Self Quotes
The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.Gustave Flaubert
There will be a time when loud - Mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails.Richard Rybolt
A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.Chinua Achebe
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
Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.Lao Tzu
Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.Thomas Fulle
Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.Andre Gide
Any ordinary man can... surround himself with two thousand books... and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.Augustine Birrell
The honey from the flowers of the senses, Ever present within, ruler of time, Goes beyond fear. For this Self is Supreme.Maitri Upanishads
I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, and receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.Woody Allen
Wherever a set of alternative possible routes toward achieving a given end presents itself, a student movement will tend to choose the one which involves a higher measure of violence or humiliation directed against the older generation.Lewis S Feue
What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self - Conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.Epictetus, Discourses
I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.Joseph Brodsky
The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - Bread and circuses!Juvenal, Satires
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.Arthur Brisbane
As a matter of self - Preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.Diogenes
Once in a while you have to take a break and visit yourself.Audrey Giorgi
The way to final freedom is within thy self.The Book of the Golden Precepts
Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self - Righteous isolation.John Dewey
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.Anna Quindlen
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
Above all things, reverence yourself.Pythagoras
Glory built on selfish principles is shame and guilt.William Cowpe
All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self - Evident.Arthur Schopenhaue
I don? t really do New Year? s resolutions because I don? t think you should have to wait until December to start working on how to change yourself. I think if you? ve got a problem, you need to fix it now.Clay Aiken
A decision is the action an executive must take when he has information so incomplete that the answer does not suggest itself.Arthur W. Radford
Remember! Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - Then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.Endicott Peabody
Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.Adele Brookman
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
Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.Plato
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 secret source of humour itself is not joy, but sorrow. There is no humour in heaven.Mark Twain
The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.Dietrich Bonhoeffe
The best leader is the one who has the sense to surround himself with outstanding people and self - Restraint not to meddle with how they do their jobs.Author Unknown
Vigny, more secretAs if in his tower of ivory, retired before noon. N. B. Vigny refers to Comte de Vigny, who locked himself in an ivory tower to work without the influences of man and desire.Charles Augustin Sainte - Beauve
The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.Shirley MacLaine
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.Mark Twain
