Self Quotes

The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

Cicero

I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Economy.

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

Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.

Rita Mae Brown

Education must provide the opportunities for self - Fulfillment it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

Noam Chomsky

More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.

Uta Hagan

What you keep for yourself, you lose. What you give away, you keep forever.

Axel Monthe

Washington is like a self - Sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.

Dean Acheson (1893 - 1971)

I speak BASIC to clients, 1 - 2 - 3 to management, and mumble to myself.

Anon.

Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

Andre Maurois

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Hunter S. Thompson

Ful wys is he that can himselven knowe Very wise is he that can know himself.

Geoffrey Chauce

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self - Restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Anonymous

Help thyself, and God will help thee.

Jean de La Fontaine

I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.

Oscar Levant

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

Fred Allen

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

Whoever is open, loyal, true of humane and affable demeanour honourable himself, and in his judgement of others faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man.... such a man is a true gentleman.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I check myself every day just to make sure this is the same person.

Tony Kanal

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

Samuel Butle

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he who thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

C. C. Colton

Self - Respect is the fruit of discipline the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

Rabbi Abraham Heschel

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - - Nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933

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 good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.

Thomas a Kempis

Any effort that has self - Glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.

Robert M. Pirsig

It is noble to teach oneself, but still nobler to teach others - - And less trouble. - Speech, 1906.

Mark Twain

Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.

Alice James

If your house is on fire, warm yourself by it.

Danish prove

Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed: for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess.

Rene Descartes, Discourse on Method

In order to preserve your self - Respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.

Robert Byrne

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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

A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.

George Bernard Shaw

Frost You may wake up one day and find yourself extinct.

Blade

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.

Stanislaus