Self Quotes
Do not wrong or hate your neighbor, for it is not he that you wrong: You wrong yourself.Shawnee Indian Chant
A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only he himself can damage that. His reputations what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity.John Ballantine Gough
Each painting has its own way of evolving... When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.William Baziotes
You want to raise your child in such a way that you don? t have to control him, so that he will be in full possession of himself at all times. Upon that depends his good behavior, his health, his sanity.L. Ron Hubbard, Book: Child Dianetics
Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.John Lancaster Spalding
Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed: for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess.Rene Descartes, Discourse on Method
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.Benjamin Franklin
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.Albert Camus
Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.William Shakespeare, "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 2 scene 1
Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to J. M. Cutts, October 26, 1863
No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulities or you alter yourself to meet them.Phyllis Battone
I shall despair. There is no creature loves me; And if I die no soul will pity me: And wherefore should they, since that I myself Find in myself no pity to myself?William Shakespeare, Richard III, V. iii
A man without justice is a beast, and a man who would make himself a beast forgets the pain of being a man.Timothy Leary
Look well into thyself there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.Robert Anson Heinlein
The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self - Seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
As an athlete, when you least expect it, you may find yourself standing on the threshold of an accomplishment so monumental that it strikes fear into your soul. You must stand ready, at any moment, to face the unknown. You must be ready to walk boldly thru the wall of uncertainty.John "The Penguin" Bingham, The courage to start
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Fortunately, psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself remains a very effective therapist.Karen Horney
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke and that the joke is oneself.Clifton Paul Fadiman
Modesty and unselfishness - - These are the virtues which men praise - - And pass by.Andr Maurois
If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you started.Marcus Garvey
Think highly of yourself, for the world takes you at your own estimate.Author Unknown
You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.John Ruskin
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.Agnes Repplie
Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life, it is life itself.Henry Havelock Ellis
To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.Hermann Hesse
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.Francis Maitland Balfou
Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity.Charles Caleb Colton
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
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself and can never be erased.Alexander Hamilton
There are three classes of intellects one which comprehends by itself another which appreciates what others comprehend and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others the first is the most excellent, the second is good, and the third is useless.Niccolo Machiavelli
No book has yet been written in praise of a woman who let her husband and children starve or suffer while she invented even the most useful things, or wrote books, or expressed herself in art, or evolved philosophic systems.Anna Garlin Spence
Building castles in the air, and making yourself a laughing - Stock.Miguel de Cervantes
Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.George Orwell
Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.John Sturart Mill, Defence of Hedonism
