Self Quotes
How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.Publilius Syrus
We hold these truths to be self - Evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments a.Thomas Jefferson
N. B. Fear itself. See also H. D. Thoreau.Franklin D. Roosevelt
We never get to love by hate, least of all by self - Hatred.Basil W. Maturin
The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.Pauline Kael
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight, very clean. When it arrives it is perfect. It puts itself in our hands. It hopes we learned something from yesterday.Unknown, Epitaph on headstone of actor John Wayne (author unknown)
Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.Ausonius
To be nobody - But - Yourself - - In a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - - Means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.E e cummings
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
When the opponent expand, I contract, When he contracts, I expand, And when there is an opportunity, I do not hit - - It hits all by itself.Bruce Lee
America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.George Herbert Walker Bush
An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.Maurice Masterlinck
Egotist a person more interested in himself than in me.Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.Saint Teresa of Avila
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
The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.C. S. Lewis
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.Samuel Johnson
To conquer others is to have power, to conquer yourself is to know the way.Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives. Do good anyway.Mother Theresa
A woman of honor should not expect of others things she would not do herself.Marguerite de Valois
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man - Given. Be grateful. Conceit is self - Given. Be careful.John Wooden
A competent and self - Confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.Robert Anson Heinlein
Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.Harry Emerson Fosdick
If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.Alexandre Dumas, fils
This report, by its very length, defends itself against being read.Winston Churchill
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 von Goethe
A crisis does not always appear to a policymaker as a series of dramatic events. Usually it imposes itself as an exhausting agenda of petty chores demanding both concentration and endurance.Henry Kissinger, Years of Upheaval
I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.Walt Whitman
Insist on yourself never imitate... Every great man is unique.Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hate mankind, for I think of myself as one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.Samuel Johnson
Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.Sir Arthur Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World
Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.Judy Garland, to her daughter, Liza Minelli
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.Leszezynski Stanislaus
Graham See what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles Or do you believe that people just get lucky Or, look at the question this way Is it possible that there are no coincidences.Signs
Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.John W. Gardne
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
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.Joseph Campbell
