Self Quotes

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity.

Charles Caleb Colton

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.

Josh Billings

As the moon retaineth her nature, though darkness spread itself before her face as a curtain, so the Soul remaineth perfect even in the bosom of the fool.

Akhenaton

Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Glory built on selfish principles is shame and guilt.

William Cowpe

Responsiblity is a unique concept. It can only reside and inhere in a single individual. You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished. You may delegate it, but it is still with you. You may disclaim it, but you cannot divest yourself of it.

Admiral Hyman Rickove

Book dedication To myself, without whose inspired and tireless efforts this book would not have been possible.

Al Jaffee

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self - Love might impair your judgment.

Seneca

Habit, my friend, is practice long pursued, that at last becomes man himself.

Evenus

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

Alexander Hamilton

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands upon himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Beryl Markham

My friend, if I could give you one thing, I would wish for you the ability to see yourself as others see you. Then you would realize what a truly special person you are.

B. A. Billingsly

He who falls in love with himself, will have no rivals.

Ben Franklin

If an artist is not able to commit himself totally to his art, how can he expect the world to do so.

Unknown

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary monetary matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

William Cobbett

We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and you must win.

Edward Gibbon

A man without justice is a beast, and a man who would make himself a beast forgets the pain of being a man.

Timothy Leary

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

Abraham Lincoln

It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to be kind to another, without helping himself.

Bailey

What is the first business of one who practices philosophy To get rid of self - Conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.

Epictetus

The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself and carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion. It is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion.

Auguste Renoi

I know all except myself.

Francois Villon, Ballade des Menus Propres

Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it repose in Thee.

Saint Augustine, The Confessions. Book 1. (The Harvard Classics. 1909? 14, p. 1)

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on.

Winston Churchill, Quoted in: Irving Klotz, Bending perception, a book review, Nature, 1996, Volume 379, p 412

It is by no means self - Evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.

Thomas Elliot

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

Michel de Montaigne

The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Your central self is totally untouched By grief, confusion, desperation.

Vernon Howard

If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

John Cage

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.

Czech Prove

I give myself, sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Mary Montagu

Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Working with children with autism has provided me with an opportunity to see the world in a different way. I see them strive to overcome obstacles and persevere, and learn to persevere myself. They are my inspiration.

Clay Aiken

There are two ways of meeting difficulties You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.

Phyllis Bottome

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton