Self Quotes
I believe this nation should commit itself, to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.John F. Kennedy, in a speech on May 25, 1961
No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.Cary Grant
The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.Charles Peguy
Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self - Solicitude is the enemy of well - Being.John Updike
A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.Robert Burton
Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.George Bernard Shaw
Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
To conquer others is to have power, to conquer yourself is to know the way.Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
This above all TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE. And it must follow as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.William Shakespeare
One of the self - Authenticating truths which we come at last to acknowledge is this strange fact that we know that for the evil in our lives we ourselves are responsible, but for the good God alone deserves the praise.John L. Casteel
One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.Eric Hoffe
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man - Given. Be grateful. Conceit is self - Given. Be careful.John Wooden
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.Scott Adams
Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.Horace, Epistles
Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self - Esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.Fritz Perls
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.Albert Camus
No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.A. A. Milne
Men should not trust in God as if God did all, and yet labor earnestly as is he himself did all.Allan K. Chalmers
He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.William Shakespeare
The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self - Seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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
Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul None is more gladdening or fruitful than to know You can regenerate and make yourself what you will.William James
I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.Walt Whitman
Self - Development is a higher duty than self - Sacrifice.Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.Annie Lennox
The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.Henry Mille
Greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that position, the next thing he should do is reach out his arms.Kristin Hunter, O Magazine, November 2003
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
No good poem, however confessional is may be, is just a self - Expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?Robert Cecil Day Lewis
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.Virginia Woolf
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.Christine Bovee
On reflection, one of the things I needed to learn was to allow myself to be loved.Isha McKenzie - Mavinga
Most powerful is he who has himself in his power.Seneca
But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II Scene 6
The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others, and no one thinks about reforming himself.Peter Alcantara
