Self Quotes
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.Foster C. McClellan
He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires and fears is more than a King.John Milton
Man is always more than he can know of himself consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.Golo Mann
Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.Judy Garland, to her daughter, Liza Minelli
Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.Sir Arthur Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World
He who falls in love with himself, will have no rivals.Ben Franklin
To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.Simone Weil
To linger in the observation of things other than the self implies a profound conviction of their worth.Charles - Damian Boulogne
The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.Shirley MacLaine
He is a self - Made man, very much in love with his creator.Benjamin Disraeli
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering you own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - Every day begin the task anew.Saint Francis de Sales
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.Cyril Connolly
Man is immortal therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea it can only find itself in changing forms.Rabindranath Tagore
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - And you are the easiest person to fool.Richard Feynman, Caltech commencement address, 1974
Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
You never find yourself until you face the truth.Pearl Bailey
Do whatever comes your way as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people and other things that are interesting. Put a good deal of thought into happiness that you are able to give.Roosevelt, Eleano
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.Samuel Butle
It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.Graham Greene, The Ministry of Fea
In jealousy there is more of self - Love, than of love to another.Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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
This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.Voltaire
Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid.William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.Carl Jung
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.Mark Twain
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.Richard Bach
The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - - Making it possible to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.Susan Sontag
Who has confidence in himself will gain the confidene of others.Leib Lazarow
The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong - Doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.Cicero
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.Calvin Coolidge
Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.Henry David Thoreau
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.Henry David Thoreau
There are two ways of meeting difficulties You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.Phyllis Bottome
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.Kahlil Gibran
Better keep yourself clean and bright you are the window through which you must see the world.George Bernard Shaw
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.Eleanor Roosevelt
As I see it, every day you do one of two things build health or produce disease in yourself.Adelle Davis
