Self Quotes

Each painting has its own way of evolving... When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

William Baziotes

What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

Confucius

I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.

Carl Jung

Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light.

Baltasar Gracian

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

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

That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.

Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus

I wish everybody would have to have an electric thing implanted in our heads that gave us a shock whenever we did something to disobey the president. Then somehow I get myself elected president.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Better keep yourself clean and bright you are the window through which you must see the world.

George Bernard Shaw

The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you can make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost....

Richard Bach

Make yourself familiar with the angels, and behold them frequently in spirit for without being seen, they are present with you.

Saint Francis de Sales

Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.

Rita Mae Brown

The real tradegy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort - He never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.

Arnold Bennett

Gradualness, gradualness, and gradualness. From the very beginning of your work, school yourself to severe gradualness in the accumulation of knowledge.

Ivon Petrovich Pavlov

Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.

Silius Italicus

I was never less alone than while by myself.

Edward Lawrence Gibson

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Forgive many things in others nothing in yourself.

Ausonius

Happy is he who can give himself up.

Naguib Mahfouz

Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Michel de Montaigne

Any effort that has self - Glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.

Robert M. Pirsig

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

Albert Einstein

The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it.

Mack R. Douglas

A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self - Control is the rule.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good do good. Be kind be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.

Swami Sivanada

How anybody dresses is indicative of his self - Concept. If students are dirty and ragged, it indicates they are not interested in tidying up their intellects either.

S Hayakawa

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell.

Edna St. Vincent Millay, Letters, 1952

He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.

William Shakespeare

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly... spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.

Susan Taylo

A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs.

William R Allen

Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being.

Blaise Pascal, Pensees(II, 72)

This is the true joy in life - - Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one...

George Bernard Shaw

There is nothing remarkable about it, all one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.

J. S. Bach

Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.

Lou Dorfsman

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do, Ohara Publications