Self Quotes

It is by no means self - Evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.

Thomas Elliot

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.

Kahlil Gibran

You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you - - The rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered.

Antoine de Saint - Exupery, The Little Prince

Eliminating what is not wanted or needed is profitable in itself.

Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia

I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Economy.

To what purpose should I trouble myself in searching out the secrets of the stars, having death or slavery continually before my eyes?

Anaximenes

Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self - Governing people.

Woodrow Wilson

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.

Sophia Loren

The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.

Publilius Syrus

Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.

Horace, Epistles

I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me instead of looking within myself to see what was there.

Belle Livingstone

So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 4 scene 5

Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.

Baltasar Gracian

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Albert Einstein

Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.

Alfred North Whitehead

Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.

John Sturart Mill, Defence of Hedonism

First make yourself unpopular, then people will take you seriously.

Konrad Adenauer, 1876 - 1967

Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.

John Stuart Mill

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.

John Milton

Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.

Thomas H. Huxley

No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.

Lucille Ball

No good poem, however confessional is may be, is just a self - Expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?

Robert Cecil Day Lewis

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands upon himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle is a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifests itself in the form of a feeling.

Nathaniel Brandon

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self - Evident.

Arthur Schopenhaue

Do you want to be a power in the world Then be yourself.

Ralph Waldo Trine

A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.

George Bernard Shaw

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A bird will fall frozen dead from the bow of a ship without ever having felt sorry for itself.

D. H. Lawerence

He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires and fears is more than a King.

John Milton