Self Quotes

I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me instead of looking within myself to see what was there.

Belle Livingstone

Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously; and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.

Booth Tarkington

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - They bear no fruit.

Francis Marion

The real tradegy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort - He never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.

Arnold Bennett

Self - Respect is the fruit of discipline the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

Rabbi Abraham Heschel

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight and never stop fighting.

E e cummings

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

Sir Thomas Browne

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.

Charles de Gaulle

The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.

Alan Ashley - Pitt

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self - Knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

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

If you feel yourself falling, let go and glide.

Steffen Francisco

But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self - Righteousness - - Each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked - - Each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.

Herbert Butterfield

All the blessings which you pray to obtain hereafter could be yours today, if you did not deny them to yourself.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations? Book Twelve

To make mistakes is human to stumble is commonplace to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.

William Arthur Ward

Know thyself, said the old philosopher, improve thyself, saith the new. Our great object in time is not to waste our passions and gifts on the things external that we must leave behind, but that we cultivate within us all that we can carry into the eternal progress beyond.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

Even pleasure itself is a toil.

Manilius

Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.

Mortimer Adle

I still have a lot to learn - About the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting.

Britney Spears

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Albert Einstein

That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust.

Gustave Flaubert, 1, 911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said

Everyone needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life.

Julia T. Alvarez

The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal - - Or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.

Elizabeth Peters

For want of self - Restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross - Grained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self - Control.

Smiles

Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.

Jesse Stuart

People are unreasonable, illogical, and self - Centered. Love them anyway.

Mother Theresa

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell, September 28, 1958

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

Demosthenes, Olynthiac

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 reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw

We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.

Jane Austen

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself... True happiness is born of self - Reliance.

The laws of Manu

This above all to thine own self be true.

William Shakespeare