Self Quotes

Hannah whitall smith, 1907 - let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as...
Albert einstein, quoted in scientific american, september 2004, page 69 - no one but a theorist believes his theory;...
The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.
Giovanni Ruffini
Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.
Baltasar Gracian
He that plants trees loves others beside himself.
Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.
Maitri Upanishads
The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice; rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.
Thomas a Kempis
A friend is somebody you want to be around when you feel like being by yourself.
Barbara Burrow
Groucho marx - i worked myself up from nothing to a state of...
A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only he himself can damage that. His reputations what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity.
John Ballantine Gough
Habit, my friend, is practice long pursued, that at last becomes man himself.
Evenus
If you have no confidence in yourself you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won before you have started.
Marcus Garvey
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
Benjamin Disraeli
Maturity beings to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.
John MacNaughton
Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.
Lyman Beeche
He who allows himself to be insulted, deserves to be.
Pierre Corneille
Women with pasts interest men... they hope history will repeat itself.
Mae West
There is no greater joy than of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
Henri Bergson
There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.
John Dean
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion... I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Norman Vincent Peale
It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self - Conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to under - Value them.
Henry James
America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant.
Garry Trudeau
Do not try to fight a lion if you are not one yourself.
African Prove
If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself. Minquass.
American Indian Prove
One must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
You have to expect things of yourself before you do them.
Michael Jordan
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
Most powerful is he who has himself in his power.
Seneca
Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
Douglas MacArthu
To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
Simone de Beauvoi
Each bird loves to hear himself sing.
Arapaho Prove
Self - Respect permeates every aspect of your life.
Joe Clark
The only thing to fear is fear itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse - As a man shoots himself.
H. L. Mencken
He who is sorrowful can force himself to smile, but he who is glad cannot weep.
Selma Lagerloef
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress but I repeat myself.
Mark Twain
Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou are not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will?
Thomas a Kempis
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
Sophy Burnham