Self Quotes

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Maitri Upanishads

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.

Lucille Ball

Formal education will earn you a living, self - Education make you a fortune.

Unknown

He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.

Hesiod

I look at my myself and see a stone, I look at my friends and see gold, But I look at you, and see a gem.

Unknown

But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to few on this Earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to withstand. The brilliant Costaguanaro of the boulevards had died from solitude and want of faith in himself and others.

Joseph Conrad, Nostromo (on the death of Decoud)

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live.

Oscar Wilde

I am a poet. I lock myself in my room with a type writer so I can talk in terms of the world that has put me here.

Eric Pio

Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul.

Pythagorus

He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.

George Herbert

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make yourself a happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

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

I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cut - Throat, competitive world in which I spent my life.

Anthony Perkins

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect he becomes an adolescent the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult the day he forgives himself he becomes wise.

Alden Nowlan

Nothing feeds upon itself as liberality does.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince (1513)

Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.

Jimmy Carte

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

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

Simone de Beauvoi

Do you know what a pessimist is? A person who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself and hates them for it.

George Bernard Shaw

Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.

Ben Stein

He for himself weaves woe who weaves for others woe, and evil counsel on the counselor recoils.

Hesiod

No man ought to lay a cross upon himself, or to adopt tribulation, as is done in popedom but if a cross or tribulation come upon him, then let him suffer it patiently, and know that it is good and profitable for him.

Martin Luthe

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

Norman Vincent Peale

Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.

Sir Arthur Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World

Defining consultancy is a bit like defining the upper class every possible candidate draws the line just below himself.

John Peet

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills.

Kahlil Gibran

Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle is a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifests itself in the form of a feeling.

Nathaniel Brandon

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night

The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong - Doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.

Cicero

Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.

Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999

The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.

Hasidic Saying

Know thyself.

Thales, (The Seven Sages) from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

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

First make yourself unpopular, then people will take you seriously.

Konrad Adenauer, 1876 - 1967

He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying.

Michel de Montaigne

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others with out getting a few drops on yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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