Self Quotes
Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.Mencius, Works
He alone is wise who can accommodate himself to all contingencies of life; but the fool contends, and struggling, like a swimmer, against the stream.Latin
Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 3
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.Mark Twain
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Boldness in itself is genius.L. Ron Hubbard
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.Joaquin Setanti
No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.Greville
You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it. Better keep yourself clean and bright you are the window through which you must see the world.Sir Walter Besant
I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.Walt Whitman
Do not wrong or hate your neighbor, for it is not he that you wrong: You wrong yourself.Shawnee Indian Chant
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.Jim Morrison
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.Dag Hammarskjld
We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.Jane Austen
The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.James Arthur Baldwin
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.Nathaniel Hawthorne
The tragic mistake of so many in the environmentalist movement is the belief that the rest of the world can afford to hold itself to our expensive green standards.Jonathan Berry
Experience does not ever err. It is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your experiments.Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks
No man is wise enough by himself.Titus Maccius Plautus, Miles Gloriosus
Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.Stephen Leacock, "Nonsense Novels", 1911
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery; none but ourselves can free our minds.Bob Marley
Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - And thus make yourself indispensable.Andre Gide
I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time...Charles Dickens
What is the first business of one who practices philosophy To get rid of self - Conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.Epictetus
Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.Nancy Kerrigan
This coffee plunges into the stomach... the mind is aroused, and ideas pour forth like the battalions of the Grand Army on the field of battle.... Memories charge at full gallop... the light cavalry of comparisons deploys itself magnificently; the artillery of logic hurry in with their train of ammunition; flashes of wit pop up like sharp - Shooters.Honore de Balzac
The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.... God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.Pierre Charron
Self - Trust, we know, is the first secret of success.Lady Wilde
Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid.William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.John Milton
Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.Josiah Royce
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
Self - Trust is the essence of heroism.Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist, section 2
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.Ben Franklin
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full - On metamorphosis.Martha Beck, O Magazine, Growing Wings, January 2004
