Self Quotes

Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled to concentrate to accept conflict and tension to be born everyday to feel a sense of self.

Erich Fromm

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

Jane Austen

He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.

Eric Hoffe

Above all things, reverence yourself.

Pythagoras

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

Norman Vincent Peale

Who to himself is law, no law doth need.

Arthur Chapman

Preparation is not the enemy of success, but a dear friend. Be good to yourself and the favor will return.

Samuel Cunningham

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.

Samuel Johnson

The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.

Titus Livius

It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.

Salvador Dali

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

Phyllis Battone

Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.

Plato

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations

But he that is the greatest among you shall be your servant. And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abused and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.

Matthew 2311, 12 Bible

Do you want to be a power in the world Then be yourself.

Ralph Waldo Trine

They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.

Sir Thomas More, Utopia

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

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

Pablo Picasso

You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.

Charles Austin Beard, historian

Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth.

Edgar Watson Howe

There has already been published by the bucketfuls such brazen lies and utter fictions about me that I would long since have gone to my grave if I had let myself pay attention to that.

Albert Einstein

Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain it only means that he is hopelessly self - Absorbed.

Leo C. Rosten

When you cannot get a compliment any other way pay yourself one.

Mark Twain

By constant self - Discipline and self - Control you can develop greatness of characte.

Grenville Kleise

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Edgar Allan Poe, Berenice

For myself I am an optimist - It does not seem to be much use being anything else.

Sir Winston Churchill

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the governing of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address

A human being is an animal suspended in webs of significance which he himself has spun.

Clifford Geertz, "Cultural Anthropology" by Nanda

Do not wrong or hate your neighbor, for it is not he that you wrong: You wrong yourself.

Shawnee Indian Chant

The only gift is a portion of thyself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life, it is life itself.

Henry Havelock Ellis

Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.

Cicero

People who imagine themselves to be self - Made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail.

Richard Russo

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare, "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 2 scene 1

He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.

M. C. Esche

When solving a panic you must first ask yourself what you were doing that could possibly frighten an operating system.

Peter van der Linden