Self Quotes

For the sake of peace one may lie, but peace itself should never be a lie.

The Talmud

To what purpose should I trouble myself in searching out the secrets of the stars, having death or slavery continually before my eyes?

Anaximenes

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Sigmund Freud

I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.

Kahlil Gibran, The Broken Wings

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

George Bernard Shaw

When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy.

Anon.

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.

Saint Teresa of Avila

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

Helen Kelle

He who is sorrowful can force himself to smile, but he who is glad cannot weep.

Selma Lagerloef

He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Hesiod

For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.

Charles de Gaulle

In jealousy there is more of self - Love, than of love to another.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, and receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.

Woody Allen

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Under peaceful conditions the militant man attacks himself.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

A bachelor is a selfish, undeserving guy who has cheated some woman out of a divorce.

Don Quinn

If a child lives with approval, he learns to live with himself.

Dorothy Law Nolte

When you meet the president, you ask yourself, How did it ever occur to anybody that he should be governor much less president.

Henry Kissinge

Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Eleanor Roosevelt

If I am not for myself, who is for me But if I am for my own self only, what am I, and if not now, when.

Rabbi Hillel

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.

Galileo Galilei

The most disturbing and wasteful emotions in modern life, next to fright, are those which are associated with the idea of blame, directed against the self or against others.

Marilyn Ferguson

You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself.

Harvey Firestone

The mirror never sees itself. The reflection never is itself.

J. Gregory Keyes, "Babylon 5: Dark Genesis: The Birth of the Psi Corps".

When God wants to speak and deal with us, he does not avail himself of an angel but of parents, or the pastor, or of our neighbor.

Martin Luthe

Do I contradict myself Very well then I contradict myself,

Walt Whitman

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

A man of understanding has lost nothing, if he has himself.

Michel de Montaigne

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw

First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that position, the next thing he should do is reach out his arms.

Kristin Hunter, O Magazine, November 2003

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

Lady Nancy Asto

True nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

Hindustani Prove

He who carries out one good deed acquires one advocate in his own behalf, and he who commits one transgression acquires one accuser against himself. Repentance and good works are like a shield against calamity.

The Talmud

Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.

Henry David Thoreau

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.

Baltasar Gracian