Self Quotes

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

Cicero, De Amicitia

When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself.

Luigi Pirandello

He who fights monsters should look into it that he himself does not become a monster. When you gaze long into the Abyss, the Abyss also gazes into you.

Friedrich Neitzsche

The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others, and no one thinks about reforming himself.

Peter Alcantara

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To be in love Is to touch with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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

It is the part of a wise man to keep himself to - Day for to - Morrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.

Miguel de Cervantes

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke and that the joke is oneself.

Clifton Paul Fadiman

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

Charles Dickens

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die and do not outlive yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.

Samuel Johnson

Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self - Righteousness.

Sir Robert Hutchinson

A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.

William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

George Bernard Shaw

When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.

Charles De Gaulle

I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, December 2003

Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.

Dame Edna Everage, In a television interview with Joan Rivers

Honesty rare as a man without self - Pity, kinders as large and plain as a prairie wind.

Stephen Vincent Benet

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of Mankind is Man.

Alexander Pope

He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others.

Samuel Foote

I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me.

Anwar el - Sadat

I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.

Sylvia Plath

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.

W. Somerset Maugham

I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast. After she was pelted with eggs during a walkabout on New Zealand visit.

Elizabeth II

Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.

Benjamin Franklin

There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.

Chinese Prove

Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

Mark Twain

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Thomas Jefferson

Self - Confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Samuel Johnson

It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Charles Dudley

There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self.

Demosthenes

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so - Called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

J. B. Priestley

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I knew a man who gave up smoking, drinking, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.

Johnny Carson, people magazine special issue

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus