Self Quotes

I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself. My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.

Robyn Davidson

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.

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) Valley of Fear, 1915

The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.

George Washington Allston

Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

Albert Camus

Insist on yourself never imitate... Every great man is unique.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress but I repeat myself.

Mark Twain

A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.

Henry Ward Beeche

Above all be true to yourself, and if you can not put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.

Hardy D. Jackson

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

Walt Whitman

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Mary Cholmondeley

To understand is to forgive, even oneself.

Alexander Chase

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - - And you are the easiest person to fool.

Richard Phillips Feynman

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

Benjamin Disraeli

Self - Respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.

John Herschel

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.

Marlene Dietrich

No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.

A. A. Milne

You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it. Better keep yourself clean and bright you are the window through which you must see the world.

Sir Walter Besant

What a man thinks of himself that is what determines, or rather indicates his fate.

Henry David Thoreau

First say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have to do.

Epictetus

Christmas gift suggestions To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect.

Oren Arnold

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

Froude

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.

William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

The art of advice is to make the recipient believe he thought the thought of it himself.

Frank Tyge

Practice yourself what you preach.

Titus Maccius Plautus, Asinaria

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

Many politicians lay it down as a self - Evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Lord Macaulay

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

Mediocrity does not see higher than itself. But talent instantly recognizes the genius.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.

Lord Tennyson

As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self - Destroying.

Arthur C. Clarke

Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self - Made laws.

Sir Richard Francis Burton

One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self - Criticism of a tired mind is suicide.

Charles Horton Cooley

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

On reflection, one of the things I needed to learn was to allow myself to be loved.

Isha McKenzie - Mavinga