Self Quotes
To handle yourself, use your head To handle others, use your heart.Roosevelt, Eleano
Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.Robert Bolt
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
Your purpose in relationships is simply to be your best self, regardless of the circumstances.Rosalene Glickman, Ph. D., Optimal Thinking: How to Be Your Best Self
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.Paul Valery
The giving of love is an education in itself.Roosevelt, Eleano
The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.W. S. Maugham, Of Human Bondage
Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.Pearl S. Buck
People who are tremendously concerned about their identification, their individuality, their self - Expression, or their sense of humor, always seem to be missing the very things they pursue.Walter Lippmann
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 Wolfgang von Goethe
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
There is no limit to stupidity. Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity.Gene Wolfe
Whoever despises himself still respects himself as one who despises.Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil aphorism 78
The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.Blaine Lee
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.Marcus Aurelius
Fear is nothing except a drain of energy and Not a power unto itself. Trust in yourself, For therein lies the true power.Unknown
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.Alexander Hamilton
If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built - In mental disorder which drives him towards self - Destruction.Arthur Koestle
I believe this nation should commit itself, to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.John F. Kennedy, in a speech on May 25, 1961
What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.Roland Barthes, Esprit
Live each season as it passes breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.Henry David Thoreau
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.Welsh Prove
But I have always liked bird dogs better than kennel - Fed dogs myself - - You know, one that will get out and hunt for food rather than sit on his fanny and yell.Charles E. Wilson
It is the highest form of self - Respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.Dr. Dale E. Turne
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but that mark of a fake messiah.Richard Bach
However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.Henry David Thoreau
Egotist a person more interested in himself than in me.Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.Alec Waugh
Toleration is the greatest gift of mind, it requires that same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.Hellen Kelle
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.Marcus Garvey
It is impossible to go through life without trust That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.Graham Greene
No man resolved to make the most of himself has time to waste on personal contention.Abraham Lincoln
Your central self is totally untouched By grief, confusion, desperation.Vernon Howard
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?Jane Austen
Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors, concern for the great unsolved problems of the organization of labor and the distribution of goods - - In order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.Albert Einstein
If the programmer can simulate a construct faster then the compiler can implement the construct itself, then the compiler writer has blown it badly.Guy L. Steele Jr., Tartan Laboratories
