Self Quotes

I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

Groucho Marx

But words came halting forth, wanting Inventions stayInvention, Natures child, fled step - Dame Studys blows... Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite, Fool, said my Muse to me look in thy heart and write.

Sir Philip Sidney

No one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Charles Dudley Warne

Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.

Johann Georg von Zimmermann

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

George Sand

If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse - As a man shoots himself.

H. L. Mencken

The self - Controlled soul, who moves amongst sense objects, free from either attachment or repulsion, he wins eternal Peace.

Bhagavad Gita

The greatest productive force is human selfishness.

Robert A. Heinlein

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self - Same well from which your laughter rises was often - Times filled with your tears.

Rene Descartes

When the opponent expand, I contract, When he contracts, I expand, And when there is an opportunity, I do not hit - - It hits all by itself.

Bruce Lee

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

Anna Freud

The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

John Ciardi

Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous. But to an even greater degree than the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of carelessness, incapacity, or neglect.

Anonymous

Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled to concentrate to accept conflict and tension to be born everyday to feel a sense of self.

Erich Fromm

One must really have suffered oneself to help others.

Mother Theresa

Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure.

Joseph Sugarman

Promote yourself, but do not demote another.

Israel Salante

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

Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.

Joel Hawes

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

God conceals himself from the mind of man, but reveals himself to his heart.

African Prove

I have found it difficult to endear myself to those who could best positively affect the quality of my life.

Eli Khamarov

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene 3

We hold these truths to be self - Evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments a.

Thomas Jefferson

You try to give away what you want yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. you yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

Buddha

Enjoy things which are pleasant that is not the evil it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.

Thomas Carlyle

Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide he exposes himself.

Jeanne Moreau

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.

Thomas Jefferson

The worst of all deceptions is self - Deception.

Saul Bellow

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

Henry David Thoreau

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.

Chinese Prove

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell, September 28, 1958

None of you truly believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.

Muhammad

Self - Reverence, self knowledge, self - Control. These three alone lead life to sovereign power.

Lord Tennyson

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

Lao Tzu