".
