Self Quotes
No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of ther beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems.Anne Rice, "Blood and Gold".
The only gift is a portion of thyself.Ralph Waldo Emerson
You try to give away what you want yourself.Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.Jose Ortega y Gasset
A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.Voltaire
The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing and from robbing he comes next to drinking and sabbath - Breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.Thamas De Quincey
Do not measure your loss by itself if you do, it will seem intolerable but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.Saint Basil
I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.Oscar Levant
Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, And know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, No coincidences, All events are blessings given to us to learn from.Elizabeth Kubler - Ross
Self - Respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.John Herschel
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
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live.Oscar Wilde
An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself.Albert Camus
Life is not meaningful to us unless serving an end beyond itself, unless it is of value to someone else.Abraham J. Herschel
Formal education will earn you a living, self - Education make you a fortune.Unknown
A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service.Georges Pomidou
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.Pope John XXIII
Forgive many things in others nothing in yourself.Ausonius
Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself.Frank Crane
Ahhh. A man with a sharp wit. Someone ought to take it away from him before he cuts himself.Peter da Silva
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore and diverting himself and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary while the greater ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.Ashley Montagu
Self - Pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.Helen Kelle
When the reviews are bad, I tell myself that they can join me as I cry all the way to the bank.Liberace
Self - Conceit may lead to self - Destruction.Aesop, The Frog and the Ox
An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.Samuel Smiles
There is nothing like returing to a place that remains uncganged to find how you yourself have altered.Nelson Mandela
It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to be kind to another, without helping himself.Bailey
No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.Greville
If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be.... Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.Wilfred Peterson, This Week (Oct. 1, 1961)
Lord Ronald said nothing he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.Stephen Leacock
Any ordinary man can... surround himself with two thousand books... and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.Augustine Birrell
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.George Bernard Shaw
Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.Alexis Carrel
No man is happy who does not think himself so.Publilius Syrus
The whole object of comedy is to be yourself and the closer you get to that, the funnier you will be.Jerry Seinfeld
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes. It may even lie on the surface; but we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions? especially selfish ones.Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Peace and Violence, sct. 2, in Index, no. 4 (London, 1973.
