Self Quotes

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.

George Sarton, History of Science

Fear is nothing except a drain of energy and Not a power unto itself. Trust in yourself, For therein lies the true power.

Unknown

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.

Dr. Seuss

Most maxim - Mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.

Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self - Praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.

Arnold Bennett

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

Ben Franklin

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

Baltasar Gracian

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

Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.

Buddha

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

Cicero

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

Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

Mark Twain

Human nature is not of itself vicious.

Thomas Paine

A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.

Jeanne - Marie Roland

Sometimes you have to play for a long time to be able to play like yourself.

Miles Davis

He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The honey from the flowers of the senses, Ever present within, ruler of time, Goes beyond fear. For this Self is Supreme.

Maitri Upanishads

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

G. C. Lichtenberg

Who has confidence in himself will gain the confidene of others.

Leib Lazarow

When you start to doubt yourself, the real world will eat you alive.

Henry Rollins, From his song "Shine".

The wise should surrender speech in mind, mind in the knowing self, the knowing self in the Spirit of the universe, and the Spirit of the universe in the Spirit of peace.

Maitri Upanishads

There is nothing to fear but fear itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self - Love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self - Absorption.

Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.

Leszezynski Stanislaus

I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.

Johann Kaspar Lavate

Above all things, reverence yourself.

Pythagoras

It was when Lucifer first congratulated himself upon his angelic behavior that he became the tool of evil.

Dag Hammarskjld

Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.

Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

Niels Boh

Language exists only on the surface of our consciousness. The great human struggles are played out in silence and in the ability to express oneself.

Franz Xavier Kroetz

Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

As a matter of self - Preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

Diogenes

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw

However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

Henry David Thoreau