Self Quotes

Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
Quintilian
Lyndon b. johnson - what we won when all of our people united... must...
Erich frohm - as long as anyone believes that his ideal and...
Dare to be yourself.
Andre Gide
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
Bertolt Brecht
Washington is like a self - Sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.
Dean Acheson (1893 - 1971)
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - The world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
Henry Mille
I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human with the soul of a clown, which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.
Jim Morrison
Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up.
Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, February 2003
The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self - Serving wealth.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
He is not laughed at who laughs at himself first.
Thomas Fulle
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
Abraham Lincoln
Mark twain - it is noble to teach oneself, it is still nobler...
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
David Mamet
Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.
Adele Brookman
Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self - Confidence and your self - Doubt.
Kahlil Gibran
Without absolutes revealed from without by God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas about manners, justice and right and wrong, issuing from a multitude of self - Opinionated thinkers.
John Owen
The soul who meditates on the Self is content to serve the Self and rests satisfied within the Self there remains nothing more for him to accomplish.
Bhagavad Gita
Experience is an asset of which no worker can be cheated, no matter how selfish or greedy his immediate employer may be.
Napolean Hill
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
Henry Ward Beeche
Each bird loves to hear himself sing.
Arapaho Prove
Friendship without self - Interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
James F. Byrnes
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
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
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
Conquering others takes force, conquering yourself is true strength.
Lao - Tzu
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
Many a man is praised for his reserve and so - Called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.
J. B. Priestley
Modesty and unselfishness - - These are the virtues which men praise - - And pass by.
Andr Maurois
I have no help to send, therefore I must go myself.
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
Respect yourself most of all.
Pythagorus
Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for beingWhy thou wert there, O rival of the roseI never sought to ask, I never knewBut, in my simple ignorance supposeThe selfsame power that brought me there brought you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.
Roland Barthes, Esprit
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
Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence. It also allows one to risk that marriage.
Gloria Steinem
Watch for good times to retreat into yourself. Frequently meditate on how good God is to you.
Thomas a Kempis, quoted in the LDS Church News 8/20/2005
Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
J. K. Rowling
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
Pascal keeps your hand tied. C gives you enough rope to hang yourself.
Anon.