Self Quotes
There will always be one who loves, and one who lets himself be loved.W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.Richard Bach
If you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, then make that change.Michael Jackson, Man In The Mirro
If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up, that is exactly what you will be.Robert Collie
If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self - Respect will you compel others to respect you.Fyodor Dostoevsky
This above all to thine own self be true.William Shakespeare
Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself.American Indian Prove
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.Reggie Leach
It took me twenty years of studied self - Restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public.George Bernard Shaw
Many politicians lay it down as a self - Evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.Lord Macaulay
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
A man, to be greatly good, must magine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and in many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.Percy Bysshe Shelley
Neither a borrower nor a lender be For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. 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
Few are agreeable in conversation, because each thinks of what he intends to say than of what others are saying, and listens no more when he himself has a chance to speak.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
My schoolmates would make love to anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself.Emo Philips
No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it... To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.Thomas Jefferson
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the governing of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address
As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.Adelle Davis
Believe in something larger than yourself.Barbara Bush
You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself.Harvey Firestone
Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.Pearl S. Buck
The art of advice is to make the recipient believe he thought the thought of it himself.Frank Tyge
But words came halting forth, wanting Inventions stayInvention, Natures child, fled step - Dame Studys blows... Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite, Fool, said my Muse to me look in thy heart and write.Sir Philip Sidney
And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheefully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait... And as to you, Life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.Walt Whitman
Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.Martin Luther King Jr.
The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect he becomes an adolescent the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult the day he forgives himself he becomes wise.Alden Nowlan
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.Mark Caine
As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self - Destroying.Arthur C. Clarke
The academic mind can eat away the very basis of its own assurance... produce contortions when it tries to bend over backward... allow itself to be dismayed by the picture it has created of relentless historical process.Herbert Butterfield
The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self - Respect, dignity, integrity, and self - Esteem.Dr. Laura Schlessinge
Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.John Jay Chapman
You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself.Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.Norman Vincent Peale
Give yourself something to work toward - - Constantly.Mary Kay Ash
I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.Oscar Levant
Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.Immanuel Kant, CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON
Knowing others is intelligence knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.Lao Tzu
The reliance on property is... the want of self - Reliance. Men measure the esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is. But a cultivated man becomes ashamed of his property... Essays.Ralph Waldo Emerson
