Self Quotes

This is the true joy in life - - Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one...
George Bernard Shaw
He wrapped himself in quotations - As a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
Rudyard Kipling
No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.
William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
Jim rohn - whoever renders service to many puts himself in...
The next thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sir winston churchill - the reserve of modern assertions is sometimes...
He is a self - Made man, very much in love with his creator.
Benjamin Disraeli
He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires and fears is more than a King.
John Milton
First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - Nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.
E. B. White
Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.
Baltasar Gracian
Love is our response to our highest values. Love is self - Enjoyment. The noblest love is born out of admiration of another? s values.
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self - Righteous isolation.
John Dewey
The salary of the chief executive of the large corporations is not an award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm gesture by the individual to himself.
John Kenneth Galbraith
I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me instead of looking within myself to see what was there.
Belle Livingstone
You give but little when you give of your posessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Kahlil Gibran, The Prohpet, 1923
If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.
D. L. Moody
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
Charles De Gaulle
Sir walter besant - if you must hold yourself up to your children,...
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
Thomas Szasz, "The Second Sin".
Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
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
Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.
Annie Lennox
It is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self - Consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since mathematics, in its own way, also performs this function, it is not only aesthetically charming but profoundly significant. It is an art, and a great art.
John W. N. Sullivan
The sad news is, nobody owes you a career. Your career is literally your business. You own it as a sole proprietor. You have one employee: yourself. You need to accept ownership of your career, your skills and the timing of your moves.
Andrew Grove, Co - Founder and Chairman of Intel Corporation, Only the Paranoid Survive
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. you yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.
Buddha
The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
Henry Mille
He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
Lao Tzu
To find yourself, think for yourself.
Socrates, The Apology
We hold these truths to be self - Evident that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
US Declaration of Independence
I have impeached myself by resigning.
Richard Milhous Nixon
Everyone needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life.
Julia T. Alvarez
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
Elisabeth Kubler - Ross
Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
George Orwell
The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - - Making it possible to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.
Susan Sontag
One of the self - Authenticating truths which we come at last to acknowledge is this strange fact that we know that for the evil in our lives we ourselves are responsible, but for the good God alone deserves the praise.
John L. Casteel
How can we expect another to keep our secret, if we cannot keep it ourself.
La Rochefoucauld
All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self - Evident.
Arthur Schopenhaue
There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.
La Bruyere