Self Quotes
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say to myself, Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.Lillian
Formal education will make you a living self - Education will make you a fortune.Jim Rohn
A friend is, as it were, a second self.Cicero, De Amicitia
On the touchstone of misfortune a man discovers the strength of understanding and of spirit in kinsmen, wife, servants, and himself.The Hitopadesa
If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me - Nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - But I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.John Keats, Letter to Fanny Brawne, Feb 1820 - Died 1 year late
The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of an endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.Robyn Davidson
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
Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.George Orwell
Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self - Governing people.Woodrow Wilson
The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice; rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.Thomas a Kempis
I am a poet. I lock myself in my room with a type writer so I can talk in terms of the world that has put me here.Eric Pio
She had learned the self - Deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and grasping, but her artifices could not always cover the nakedness of her need to excel.Faith Sullivan, The Cape Ann, 1988
I do not think myself to be a worm, and a grub, grass of the field fit only to be burned, a clod, a morsel of putrid atoms that should be thrown to the dungheap, ready for the nethermost pit. Nor if I did should I therefore expect to sit with Angels and Archangels.Anthony Trollope
Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - And thus make yourself indispensable.Andre Gide
Occasionally, I have to think like myself to remember where I put something.Sue S. Taylo
It is a base thing to look to others for your defense instead of depending upon yourself. That defense alone is effectual, sure, and durable which depends upon yourself and your own valor.Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.Vince Lombardi
Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.Nancy Kerrigan
Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary monetary matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.William Cobbett
I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.Meryl Streep
I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.Groucho Marx
Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.Mencius, Works
For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavouring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.George Orwell
Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it sparkles in the setting of modest self - Distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive any injury.Author Unknown
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.Sun - Tzu
There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.Alfred Adle
But respect yourself most of all.Golden verses of the Pythagoreans
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
Energy is that amazing feeling that comes to life inside of you when you? re happy and believe in yourself.Richard Simmons
Know thyself? A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly.Andre Gide
Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.Plato
The true fanatic is a theocrat, someone who sees himself as acting on behalf of some super personal force the Race, the Party, History, the proletariat, the Poor, and so on. These absolve him from evil, hence he may safely do anything in their service.Lord Billingsley
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
If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.Confucius
He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.Niccolo Machiavelli
If the thunder is not loud, the peasant forgets to cross himself.Assyrian Prove
