Self Quotes

We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - Your ideal of what you long to attain - The ideal of health, efficiency, success.

Orison Swett Marden

Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self confidence young. Keep your hope young.

Luella F. Phean

The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.

Sonya Friedman

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman, in New York Times

I bet the sparrow looks at the parrot and thinks, yes, you can talk, but LISTEN TO YOURSELF.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.

Samuel Johnson

Experience is an asset of which no worker can be cheated, no matter how selfish or greedy his immediate employer may be.

Napolean Hill

I have lost the half of myself? a soul for which mine was made.

Voltaire

When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.

Edith Hamilton

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

They say that time changes things, but actually you have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself. My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

A man who works beyond the surface of things, though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way for others and may make even his errors subservient to the cause of truth.

Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry Into The Sublime and Beautiful

Real love is a permanently self - Enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck, O Magazine, February 2004

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

Albert Einstein

Death in itself is nothing but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where.

John Dryden

No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

Seneca

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.

Thomas a Kempis

Get into the habit of asking yourself if what you are doing can be handled by someone else.

Author Unknown

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he who thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

C. C. Colton

If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self - Direction, and for self - Initiated learning.

Carl R. Rogers

If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me - Nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - But I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.

John Keats, Letter to Fanny Brawne, Feb 1820 - Died 1 year late

Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.

Ben Stein

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

Amelia Earhart

Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self - Inflicted fate.

Albert Einstein

My business is not to remake myself, But make the absolute best of what God made.

Robert Browning

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim.

Graham Greene, Heart of the Matter (1948)

Mortification from a self - Strength, carried on by ways of self - Invention, unto the end of a self - Righteousness, is the soul and substnace of all false religion in the world.

John Owen

I live in the crowds of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.

Samuel Johnson

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

I count him braver who conquers his desires than him who conquers his enemies for the hardest victort is the victory over self.

Aristotle

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

Sir Winston Churchill

I demand more of myself than anyone else could ever expect.

Julius Irving

The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great man were made by his fortune, his enemies by himself, and revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude.

C. C. Colton

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene 3

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