Self Quotes

Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

To establish oneself in the world, one has to do all one can to appear established.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.

Elie Wiesel, Chicago Sun - Times, November 5, 2001

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

Heraclitus

God conceals himself from the mind of man, but reveals himself to his heart.

African Prove

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

Albert Einstein

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

Gustave Flaubert

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

Confucious

Conventionality is not morality. Self - Righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

Charlotte Bronte

In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark.

Nicholson Bake

The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of benevolence and love to men.

John Randolph

The people that one bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - Bread and circuses.

Juvenal

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Malice sucks up the greater part of her own venom, and poisons herself.

Michel de Montaigne

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Buddha

The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.

Alvin Toffle

But he that is the greatest among you shall be your servant. And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abused and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.

Matthew 2311, 12 Bible

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

Brenda Ueland

I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.

Mohandas Ghandi

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self - Gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Helen Kelle

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self - Discipline with all of them came first.

Harry S Truman

What a searching preacher of self - Command is the varying phenomenon of health.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself.

Unknown

The sad news is, nobody owes you a career. Your career is literally your business. You own it as a sole proprietor. You have one employee: yourself. You need to accept ownership of your career, your skills and the timing of your moves.

Andrew Grove, Co - Founder and Chairman of Intel Corporation, Only the Paranoid Survive

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Johann von Goethe

Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and archive mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement, against that past.

George Steine

Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.

Johann Georg von Zimmermann

I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

Walt Whitman, Song of Myself, 1855

Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain it only means that he is hopelessly self - Absorbed.

Leo C. Rosten

If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself.

Joseph Farrell

Psychoanalysis is that mental illnes for which it regards itself a therapy.

Karl Kraus

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists".

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

The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.

Garth Brooks, Country Music

Always be a first - Rate version of yourself, instead of a second - Rate version of somebody else.

Judy Garland

Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

You cannot teach a man anything. you can only help him to find it for himself.

Galileo Galilei