Self Quotes

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

Samuel Butle

What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill anothe.

Alan Stewart Paton

Think and feel yourself there! To achieve any aim in life, you need to project the end - Result. Think of the elation, the satisfaction, the joy! Carrying the ecstatic feeling will bring the desired goal into view.

Grace Speare

Know, first, who you are and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

If heaven is going to be full of people like Hardie, well, the Almighty can have them to himself.

Sir Winston Churchill

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

Alexander Hamilton

There is nothing to fear but fear itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The true fanatic is a theocrat, someone who sees himself as acting on behalf of some super personal force the Race, the Party, History, the proletariat, the Poor, and so on. These absolve him from evil, hence he may safely do anything in their service.

Lord Billingsley

Mortification from a self - Strength, carried on by ways of self - Invention, unto the end of a self - Righteousness, is the soul and substnace of all false religion in the world.

John Owen

Somehow he Tim gets thoughtful sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant for them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see.

Charles Dickens

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.

Sir Thomas Browne

A greedy man will always find himself in the shackles of humility.

Imam Ali, Peak of Eloquence (Nahjul Balagha)

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

Anwar el - Sadat

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 mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.

John Milton

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

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

Know thyself.

Thales, (The Seven Sages) from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.

Alec Waugh

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.

Roger Banniste

Real love is a permanently self - Enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck, O Magazine, February 2004

I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself.

Terence, Adelphoe

But true love is a durable fire In the mind ever burning Never sick, never old, never dead From itself never turning.

Sir Walter Raleigh

No one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Charles Dudley Warne

Fortunately psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

Karen Horney

Self - Pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.

John W. Gardne

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

Carl Jung

Instead of solid accomplishments, the man pursues pleasures and self - Gratification. He will never achieve anything so long as he is surrounded by dissipating temptations.

I Ching

A good intention clothes itself with power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

As long as I am an American citizen and American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject.

Elija Lovejoy

Any effort that has self - Glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.

Robert M. Pirsig

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A bird will fall frozen dead from the bow of a ship without ever having felt sorry for itself.

D. H. Lawerence

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

Samuel Johnson

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth and truth rewarded me.

Simone de Beauvoi

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) Valley of Fear, 1915

It is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self - Consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since mathematics, in its own way, also performs this function, it is not only aesthetically charming but profoundly significant. It is an art, and a great art.

John W. N. Sullivan

In your clothes avoid too much gaudiness do not value yourself upon an embroidered gown and remember that a reasonable word, or an obliging look, will gain you more respect than all your fine trappings.

Sir George Savile