Self Quotes
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.Woodrow Wilson
There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.Proverbs 137 Bible
I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world.Russell Bake
I do not think myself to be a worm, and a grub, grass of the field fit only to be burned, a clod, a morsel of putrid atoms that should be thrown to the dungheap, ready for the nethermost pit. Nor if I did should I therefore expect to sit with Angels and Archangels.Anthony Trollope
A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction.Leo Tolstoy
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.Lady Nancy Asto
A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.Peter McArthu
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 von Goethe
When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.Oscar Wilde, Jack from The Importance of Being Earnest
The self is not something ready - Made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.John Dewey
Unless you are prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.Orison Swett Marden
Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.Saint Augustine
Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.Francis Quarles
The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself.Noam Chomsky, Ruth Anshen, Biography of an Idea (Mt. Kisco, NY: Moyer Bell Limited, 1986), pg. 196
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
A friend is a present you give yourself.Robert Louis Stevenson
If you turn your back on these people, you yourself are an animal. You may be a well - Dressed animal, but you are nevertheless an animal.Edward Irving Koch
It is regrettable that, among the Rights of Man, the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten.Charles Baudelaire
A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.Seneca
He wrapped himself in quotations - As a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.Rudyard Kipling
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.Joaquin Setanti
Never expose yourself unnecessarily to danger; a miracle may not save you... and if it does, it will be deducted from your share of luck or merit.The Talmud
The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.John W. Gardne
A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.Henry Ward Beeche
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.George Bernard Shaw
The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.Sonya Friedman
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
To be nobody - But - Yourself - - In a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - - Means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.E e cummings
First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ, 1420
A threat is basically a means for establishing a bargaining position by inducing fear in the subject. When a threat is used, it should always be implied that the subject himself is to blame by using words such as You leave me no other choice but to...CIA Manual
I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.Joseph Brodsky
You give little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.Kahlil Gibran
Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.Theodore Isaac Rubin
As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found - - In himself.Erich Frohm
Practice yourself what you preach.Titus Maccius Plautus, Asinaria
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.Jacopo Sannazaro
The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.Oscar Wilde
