Self Quotes

The true fanatic is a theocrat, someone who sees himself as acting on behalf of some super personal force the Race, the Party, History, the proletariat, the Poor, and so on. These absolve him from evil, hence he may safely do anything in their service.

Lord Billingsley

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

Jessamyn West

I have impeached myself by resigning.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self - Confidence and your self - Doubt.

Kahlil Gibran

If you seek yourself,... you rob the lens of its transparency.... You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means.

Dag Hammarskjld

To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

Confucius, Analects, XV. 24

Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self - Love.

Francois de Fenelon

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

We never get to love by hate, least of all by self - Hatred.

Basil W. Maturin

When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.

Confucious

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

It is impossible to better yourself if you do not know what it means to be better.

Unknown

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.

Auguste Rodin

To be proud of virtue is to poison oneself with the antidote.

Benjamin Franklin, ?

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

Cyril Connolly

Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night

Of all the communities available to us there is not one I would want to devote myself to, except for the society of the true searchers, which has very few living members at any time.

Albert Einstein

Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - They bear no fruit.

Francis Marion

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

Lord Ronald said nothing he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.

Stephen Leacock

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

Education is life itself.

John Dewey

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something.

Henry David Thoreau

Are you bored with life Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Dale Carnegie

Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.

Igor Stravinski

Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood.

Louise Beal

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

Washington Irving

Money is human happiness in the abstract he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

Arthur Schopenhaue

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

Elisabeth Kuebler - Ross

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.

James Stephens

Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers Love, nightmare - Like, lies heavy on my chest, And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers.

William S. Gilbert

He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.

Raymond Hull

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

It really doesnt matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.

Real Live Preache

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

Johnson

The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of an endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.

Robyn Davidson