Self Quotes
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
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
It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self - Centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self - Reliance
Tell no one the secret that you want to keep, although he may be worthy of confidence; for no one will be so careful of your secret as yourself.Saadi, On the Duties of Society
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.Kurt Vonnegut
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
Of all the communities available to us there is not one I would want to devote myself to, except for the society of the true searchers, which has very few living members at any time.Albert Einstein
Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou are not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will?Thomas a Kempis
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...Trieu Thi Trinh
I have great faith in fools - - Self confidence my friends call it.Edgar Allan Poe
When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there... now instead of then.Blaise Pascal
The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.... God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.Pierre Charron
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.Thomas Jefferson
Self - Respect is the fruit of discipline the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.Rabbi Abraham Heschel
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is a present you give yourself.Robert Louis Stevenson
Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.Marva Collins
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.Arthur Brisbane
The giving of love is an education in itself.Roosevelt, Eleano
Of all the self - Fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.Marilyn Ferguson, The Aquarian Conspiracy, 1980
The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master - Something that at time strangely wills and works for itself.Charlotte Bronte
We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - - For no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self - Love.William Hazlitt
The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of Hell and a hell of Heaven.John Milton, Dr. Faustus
When solving a panic you must first ask yourself what you were doing that could possibly frighten an operating system.Peter van der Linden
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.Aaron Copland
A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.Peter McArthu
The surest way to be deceived is to think oneself cleverer than the others.La Rochefoucauld
If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself. Minquass.American Indian Prove
He that plants trees loves others beside himself.Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.Thomas Jefferson
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.Virginia Woolf
I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.Walt Whitman
I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better then the bad.Seneca
An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.Bonnie Friedman, in New York Times
Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, And know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, No coincidences, All events are blessings given to us to learn from.Elizabeth Kubler - Ross
How anybody dresses is indicative of his self - Concept. If students are dirty and ragged, it indicates they are not interested in tidying up their intellects either.S Hayakawa
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.Albert Einstein
