Self Quotes

Johann wolfgang von goethe - i do not know myself, and god forbid that i...
Francis quarles - read not books alone, but men, and amongst them...
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
Cynthia Ozick
The art of advice is to make the recipient believe he thought the thought of it himself.
Frank Tyge
He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him if stronger, spare thyself.
William Shakespeare
If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
Napolean Hill
Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
Mark Twain
The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self - Love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self - Absorption.
Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self - Gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Kelle
Albert camus - to know oneself, one should assert oneself....
Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
He who knows others is wise; He who know himself is enlightened.
Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
The soul who meditates on the Self is content to serve the Self and rests satisfied within the Self there remains nothing more for him to accomplish.
Bhagavad Gita
You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentrate on being happy with yourself as you are.
J. Jacques, Questionable Content webcomic, #352, 05 - 04 - 05
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
Jacopo Sannazaro
Friendship with oneself is all - Important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt
There are at least two kinds of cowards. One kind always lives with himself, afraid to face the world. The other kind lives with the world, afraid to face himself.
Roscoe Snowden
All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self - Evident.
Arthur Schopenhaue
People who imagine themselves to be self - Made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail.
Richard Russo
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell.
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Letters, 1952
Where talent is a dwarf, self - Esteem is a giant.
J. Petit - Senn
Get into the habit of asking yourself if what you are doing can be handled by someone else.
Author Unknown
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
You grow up the day you have your first real laugh - - At yourself.
Ethel Barrymoore
I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.
Johann Kaspar Lavate
Whoever is open, loyal, true of humane and affable demeanour honourable himself, and in his judgement of others faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man.... such a man is a true gentleman.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The reason of a resolution is more to be considered than the resolution itself.
Sir John Holt
Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens
There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living... a way in which life itself is sheer knowing.
Laurens Van der Post, Venture to the Interior (1951)
Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself.
Bertrand Russell
No man ought to lay a cross upon himself, or to adopt tribulation, as is done in popedom but if a cross or tribulation come upon him, then let him suffer it patiently, and know that it is good and profitable for him.
Martin Luthe
There is always someone worse off than yourself.
Aesop
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.
Alice James
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
Thomas Jefferson
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self - Confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
Arnold Bennett
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self - Control. Against such things, there is no law.
The Apostle Paul (Saul of Tarsus), The Bible - Galations 5: 22 - 23 NIV
Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for beingWhy thou wert there, O rival of the roseI never sought to ask, I never knewBut, in my simple ignorance supposeThe selfsame power that brought me there brought you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson