Self Quotes

Do I contradict myself Very well then I contradict myself,

Walt Whitman

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

When the reviews are bad, I tell myself that they can join me as I cry all the way to the bank.

Liberace

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life, it is life itself.

Henry Havelock Ellis

The world is full of fools and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking - Glass.

Nicolas Boileau

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self - Control. Against such things, there is no law.

The Apostle Paul (Saul of Tarsus), The Bible - Galations 5: 22 - 23 NIV

Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self - Praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.

Arnold Bennett

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Christine Bovee

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

Unknown

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

Henry Van Dyke

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

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold, "A Civil Campaign", 1999

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

Paul Valery

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 true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self - Distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use.

Peter Mere Latham

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

Plutarch

If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.

Anonymous

Sometimes when I look at my children I say to myself, Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.

Lillian Carter, mother of Jimmy and Billy

Under peaceful conditions the militant man attacks himself.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there.

Fred Allen

He wrapped himself in quotations - As a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

Rudyard Kipling

I have found it difficult to endear myself to those who could best positively affect the quality of my life.

Eli Khamarov

Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.

Kyle Chandle

I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - If I can remember any of the damn things.

Dorothy Parke

Learning makes a man fit company for himself.

Thomas Fulle

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

Carl Jung

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

If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity marry, and perpetuate his kind.

Don Marquis

History repeats itself and history never repeats itself are about equally trueWe never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.

George Macaulay Trevelyan

The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self - Activity.

Thomas Carlyle

When marrying, ask yourself this question Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age Everything else in marriage is transitory.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

Judy Garland

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

Augusten Burroughs, Magical Thinking

The root of fear is the death of yourself or someone you care about, but this will inevitably happen since we are only mortal, so why fea.

Unknown

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.

John Updike

There is always someone worse off than yourself.

Aesop