Self Quotes
The world itself is the will to power - And nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - And nothing else!Friedrich Nietzsche, "The Will to Power".
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.Thomas Jefferson
Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.Oprah Winfrey
Toleration is the greatest gift of mind, it requires that same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.Hellen Kelle
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
A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense.American Prove
Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell.John Milton, Paradise Lost
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.Scott Adams
The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.Oscar Wilde
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight, very clean. When it arrives it is perfect. It puts itself in our hands. It hopes we learned something from yesterday.Unknown, Epitaph on headstone of actor John Wayne (author unknown)
Human nature is not of itself vicious.Thomas Paine
Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.John Lancaster Spalding
Before a man can wake up and find himself famous he has to wake up and find himself.Author Unknown
If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself.John Milton
When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer - Say traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep - It is on such occasions that my ideas flow best, and most abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not, nor can I force them...Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Self - Esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.Nathaniel Branden
Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.William S. Burroughs
Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences of life.Gottfried Reinhardt
Self - Help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself.Morarji Ranchhodji Desai
Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.Andre Gide
History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.Kahlil Gibran
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.Rainer Maria Rilke
Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.Michael Masser and Linda Creed
Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.Henry James
No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it... To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.Thomas Jefferson
Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.James A. Garfield
The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.Robert Ingersoll
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
I still have a lot to learn - About the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting.Britney Spears
If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you started.Marcus Garvey
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia
He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.Aldous Huxley
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists".
There is an atmosphere of well - Sounding oratory that likes to attach itself to dress clothes. Away with it.Albert Einstein
There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.Proverbs 137 Bible
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
