Self Quotes

Modesty and unselfishness - - These are the virtues which men praise - - And pass by.
Andr Maurois
La rochefoucauld - the surest way to be deceived is to think oneself...
Francis quarles - read not books alone, but men, and amongst them...
Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up.
Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, February 2003
The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.
Rita Mae Brown, Venus Envy
By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self - Denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?
Jackie Mason
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self - Seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Bible, 1 Corinthians 13: 4 - 7
Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously; and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.
Booth Tarkington
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin
He who falls in love with himself, will have no rivals.
Ben Franklin
Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens
Character develops itself in the stream of life.
Johann von Goethe
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
Niels Boh
Jean jacques rousseau - your first appearance, he said to me, is the...
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Epictetus
Man will do many things to get himself loved he will do all things to get himself envied.
Mark Twain
Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.
Thomas a Kempis
Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Formerly a public man needed a private secretary for a barrier between himself and the public. Nowadays he has a press secretary to keep him properly in the public eye.
Daniel J. Boorstin
To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself.
Henry Miller, The Colossus of Maroussi
Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.
Bernard M. Baruch
And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that of yourself which you yet know not of.
William Shakespeare
No one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Charles Dudley Warne
The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
Havelock Ellis, Impressions and Comments (1914)
Occasionally, I have to think like myself to remember where I put something.
Sue S. Taylo
Once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing and from robbing he comes next to drinking and sabbath - Breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.
Thamas De Quincey
When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.
Albert Einstein, The World as I See It.
Resolve to be thyself and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
Matthew Arnold
Malice sucks up the greater part of her own venom, and poisons herself.
Michel de Montaigne
When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy.
Anon.
More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy
She had learned the self - Deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and grasping, but her artifices could not always cover the nakedness of her need to excel.
Faith Sullivan, The Cape Ann, 1988
Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be a blessing or a heavy burden?
Alfred A. Montapert
Risk Risk anything Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
Katherine Mansfield
But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.
William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II Scene 6
He that thinks himself the wisest is generally the least so.
C. C. Colton
Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.
Cicero
In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self - Discipline with all of them came first.
Harry S Truman
History repeats itself historians repeat each other.
Philip Guedalla