Self Quotes
The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.C. S. Lewis
America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.George Herbert Walker Bush
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Epistle Dedicatory
Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.Agnes Repplie
The world of the commodity is a world updside - Down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work.Raoul Vaneigem
He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.Niccolo Machiavelli
We must not just be in the world and above the world, but also of the world. To love it for what it is... is the only task. Avoid it and you are lost. Loose yourself in it, and you are free.Henry Miller, in a letter to Lawrence Durrell
Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.Nick Richardson
Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.Anthony Robbins
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.C. S. Lewis
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.Robert Louis Stevenson
An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.George Orwell
What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense, we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.Anna Jameson
Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self confidence young. Keep your hope young.Luella F. Phean
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.Friedrich Nietzsche
A patient man is one who can put up with himself.Author Unknown
I have a prejudice against people who print things in a foreign language and add no translation. When I am the reader, and the other considers me able to do the translating myself, he pays me the quite a nice compliment - - But if he would do the translating for me I would try to get along without the compliment. A Tramp Abroad, 1880.Mark Twain
As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.Joseph Conrad
Blessed is he who has has learned to laugh at himself for he shall never cease to be entertained.Shirley MacLaine
That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust.Gustave Flaubert, 1, 911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said
It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self - Improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.Vartan Gregorian
I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast. After she was pelted with eggs during a walkabout on New Zealand visit.Elizabeth II
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.Jean Anouilh
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.Albert Einstein
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone.Samuel Johnson
Do not try to fight a lion if you are not one yourself.African Prove
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.Albert Einstein
No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead. Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study, and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think.John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859
Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.Pearl S. Buck
If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished. Proposal to reform welfare programs.Richard Milhous Nixon
But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.Alfred North Whitehead
A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.Jean - Paul Sartre, Upon refusing the Nobel Prize, Oct. 22, 1964
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
But words came halting forth, wanting Inventions stayInvention, Natures child, fled step - Dame Studys blows... Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite, Fool, said my Muse to me look in thy heart and write.Sir Philip Sidney
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of Mankind is Man.Alexander Pope
