Self Quotes
Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely for science is but one.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
People who are tremendously concerned about their identification, their individuality, their self - Expression, or their sense of humor, always seem to be missing the very things they pursue.Walter Lippmann
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.Reggie Leach
Self - Sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.George Bernard Shaw
Never expose yourself unnecessarily to danger; a miracle may not save you... and if it does, it will be deducted from your share of luck or merit.The Talmud
Even pleasure itself is a toil.Manilius
Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside yourself.Jacob Bigelow
Nothing feeds upon itself as liberality does.Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince (1513)
To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love in order that I may be loved back again, but for the creative joy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at least a little, by the outgoing of love, from enslavement to that most intolerable of master, myself.Bernard Iddings Bell
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self - Gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.Helen Kelle
This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.Voltaire
Look at the bow in the cloud, in the very rain itself. That is a sign that the sun, though you cannot see it, is shining still - - That up above beyond the cloud is still sunlight and warmth and cloudless blue sky.Charles Kingsley
It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.Eleanor Roosevelt
Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.Tom Hopkins
Experience shows that success is due less to ability that to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.Charles Buxton
He who fights monsters should look into it that he himself does not become a monster. When you gaze long into the Abyss, the Abyss also gazes into you.Friedrich Neitzsche
It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.Mary Daly
God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.Albert Einstein
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight and never stop fighting.E e cummings
If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity marry, and perpetuate his kind.Don Marquis
He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.Lord Herbert
That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust.Gustave Flaubert, 1, 911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said
The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.C. S. Lewis
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self - Interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self - Love, and never talk to them of our own neccessities but of their advantages.Adam Smith
If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished. Proposal to reform welfare programs.Richard Milhous Nixon
Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? - A hoax fabricated by poets for their self - Importance.Jean Anouilh
Do not try to fight a lion if you are not one yourself.African Prove
Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.Annie Lennox
By constant self - Discipline and self - Control you can develop greatness of characte.Grenville Kleise
Pascal keeps your hand tied. C gives you enough rope to hang yourself.Anon.
A patient man is one who can put up with himself.Author Unknown
What ought a man to be Well, my short answer is himself.Henrik Ibsen
Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and archive mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement, against that past.George Steine
The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.Sonya Friedman
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.Brenda Ueland
Experience does not ever err. It is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your experiments.Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks
Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you - - Out of love - - Takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice.Dag Hammarskjld
