Self Quotes

There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.

Proverbs 137 Bible

When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser.

Whittaker Chambers

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

Amelia Earhart

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.

Mary Hemingway

We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and you must win.

Edward Gibbon

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Mark Twain

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, Have a nice day.

Peter Brodie

Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light.

Baltasar Gracian

Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

Samuel Adams

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

Aristotle, Politics

Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you and act accordingly.

Thomas Jefferson

Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? - A hoax fabricated by poets for their self - Importance.

Jean Anouilh

Think and feel yourself there! To achieve any aim in life, you need to project the end - Result. Think of the elation, the satisfaction, the joy! Carrying the ecstatic feeling will bring the desired goal into view.

Grace Speare

Unless you are prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.

Orison Swett Marden

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.

Lyman Beeche

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.

Albert Einstein

You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide - Sounding Zeus puts a good mind.

Homer, The Iliad

Experience shows that success is due less to ability that to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.

Charles Buxton

We are more wicked together than separately. If you are forced to be in a crowd, then most of all you should withdraw into yourself.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

Niels Boh

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

George Bernard Shaw

Everyone is in business for himself, for he is selling his services, labor or ideas. Until one realizes that this is true he will not take conscious charge of his life and will always be looking outside himself for guidance.

Sidney Madwed

One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one allows himself to be tamed.

Antoine de Saint - Exupery, The Little Prince

The greatist thing in the world is for a man to know how to be himself.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - Your ideal of what you long to attain - The ideal of health, efficiency, success.

Orison Swett Marden

I thank God for my handicaps, for through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.

Hellen Kelle

Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night

He that plants trees loves others besides himself.

English Prove

Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

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

Man is a make - Believe animal - He is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

William Hazlitt

Nature is wont to hide herself.

Heraclitus, On the Universe

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a world - wide depression all by myself.

Herbert Clark Hoove

Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

Mark Twain

To love oneself is the beginning of a life - Long romance.

Oscar Wilde