Self Quotes
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
A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate.La Rochefoucauld
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.Thomas Jefferson
The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking - Glass.Boileau
I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government but civilization itself.Gerald R. Ford, Inaugural Address, 9 August 1974
No man ever listened himself out of a job.Calvin Coolidge
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ
The people that one bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - Bread and circuses.Juvenal
Nature is wont to hide herself.Heraclitus, On the Universe
A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - That is myself.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, "Meditations", book 2.
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.Joseph Campbell
No man is an island, entire of itself every man is a piece of the continent.John Donne
Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.Jose Ortega y Gasset
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.Mark Twain
It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.Eleanor Roosevelt
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Conventionality is not morality. Self - Righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.Charlotte Bronte
Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, August 2004
Forgive many things in others nothing in yourself.Ausonius
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
Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self - Made laws.Sir Richard Francis Burton
Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure.Joseph Sugarman
Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the insidiousness of self - Praise, and all the ill - Desert of falsehood.Tyron Edwards
Never esteem anything as an advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self - Respect.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.Joaquin Setanti
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.Jacopo Sannazaro
Never feel self - Pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.Millicent Fenwick
Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.John Sturart Mill, Defence of Hedonism
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.Robert Louis Stevenson
An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.Samuel Smiles
If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.Napolean Hill
The difficult child is the child who is unhappy. He is at war with himself; and in consequence, he is at war with the world.A. S. Neill, Summerhill
First mend yourself, and then mend others.Jewish Prove
You must be willing to protect yourself and what you cherish, no matter what the cost.Christopher Paolini, Author of Eragon and Eldest. Quote from Eragon.
A man is as old as he feels himself to be.English Prove
I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.Mohandas Ghandi
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke and that the joke is oneself.Clifton Paul Fadiman
