Self Quotes

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

Seneca

It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one but the 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 lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune...

Samuel Smiles

No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, September 2002

Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.

Agatha Christie

The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.

Gustave Flaubert

Self - Confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Samuel Johnson

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

Thomas Fulle

The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it.

Mack R. Douglas

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

There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know these things.

Hal Borland

If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives. Do good anyway.

Mother Theresa

I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me.

Anwar el - Sadat

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

Sir Thomas More

It is noble to teach oneself, but still nobler to teach others - - And less trouble. - Speech, 1906.

Mark Twain

The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking - Glass.

Boileau

He who is calm disturbs neither himself nor others.

Epicurus

What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble.

Benjamin Spock

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

Douglas MacArthu

He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.

Raymond Hull

I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.

Sylvia Plath

There are pauses amidst study, and even pauses of seeming idleness, in which a process goes on which may be likened to the digestion of food. In those seasons of repose, the powers are gathering their strength for new efforts; as land which lies fallow recovers itself for tillage.

J. W. Alexande

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

Thomas Carlyle

If you have a brain in your head and feet in your shoes, you can steer youeself in any direction you choose.

Dr. Seuss

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

He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

Thomas Paine

There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.

Norman Douglas

You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you - - The rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered.

Antoine de Saint - Exupery, The Little Prince

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

Confucius

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

Jane Wagne

God, I offer myself to Thee, to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy power, Thy love and Thy way of life. May I do Thy will always. Amen.

Alcoholics Anonymous Praye

The pain of a disappointed wish necessarily produces less effect upon the mind if a man has not certainly promised himself success. - De Tranquillitate Animi.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I have great faith in fools - - Self confidence my friends call it.

Edgar Allan Poe

I have a cat named Trash. In the current political climate it would seem that if I were trying to sell him at least to a Computer Scientist, I would not stress that he is gentle to humans and is self - Sufficient, living mostly on field mice. Rather, I would argue that he is object - Oriented.

Roger King

God save me from my friends. I can protect myself from my enemies.

Claude Louis Hector de Villars