Self Quotes
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.Aaron Copland
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.Thomas Carruthers
Rather do what is nothing in the purpose than to be idle, that the devil may find thee doing. The bird that sits is easily shot when the fliers escape the fowler. Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all the virtues, and is the self - Made sepulcher of a living man.Francis Quarles
Keep thy religion to thyself.George Carlin
Fear is a question What are you afraid of, and why Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self - Knowledge if you explore them.Marilyn Ferguson
When an American says that he loves his country, he... means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self - Respect.Adlai Ewing Stevenson
Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to knowledge, has proved potentially dangerous, because it has not been accompanied by equal gains in self - Understanding and self - Discipline.Lewis Mumford
Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.Evelyn Underhill
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man - Given. Be grateful. Conceit is self - Given. Be careful.John Wooden
Many politicians lay it down as a self - Evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.Lord Macaulay
Self - Love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing people a favor, and vise versa.Dr. Karl A. Menninge
The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.Friedrich Nietzsche
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, Discourses
Think to yourself that every day is your last the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.Horace
The self - Controlled soul, who moves amongst sense objects, free from either attachment or repulsion, he wins eternal Peace.Bhagavad Gita
When you cannot get a compliment any other way pay yourself one.Mark Twain
Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.Sir Walter Raleigh
The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear minded and self - Controlled so that you can pray. Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.1 Peter 47 - 8 Bible
The sage wears clothes of coarse cloth but carries jewels in his bosom He knows himself but does not display himself He loves himself but does not hold himself in high esteem.Lao Tzu
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.Johann von Goethe
He who ignores discipline despises himself, but whoever heeds correction gains understanding.Proverbs 1532 Bible
The way to final freedom is within thy self.The Book of the Golden Precepts
Preparation is not the enemy of success, but a dear friend. Be good to yourself and the favor will return.Samuel Cunningham
Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.Igor Stravinski
I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.Joseph Baretti
Self - Pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.John W. Gardne
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.H. L. Mencken
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
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
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, although it is apt to fill a man with wind and self - Righteousness.Sir Robert Hutchison
That you may retain your self - Respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.William J. H. Boetcke
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, The Prince
He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying.Michel de Montaigne
Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou are not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will.Thomas a Kempis
The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.Sonya Friedman
He had a heart that could have held the empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar.Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera
Many a man is praised for his reserve and so - Called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.J. B. Priestley
