Self Quotes

Dr. dale e. turne - it is the highest form of self - respect to admit...
It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
Charles Baudelaire
Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth.
Sidney Madwed
I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time...
Charles Dickens
Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
Iris Murdoch
Kahlil gibran - love has no other desire but to fulfill itself....
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
Quintilian
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
Erich frohm - as long as anyone believes that his ideal and...
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.
Mark Twain
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
It is noble to teach oneself, but still nobler to teach others - - And less trouble. - Speech, 1906.
Mark Twain
No man is an island, entire of itself every man is a piece of the continent.
John Donne
To establish oneself in the world, one has to do all one can to appear established.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Saint Teresa of Avila
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand.
Woodrow Wilson
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
Alan Watts
He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him if stronger, spare thyself.
William Shakespeare
Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
Samuel Johnson
Adventure is worthwhile in itself.
Amelia Earhart
Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
Heraclitus
I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cut - Throat, competitive world in which I spent my life.
Anthony Perkins
Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.
Thomas a Kempis
Each painting has its own way of evolving... When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.
William Baziotes
Keep thy religion to thyself.
George Carlin
Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.
Thomas Jefferson
The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.
Cicero
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Albert Einstein
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
Modesty and unselfishness - - These are the virtues which men praise - - And pass by.
Andr Maurois
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone.
Samuel Johnson
Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.
Kyle Chandle
You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentrate on being happy with yourself as you are.
J. Jacques, Questionable Content webcomic, #352, 05 - 04 - 05
He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs.
William R Allen
Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you - - Out of love - - Takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice.
Dag Hammarskjld
He that plants trees loves others beside himself.
Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self - Knowledge if you explore them.
Marilyn Ferguson
More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin
For any woman to success in American life she must first do two things Prepare herself for a profession, and marry a man who wants her to succeed as much as she does.
Cathleen Douglas