Self Quotes
I check myself every day just to make sure this is the same person.Tony Kanal
If your house is on fire, warm yourself by it.Danish prove
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.Henry David Thoreau
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.Rainer Maria Rilke
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.Galileo Galilei
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.Oscar Wilde
About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.Michael Caine, www. aint - It - Cool - News. com
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
Education must provide the opportunities for self - Fulfillment it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.Noam Chomsky
Insist on yourself never imitate... Every great man is unique.Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.Samuel Johnson
Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use.Peter Mere Latham
Rather do what is nothing in the purpose than to be idle, that the devil may find thee doing. The bird that sits is easily shot when the fliers escape the fowler. Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all the virtues, and is the self - Made sepulcher of a living man.Francis Quarles
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
It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one but the success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest better lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune...Samuel Smiles
A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.Henry Ward Beeche
People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - Are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a have type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a have not type of self.Eric Hoffe
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
Psychoanalysis is that mental illnes for which it regards itself a therapy.Karl Kraus
A man of understanding has lost nothing, if he has himself.Michel de Montaigne
The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man and without this all other education is good for nothing.R. D. Hitchcock
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self - Interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self - Love, and never talk to them of our own neccessities but of their advantages.Adam Smith
I hate mankind, for I think of myself as one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.Samuel Johnson
Do you know what a pessimist is A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.George Bernard Shaw
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self - Confidence.Robert Frost
Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.Doris Lessing
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.Robert Louis Stevenson
Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.Jane Wagne
If you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, then make that change.Michael Jackson, Man In The Mirro
There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.Proverbs 137 Bible
Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.Robert Bolt
The self - Controlled soul, who moves amongst sense objects, free from either attachment or repulsion, he wins eternal Peace.Bhagavad Gita
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness to an opponent, tolerance to a friend, your heart to your child, a good example to a father, deference to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you to yourself, respect to all men, charity.Francis Maitland Balfou
A self - Balancing, 28 - Jointed adaptor - Based biped; an electro - Chemical reduction plant, integral with segregated stowages of special energy extracts in storage batteries, for subsequent actuation of thousands of hydraulic and pneumatic pumps, with motors attached; 62, 000 miles of capillaries....R. Buckminster Fulle
Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables, Leaving her wedding - Garlands to decay - - Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses.Charles Kingsley
Self awareness is NOT just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.Robert Anson Heinlein
